"Hsichih's development has long been stunted by poor transport links, and the 1987 floods in this low-lying area brought property prices tumbling down," explains Hsiung Shu-hua, who when house-hunting here once studied the local property news so assiduously she could practically reel it off backwards by heart.
「以前因為對外交通不方便，阻礙了汐止的發展，而且這裡地勢低，容易淹水，民國七十六年就因為一次大淹水，造成房地產狂跌」，自稱去年為了買房子，常常注意各種公共建設的資訊，幾乎到了可以倒背如流地步的熊淑華分析。