If you look past the razor wire decorating every gate and fence around every house or apartment, the better parts of Johannesburg might remind you of Santa Monica, Calif.

如果将家家户户门上和篱笆上的刀片刺网忽略不计，约翰内斯堡的部分高档街区或许能让你想起加州的圣塔莫尼卡。

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That's the home of the Santa Claus House, a Christmas-themed shop where parents can order letters from Santa with a North Pole postmark.

那里是圣诞主题商店圣诞老人之家的所在地，父母们可以在这家店定制由圣诞老人寄出、盖有北极镇邮戳的信件。

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But now he and his girlfriend, the writer Kathryn Chetkovich, live on Manhattan's Upper East Side for most of the year and spend summers at a house in Santa Cruz.

他现在和他的作家女友凯瑟琳住在曼哈顿的贫民区已快一年，目前正在圣克鲁兹度夏。

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His elf name is Snowball and claims to ham it up with the children, sometimes tumbling down the path to Santa's house.

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Yesterday, Snowball and I worked as Santa elves and I got excited when he started saying things like, I'd follow you to Santa's house any day, Crumpet.

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Twelve-year-old Jake Robinson lives in a recently remodeled Cape Cod-style house in Santa Monica, Calif.

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