"Yards are concreted over or paved, open space is built on, and people won't sweep the staircases," he complains. In his experience the farther developments are from the city the dirtier they tend to be, with piles of rubbish everywhere and open land seriously misappropriated, "but the Chinese attitude always boils down to: The environment's ghastly, let's move away!"
「只要有院子就鋪上水泥、磁磚，有空地就擴建，寧願關起門來享受，不願意掃一下樓梯間」，他說，根據他的經驗，越郊區的社區越髒亂，垃圾隨便堆放，空地被佔用的情形相當嚴重，「而中國人一向採取的對策是：環境不好，再搬家嘛！」