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Text | Miki porridge
In 2021, I chatted with a lot of strangers with stories.
The person who remembers it most is a Shanghainese mother, whose life is particularly tangled. Living in a house of more than 20 million people, driving more than 1 million cars, but always sighing, their lives are very hard.
Even children can't read as much as they want. Before, in order to go to school, buy a house and sell a house, I chose the wrong way, and finally mixed up to only go to an ordinary school in Shanghai. Although the house also has a garden of hundreds of square meters, it is on the outskirts of the country and cannot look up in the circle of rich people.
In order to change this "dilemma" of life, her successful husband has prepared millions of children to study abroad, and she has been slow to make up her mind, on the grounds that she feels that the economic pressure is so great and there is no sense of security.
At that time, I really didn't understand that life was already so rich, how could I still have such a strong sense of embarrassment?
I recently read an article written by Maori and found that her sigh is not unreasonable, because 20 million houses in Shanghai are really nothing.
The house in Wutong District, Shanghai, is just a newly renovated single-bay room Xinli bungalow, two empty, butt large garden, patio is just a square meter... The price is 38 million. Some people say that this is still cheap, a little larger area, they ran to 5, 60 million.
How can there be such an expensive house? I have not lived in Shanghai, I can't understand the doorway inside, so I went to Baidu #Shanghai Wutong District# to know where this magical place is.
As a result, I found out when I saw it, where is the Wutong District? It's just the old town of Shanghai. The reason why it is called Wutong District is because there is a sentence in the "Shanghai Women's Picture Book": "Only where there is a plane above the head is Shanghai."
Look, no place with French plane trees is not Shanghai.
So when someone wonders if their 30 million net worth can enter the top 10 in Shanghai and become a superior person, the cruel answer is that as long as the assets are real estate, they can't do it.
Even if 20 million can buy a luxurious villa on the outskirts of Shanghai, in the eyes of some people, it may not even be considered middle class. This is very frustrating for those who pursue class progress.
The rich people in Shanghai don't like the feeling of the countryside, which is really different from Beijing.
The rich people in Beijing are more pragmatic, and will take out 30 million yuan to buy a house in the old city, only parents who buy school district houses for their children to go to school. This is not because of the lack of rich people who like literature and art, but the threshold of the courtyard is too high for ordinary people to afford.
But if you can't afford it, you don't have to struggle. You can go to Shunyi to buy a villa, the price is high or low, the abundance is frugal, and life is convenient.
Because living in the old city of Beijing is really not much better.
Rich people are piled up near the school district house, the road is narrow and it is difficult to park, and the point of picking up and dropping off children to and from school is a road. Even if it is a Bentley, it is useless not to have wings, and it is useless to carry the old scooter of the neighbor's uncle and aunt, see the stitches and needles moving left and right, and killing the MillionAire in minutes.
The streets of Xicheng at four o'clock in the afternoon belong only to Beijing uncles and scooters. So as long as you don't chicken, it's really better to live in the suburbs.
How pleasant life is in the suburbs! Once I went to the North Sixth Ring Road on a whim to see the house, more than 400 square meters of single-family house with a terrace, no one cares if you do BBQ at home, the cherries in the yard do not have to take care of the leafy.
Moreover, in the past two years, rich people in Beijing have increasingly liked to run to the countryside.
Last year, a friend moved, changed houses to the city's sixth ring suburb, within a radius of five kilometers there is only a supermarket of more than 200 square meters, two restaurants. It is said that one has recently closed down.
It is such a place, recently neighbors have been living in, she found the hidden dragon Crouching Tiger. Underground garage with millions of cars BMW Mercedes Benz Porsche, as well as all kinds of trots ...
But the amazing thing is that there are still many electric cars, bicycles, and even scooters for the elderly parked on the road. As long as it is convenient, what car is not driving.
This is probably the general mentality of living in Beijing.
I have a friend from a big factory, a tough yard farmer, who earns dozens of months' salary a year, puts his car at home and dusts up, and goes out to ride only electric cars and bicycles.
At first, I didn't understand it, I felt that he was also engaged in consumption downgrade with an equipment control, and then he also picked up and dropped off children to understand, what is the use of the car no matter how good it is, and it is better to find a parking space when going out than to put it in the dust at home.
Just like living in this city, the house in the old town is really not so tempting for the rich.
Before knowing a mother of several generations of old Beijingers, there is a house in Xicheng that does not want to return, only willing to live in Chaoyang, she said that her ambition for children's education is not big, unwilling to grievance herself to go to the old and broken, parking is not convenient, in and out of a small road at both ends of the blockage, the surrounding business only vegetable market, for her, is not a modern life.
Life is gone, what literature and art do you want? Moreover, the cafes in the old city of Beijing are all patchwork doors through the walls, and there is no literary and artistic style like Shanghai.
Lala miscellaneous said so much, in fact, I want to talk about how to digest the anxiety of the mentality.
Perhaps many of us are longing for wealth and fame, and disguises must also be mixed with the class. But the essence of life is still to "rest assured in the moment", a bit of practical spirit.
Before I traveled to Japan, I felt that their fruits (dim sum) were particularly exquisite. Chestnut cake is an expressionary chestnut doll with pink cherry blossoms in the shortbread.
Can't help but buy a lot, when eating a lot of disappointment, not sweet, or oil, not as fragrant as the jujube mud in Daoxiang Village. It is good to put it on, but the dim sum is not a decoration, and it is still necessary to eat in the end.
But there are always many people willing to live in the vain siege, trying their best to package a beautiful shell for others to see, "fake exquisite life" is just to please others for a compliment, it is really unnecessary.
The days are their own, and after a long time, you can know whether it is bitterness or pleasure.
Therefore, I hope that everyone has a good attitude in the new year, light loads, peace of mind in the moment, and happy life.