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我刚刚移民来美国的时候,对我所居住的社区非常满意,因为它与耶鲁大学融为一体,环境宁静优雅,我不知道邻居们是否有钱,但是他们至少是白领,体面的邻居和整齐的住宅,使我认为我至少住在一个中产阶级社区里。但时间长了,我对我的邻居们有了一个意外的发现。就是我的美国“本土”邻居们的手头之紧,往往超出中国人,要看花钱的做派,似乎美国人比中国人还穷得多。我们的一位邻居朋友,父亲是一个顶尖名校的校长,年薪达50多万美元。她们姐妹二人,都受过名校的教育。自己还拿到博士学位。姐姐的夫君是一位著名物理学
When I first immigrated to the United States, I was very satisfied with the community in which I live because it is a peaceful and elegant environment with Yale University. I do not know whether the neighbors are rich or poor, but they are at least white-collar, decent neighbors and tidy So I think I live in at least one middle class neighborhood. But for a long time, I had an unexpected discovery of my neighbors. It is the closeness of my own U.S. “native” neighbors who often go beyond the Chinese to see how they spend their money. It seems that Americans are much poorer than the Chinese. One of our neighbors friends, father is a principal of a top elite, annual salary of more than 500,000 US dollars. Their sisters and two, have received elite education. I also get a doctorate. My sister’s husband is a famous physics