中國購買加拿大 新的房地產熱潮內幕

Paul Shen can tick off the reasons Mainland Chinese people buy property in Canada as surely as any fast-talking B.C. realtor.

保羅.沈可以和那些巧舌如簧的卑詩省房產中介一樣，羅列出一堆中國大陸人到加拿大置業的理由。

Some long to escape the fouled earth and soupy air of their country’s teeming cities he explains while others are following relatives to enclaves so well-populated by other Chinese expats they hardly feel like foreigners.

有些人是爲了逃離他們國家遍地開花的城市中污染的土壤和渾濁的空氣，還有些人是跟隨他們的親屬，來到這到處都是中國僑民，幾乎感覺不到身爲外國人的飛地。

The richest of course regard homes in the West as stable vessels for disposable cash but Shen lays no claim to such affluence.

最有錢的富豪當然是把西方購置的房子當成一次性支出的穩定投資，不過沈先生聲稱自己沒這麼多錢。

Last spring the 39-year-old left behind his middle-management advertising job in Shanghai to seek the dream of home ownership he and his wife couldn’t afford in their home city. “We just followed our hearts to begin a totally different life” he tells Maclean’s adding: “We can make the house dream come true in Canada.”

去年春天，這位39歲的男人放棄了他在上海的廣告公司的中層管理職位，來尋找他和妻子在家鄉無力承擔的夢中家園。“我們只是從心所願，開始一種全新的生活，”他告訴麥克萊恩，並補充道：“我們在加拿大可以實現自己的買房夢想。”