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About 70 miles northeast of Vancouver is one of Canada's most beautiful tourist regions.
距離溫哥華東北方向大約70英里的地方有一處加拿大最美麗的旅游勝地。
Visitors come to enjoy fishing, skiing or the splendid mountain scenery.
各路游客聚集于此，享受釣魚、滑雪的樂趣，或欣賞壯麗的山景。
Over 20 years ago, Cursti Born, a successful businesswoman,
20多年前，一位名叫科斯提·博恩的成功女商人來到這里，
came here and founded Paradise Ridge, a cabin park.
建造了天堂嶺——一座木屋公園。
She said, "I wanted to live somewhere where everybody knows everybody else and all your problems are shared."
她說：“我想住在一個人人彼此認識，遇到問題可以共同面對的地方。”
Paradise Ridge is now home to 25 families.
目前，天堂嶺共有25戶人家。
Each family owns their own small cabin.
每戶人家都有自己獨立的小木屋。
But they share ownership of the park and the common facilities.
但他們共同享有公園以及公共設施的使用權。
This is a real living community and residents aren't allowed to use their cabins as a holiday home.
這是一個真實的生活社區，居民們不能把木屋當做度假寓所使用。
The heart of the Paradise Ridge community is a large house.
天堂嶺社區的中央有一所大房子。
Shared meals take place three times a week,
居民們每周在這里聚餐三次，
and once a month there's a meeting when important decisions are made.
居民們還會每月召開一次會議，并在會上做出重要的決定。
Families can sell their homes if they want to leave,
如果想要離開，住戶可以賣掉他們的房子，
but the whole community must vote on new families before they are allowed to join.
但新住戶入住之前，必須由社區全體成員進行投票，以決定其能否入住。
"Keeping the community together is hard work," says Cursti.
“保持社區的凝聚力并非易事，”科斯提說。
"Everybody has to take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the community,
“所以每個人都必須擔起責任，以保證社區的日常運作，
but it seems that there is no shortage of families who want to join.
盡管如此，想要加入我們社區的家庭似乎仍然絡繹不絕。
There are 75 on the waiting list."
如今還有75戶人家排隊等著進來呢。”
