Have you bought a house in another country?
How long has it been since you went back to your hometown for the Chinese New Year? With the opening of the Spring Festival, one of the largest "human migrations" has begun.
Recently, many friends who have worked and lived in other places have returned one after another, and many colleagues and friends have returned to their hometowns. At various hearth gatherings, people who have taken root in different places jokingly call themselves a new generation of "urban migrants", although it is not easy, they insist on their choices for better employment opportunities or a better living environment.
Among them, the most topical is the matter of "buying a house", some people are quite attached to "house", and some people are not so careful.
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Five days before Chinese New Year's Eve, Xiao Wu, who works in Hangzhou, took annual leave in advance, and the family of three got on a plane back to Dalian. He said that this is the first time in nearly three years that he has returned to his hometown for the New Year.
In the three years of epidemic control, many places have advocated "celebrating the New Year in place", considering the old age of parents at home and the inconvenience of returning to their hometown, the Spring Festival in the past three years, Xiao Wu's family spent in Hangzhou, and this year it was released, "finally you can take your children back to your hometown to get together with your parents."
Xiao Wu said that his family has changed a lot in the past three years, and one of the big things is to buy a house in Hangzhou, which is completely settled.
According to him, from Yuhang and Linping to Dingqiao, the sub-new houses and second-hand houses in Sandunbei, and even to Cuiyuan and Chaohui's "old and dilapidated", they have all been seen, and there is a long list of real estate agency names in the WeChat address book. In order to buy a house, it took a year, and the biggest emotion was that "it is not easy to 'immigrate' to Hangzhou with children." ”
"At the beginning, I thought about coming to Hangzhou to buy a small house first, and then slowly change it when my children went to school, so I didn't think about off-plan housing and wanted to choose a second-hand house with a school district. After looking around, I found that the house prices in Hangzhou are several times more expensive than ours. Our ordinary houses in Dalian are about 100 square meters only two million, can be three generations in the same household, the total price of houses with similar conditions in Hangzhou is at least five or six million, both to meet our needs, but also to afford the cost, I looked at no less than 30 suites. ”
Xiao Wu recalled, "The old communities with better locations are very old, the apartment types are very small, the total price is suitable, the larger houses are all in the 'suburbs' of Hangzhou, and I dare not think about a good house in the school district, and finally repeatedly measured and bought a second-hand house in Dingqiao." ”
In his view, the difference in housing prices between cities is acceptable, as long as it can really take root and grow with the city, the dividends of urban development can always be enjoyed.
According to Xiao Wu's plan, if he works in Hangzhou for a few more years and his children are older, he will consider changing to a bigger house, and then he will take his parents from his hometown and settle around.
He said that many of his friends have similar choices, "Since it has 'come out' and is developing well, let's completely 'immigrate'." ”
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The family of Xiaoting, a Hangzhou "indigenous" working in Shanghai, did not buy a house and "take root".
Although both children are studying in Shanghai and Xiao Ting is also qualified to buy a house, Xiao Ting's family has not yet bought a house, preferring to spend tens of thousands of yuan a month to rent a "mansion" of more than 200 square meters. A friend once "heartbroken" about her choice: "Don't use the room ticket?!" Make money when you buy a house in Shanghai! ”
Xiao Ting, who has lived abroad, does not think that "house speculation" is the only way to appreciate assets, in her concept, the house is mainly used for living by herself, to meet her daily needs.
Xiao Ting wrenched her fingers and calculated: "Our two children plus parents and their own couple, the house is less than 180 square meters is not enough to live, if you still want the lot and school district to be good, the budget in Shanghai is at least 20 or 30 million, where can you buy it casually?" And I don't want to sacrifice my quality of life just to speculate a house. ”
In fact, this is not Xiao Ting's first rental life, when the family returned to Hangzhou from abroad, Xiao Ting did not go back to the house she bought to live, but rented a large house in Qianjiang New City, for the same reason, "my own family is not enough to live, and it is too late to change houses."
Xiao Ting said bluntly, "I have been wandering abroad for many years, and I may be accustomed to the 'immigrant' life, so I don't have the habit of buying a house and putting down roots in any city." ”
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There are also friends who choose to constantly say goodbye to everyone, change to a city life that really suits them, and then take "buying a house" as an "anchor" for their life stability.
Less than three years after graduation, Xiao Lu followed a friend from Beijing to work in another first-tier city, leaving Beijing because of the high cost of living and better job opportunities in other cities, so Xiao Lu resolutely left.
In the more than a year of working in the new city, Xiao Lu is still a little dazed, "I am very busy at work every day, I don't have the opportunity to meet more friends, you all say that the scenery here is good and the life is rich, but I don't have much time to visit, I want to buy a house here, the threshold is too high, not only expensive, but also limited purchase, there is always no sense of belonging here." ”
The year before last, Xiao Lu left his job to go to a second-tier city in Jiangsu and bought a house at the end of last year, he said, "Now I really feel like people here." ”
"Although the new job is also very busy, but the cost of living and housing price threshold here is what I can afford, in order to really put down roots here, I gritted my teeth and bought a house, so that the work also has motivation, otherwise it will always be 'floating', and my mind will not settle."
In Xiao Lu's life blueprint, he can start a family here in the next year or two and make this his "second hometown".
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Since 2017, the battle for talent between cities has been in full swing. Statistics show that by the end of 2021, the country's floating population will reach 385 million, and many cities such as Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Xiamen, etc. have become popular choices for "urban immigrants", and "new immigrants" have also become the main force of new home buyers in these cities.
Although it is a very personal choice to buy a house or not, it also reflects the development pattern and future potential of different cities.
Every city carries the life plan of "new immigrants" for the future, especially the costly purchase of a house, which is a vote made by everyone with their feet, which is not only a life choice, but also a microcosm of an era.