驚!中國電影《北京遇上西雅圖》促美國西雅圖房產業蓬勃發展

The enormous success in China of a locally made romcom about a couple who find love in the US Pacific north-west is helping to spark a property boomin Seattle.

中國國產浪漫情感電影獲得的巨大成功推動了西雅圖房地產業的蓬勃發展，影片講述的是講述兩個年輕人在美國西北太平洋沿岸城市找到了愛情。

According to the New York Times, more than a third of homes priced in excess of $1m(￡613,000) in exclusive parts of the city and its suburbs are currently being bought by Chinese owners looking to move to America. They have been inspired by the area's good schools, clean air and established Chinese population, but many first heard of the city following the block buster success of Finding Mr Right, one of the highest-grossing films of all time in China after taking more than 500myuan ($85m) at the box office last year.

據《紐約時報》，目前想要移民到美國的中國業主正買下該市高檔區和郊區超過1/3定價高於100萬美元（613000英鎊）的房產。當地良好的學校條件，新鮮的空氣和已有的中國人口是他們移民到這裏的動力，但他們很多人是在《北京遇上西雅圖》這部電影獲得轟動性成功後才首次聽說這座城市的。去年這部電影獲得超過5億人民幣（8500萬美元）的票房收入，成爲中國有史以來創票房收入最高紀錄的電影之一。

"People my age in China suddenly started talking about Seattle," said Wang Bangze, a Beijing native who recently moved to thecity. "Seattle was a better opportunity for methan Chinaright now," he told the Times. "A lot of Chinese families are planning to movehere."

最近移民到西雅圖的北京人WangBangze 說，“在中國，像我這個年齡段的人突然開始談論起西雅圖。現在，西雅圖這個城市能給我帶來比中國更好的機遇，很多中國家庭正打算移民到那裏”。

Such is the popularity of the area withrich Chinese emigrants that local estate agents have begun hiring Mandarin speakers and feng shui experts to cater for the demand. Interest shows little sign of drying up–even though Finding Mr Right was in fact shot almost entirely in Vancouver, two and a half hours'drive north over the Canadian border.

西雅圖如此受中國移民者的歡迎，當地的房產經紀人已經開始僱用懂漢語的人和風水專家來迎合這種需求。移民者的興致並沒有衰退的跡象——儘管《北京遇上西雅圖》這部電影實際上幾乎是在溫哥華拍攝完成的，這裏距位於其南部的加拿大邊境有兩個小時半的車程。