"Even if you work as a beggar in the UK, you don't want to go back to China" A couple in Hong Kong gave up their monthly salary of more than 70,000 and immigrated to the UK, but after they arrived, the women worked as assembly workers, and the men went to restaurants to serve dishes and wash dishes.
In 2021, a Hong Kong couple immigrated to a small town in the northwest of the United Kingdom. In a place of only 80,000 people, the couple owned a two-story villa for the first time.
This was something they didn't dare to think about before.
As early as Hong Kong, the house where the couple lived was much narrower than this, and with the addition of Filipino maids, the four lived in a toilet-sized house.
"It's hard to lie there and stretch your legs." This is what the little couple feels most humiliated.
His wife Fiona is 31 years old and teaches in Hong Kong with a monthly salary of 40,000 Hong Kong dollars, and her husband Aman is a bus driver with a monthly salary of 20,000-30,000.
In this way, the highest salary of the two can get 70,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, but in Hong Kong, they have not been able to have a comfortable house of their own.
This is one of the reasons why the couple decided to immigrate to the UK.
In addition, my son and daughter are growing up day by day, but they don't have their own rooms, and whenever children of the same age want to come to their home, the space that is not spacious enough cannot be received, so they can only refuse.
Over time, the son and daughter also became troubled by this, which strengthened the couple's decision to emigrate.
In 2021, the Fionas sold their property in Hong Kong and moved their family to the UK, owning a 2-storey villa.
But soon after moving in, they encountered their first trouble.
When I was in Hong Kong before, the family was cleaned up by Filipino maids, but now I have moved to England, and there are no servants to help with housework, and the big house looks disorganized.
Because the two of them were busy at work at that time, and then the company in Hong Kong was enough to hire a Filipino maid of 70,000 Hong Kong dollars a month.
Now in England, neither of them has yet found a suitable job, and they are still eating old money, so they have not hired a servant, which is sad for them.
Although I bought a lot of ingredients, because neither of them could cook, the meal made for several days seemed to be a dark cooking.
The chores at home have not yet been cleaned up, so the couple thinks of going out to work, the wife is temporarily at home to take care of the children, and Aman goes outside to see what work is available.
In desperation, Aman had to communicate with the British in his broken English, only to find out after some explanation, because the official visa had not yet been issued.
There is no way, the family of four can only stay at home and eat Laodi, but soon, three months have passed, the situation has not improved, and the couple is becoming more and more anxious.
They have spent more than fifty thousand pounds and so far have not scored a penny.
At this time, Fiona could no longer bear it.
So she decided to give up her self-esteem and work as a pipewer in a gingerbread factory, while her husband went to a restaurant to help people serve dishes and wash dishes.
When she was at home, she was a highly educated teacher, but abroad she became an assembly line worker, a huge gap that made Fiona feel uncomfortable.
In a foreign country, life is not going well, all kinds of problems follow, visas, renting a house, communicating in English, shopping, handling housework, taking care of children...
All this weighed on Fiona, and her husband often argued with her over trivial matters.
In just a few months, 31-year-old Fiona seems to be more than a teenager, her face is haggard, and her blue silk is covered with gray hair.
Later, the couple's lives finally got on track, Fiona was still working as an assembly line worker, and Aman became a delivery boy, delivering food 6 days a week, about £300 a day, and earning nearly £1,200 a month.
I wonder which is more comfortable than the previous days as a teacher in China?
But when reporters interviewed Fiona and his wife, Aman said a controversial sentence: "Even if you are a beggar in England, you will not return to Hong Kong to become emperor." ”
I don't know why, they think that even being a beggar in the UK is fragrant?
Is rent too expensive in Hong Kong? Then after coming to England, they finally had spacious houses. Or maybe Hong Kong life is too fast-paced and stressful.
But no matter what, it is their choice in the end. Whether you are a teacher or a worker on the assembly line, it is just a job.
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