More about my trip to New York and New England

Something more about my New England and New York trip:

1. Flushing, the Chinatown of Queens, is a much nicer one than the Chinatown in Manhattan.
2. GPS is sometimes not helpful when the highways and freeways are twingled together. It is particularly evident in Queens and Long Island, where the drivers are not courteous at all and the exits was like there is one every 1/5 miles.
3. Long Island is a white-denominant regions. In Maryland, you expected the people who are serving you in a restaurant or a car dealer are African, but in Long Island, you cannot really see any one of them.
4. Connecticut is really a boring place except New Haven. We bypassed the cities Bridgeport and Hartford, which are industrial cities that we decided there is nothing interesting to see. New Haven is a very nice town, but I heard that the southern part of New Haven is like College Park in Maryland – not safe. Willimantic, with the name being the “frog city”, is a rural area like my hometown in Huiyang twenty years ago. (Well, I think my hometown is better.)
5. Rhode Island is nice, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Hence I am not surprised why there were so many tycoons building luxurious mansions on the island of Newport. Then I heard that Cape Cod, a region in Massachusetts that is not far from Newport, is also such a place as Newport. While looking at the photos of Providence, the capital of Rhode Island, that we did not bypass, I would believe that Rhode Island is a good place to settle during the summer time at least.
6. Americans suck at construction. They have too many laws to pass and obey in order to build something. While in Hong Kong, it takes one or two years to build a highway or railway, the city of Boston spent ten years to build their underground highway. World Trade Center was fallen in 2001, but right now you can still see their site with a lot of construction, with subway running in their underground.
7. New York City is an international city, as you can see in their subway. In Los Angeles, you can only see English, Spanish and Chinese in their subway; but in New York City, you can see English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Russian and a lot more. But the translation is believed to be done by some translation programs. The hilarious example below is just one of the very many inside their subway train.