I ask because fate has treated these two towns, separated only by the mouth of the Tanshui River, very differently. Tanshui is celebrated in poems, songs, paintings, and lovers 'memories of its scenic views. Pali has donuts, mussels, a garbage landfill, and troubles which have yet to be revealed to the outside world.
因為，命運對待這隔水相望的兩岸似乎不太公平，淡水鎮，有的是詩、是歌、是畫、是情人流連忘返的場景；八里，有的是甜甜圈、孔雀蛤、垃圾掩埋場、和一堆未向世人揭露的滄桑。