Contemporary young people after graduation, more than 70% of graduates will choose to go to the big city to fight, because in their cognition, they are well aware of the gap between the city, in terms of their future employment, career development, home ownership is very different.
Full of expectations for the big city, with high expectations and high hopes. If you don't have an idea of what life in a big city is like, most people are familiar with life in a small county.
Inconvenient transportation, a very slow pace of life, in the evening is out walking and square dancing grandma and grandpa, in the small county life is not very stressful, but as a young person, there is a kind of inexplicable sense of rejection.
So many people choose to go to the big city to pursue their dreams, the first moment you step into the city, you feel that everything here is good, here are more job opportunities, here are the most cutting-edge knowledge of the industry, here are 24-hour convenience stores, here are their favorite star concerts.
So he vowed silently in his heart, "I must put down roots here and never go back."
Working here for 1 year, 2 years, slowly began to realize that the reality is not as good as I had imagined when I first came here, and my expectations for the city and for myself are not as high.
The high rent and cost of living has caused many people to keep moving and updating their rental addresses, trading long commutes for lower living costs. The money in their pockets is always paid out, paid back and continued to be owed, always in circulation but never in savings.
And whether you live in a small county or a big city, there is always a common problem, always feel that they are not as good as others, just like the phenomenon of the "walled city" where people work in the system, the people inside always feel that their lives are not as good as those outside, but those outside are envious of the people inside, and they are desperately trying their best to get to the inner circle. The first is that it is not possible to get a good deal of money from the government, but it is possible to get a good deal of money from the private sector.
I don't know if you've ever heard of such an example, but those who earn more than 10,000 dollars a month in the north always feel that they can't compare with the life of those who earn 3,000 or 4,000 dollars a month in third-tier towns, and feel that they call it life, and that they are just surviving.
And even if they feel that their work life in the big city is not as good as that in the small city, they will not immediately roll back, talking about envy, but in action is no performance.
What is the reason behind this?
Is it that you don't know the big city well enough, or is it that you have too many misconceptions about small counties?
In fact, we are from the general environment, in recent years, some of the south of the new first-tier cities to attract young people's ability to continue to grow, there is no doubt that for young people, the preferred employment city is either a first-tier city or a new first-tier city, the reason why some people monthly salary of 3,000 people have to die to carry in the big city, there must be a reason behind this.
Everyone is saying that the pressure of this generation of young people is greater than anyone else, can not rely on hard work like the 80's may still be able to achieve financial freedom, can not be like the 70's to seize the opportunity of the times, seize the wind will be able to realize the financial freedom of the majority of young people of this generation, the two can not be accounted for, can only rely on their own.
For young people working outside, many people have no choice, they come to the city is to make money.
There are no resources, no background, no connections, everyone is backwater, unlike life in the county, there are family members and relatives to help, will not seem so strenuous, but in the big city, they have and only their own, they can only rely on themselves to achieve the reversal and turn the tide.
Previously on social networking sites, I saw a netizen with an annual salary of 300,000 share:
"Now I have a little more than 20,000 in hand each month, a mortgage of 8,000 a month, a car loan of 3,000 a month, the rest of them still have to pay for the life of a large family, an annual salary of 300,000, although it seems to be a good thing, but it is still living in a strenuous situation. When the children are older, all kinds of expenses will grow exponentially."
"University students all think they are very beautiful, but the cost of living to the naked eye visible rate of increase, but their own income to a large extent has reached the ceiling."
Where you feel scenic may be exactly where many people want to escape.
On the contrary, you may feel that life in small counties will be much less stressful, the pace of life is slow, the industry is slow to develop, giving a feeling of slow life, but the truth behind the slow life is that, in addition to the cost of living in small cities compared to the first-tier cities a little bit lower, the price of goods and what is actually not low, the cost of living in fact, did not reduce a lot.
Those who always feel in the small county mixing work, can easily realize buy a house buy a car, must not have experienced the small city life of people, small cities, although the monthly salary of 5,000 has been not low wages, but prices are still the same high.
To give a very simple example, you in a first-tier city every cup of milk tea more than ten dollars, in a third-tier city the same milk tea will also be sold more than ten dollars, he will not change because of your salary less.
The level of economic development of a place, and the local income level is positively correlated, the big city although there is a higher salary starting point, but the same rent you feel terrible, small cities although not so high wages, but match the price level, and will not allow you to easily realize the purchase of a house and car.
We come back and calculate with you how much income you need to have in order to live a decent life in a small county?
First of all, we have to set a framework for a decent life: a car and a house, food and clothing, no worries, no pressure on the basic education of the children, free money on hand, is considered to be a petty life.
Take their own hometown, a small city in the third tier, housing prices in the 10,000 to 15,000 or so, the down payment in the 20-30 million, according to the income level of the majority of people, do not eat and drink need 2-3 years, in addition to eating and drinking and other costs probably need to save a 4-5 years, the monthly payment is probably needed in about 3,000 yuan per month.
Additionally to talk about buying a car, generally are 200,000 price point to start the car, if the loan, the monthly payment will also be in the 3,000 yuan or so, even if two people each 5,000 yuan a month, but also the same can not live a decent life, coupled with the future of the child's education and support and other costs, although not starving, but have to tighten their belts to live.
Small counties and big cities, in addition to housing prices, the difference may be greater in the transportation, work intensity, human relations, these trivial and pervasive factors.
Those who are unwilling to bear these pressures retreat to small counties, while the more ambitious desperately try to stay in big cities.
People who are used to living in small cities will feel that the city's health care, education and other things are within reach, these are things that they can actually grasp in their hands, and small cities have a strong sense of human feelings, and the people who live here have a sense of humor and know how to live.
On the other side of the spectrum is the big city, with its freshly ground artisanal coffee, 24-hour convenience stores, and concerts by favorite stars.
For many young people, even if the big city has good infrastructure and better education and health care resources, many people actually can't enjoy it in the end, because the cost of settling down and buying a house is very high, and the experience of working and living in the big city is just a part of life for most people.
But then again, whether it's a small town or a big city, it's ultimately a matter of personal choice, and we can't judge the right or wrong of a choice based on results, because if it's just a matter of results, for the majority of people, the choice of a big city will ultimately result in a return to their homes.
The big city has its prosperity, but most people are carrying heavy loads, while the small city is relatively stable, but there are many people who want to jump out of the comfort zone. People are like this, never satisfied with the status quo, always progress, but many people do not know in which direction to progress, I hope that every decision you make, the goal is clear.
Slowly learn to accept the gap between the ideal and reality, there is a gap is not terrible, there is a gap is the truth of society, down-to-earth, do what you think is right, stick to the end, even if it is a period of experience, is also worth recalling.