"Even if I sleep on the street in the UK, I won't go back to China" Hong Kong female teachers are dissatisfied with the system, give up more than 40,000 monthly salaries, and leave Hong Kong in a rage......
In 2021, Fiona, a female teacher in Hong Kong, came to the UK with her husband through a migration scheme. From the moment they landed, they had legal British status.
But it also means that they have to renounce their Chinese citizenship, and the reason why the couple did so has an important relationship with their lives in Hong Kong.
As a female teacher in Hong Kong, Fiona has a monthly salary of more than 40,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is converted into more than 30,000 yuan. This is considered a high-income group in any city.
And her husband also has his own business, and his monthly income is about 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the couple together have a total of 70,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, which is definitely not a poor person in Hong Kong.
But even so, the couple's life in Hong Kong is not satisfactory, because the land is expensive and the land price is extremely high, so their monthly salary and savings are not enough to support them to buy a larger house.
The couple can only live in a 20-square-meter hut, and in addition, they have to take out some money every month to hand over to the Filipino maid, because the two of them don't know anything about laundry and cooking, and usually rely on the maid to help them take care of their lives.
In the long run, Fiona naturally became resistant, and she felt that it was obviously a bit bad for her to live like this for the rest of her life.
At this time, she accidentally saw the talent immigration information released by the UK on the Internet, and she found that she and her husband met the criteria in this information, so she tried to submit an application to the immigration bureau, but she didn't expect the application to be approved.
Fiona told her husband about this, and the two agreed to go to England after discussion, and before leaving, relatives and friends had dinner with them to say goodbye.
Fiona's parents still looked at Fiona with great concern, hoping that she would stay in China, because they knew that life in a foreign country was not easy, but Fiona felt that she would only be better off when she arrived in England with her talents.
So she said, "Even if I sleep on the streets of England, I won't go back to China." At this time, Fiona didn't know what kind of life she would have after arriving in the UK.
After landing in the UK, Fiona and her husband first stayed in a hotel, thinking that they didn't need to rush to find a job and a place to live, they could have fun first.
But after four or five days, they realized that the price of the hotel was very high, and it was definitely not a good idea to live in it for a long time with their savings, so they took out some of their savings and rented a cottage in a more remote place.
Although the house is a bit bigger than in Hong Kong, it also brings more problems. The first thing to solve is the diet of the two.
They are usually busy with their own work, and their cooking skills are almost zero, and now that there are no servants, they can only go to the supermarket to buy a lot of fast food to fill their stomachs.
Even so, the two of them did not feel bitter, and still felt that the future would be very bright. But a few months later, they had a slap in the face.
First, Fiona's husband wanted to get a local driver's license, but was rejected by the driver's license school because of the language difference. Fiona herself also wanted to go back to her old profession in the education industry, but when she confidently went to the local school for an interview, she was rejected by the principal. In the principal's opinion, Fiona's educational qualifications are not applicable to them, and Fiona needs to retake the exam.
This is bad news, because even if they had the heart to learn Xi language and become a teacher, their savings would not be enough to support these activities.
In order to be able to eat enough to survive, the couple can only put aside all prejudices and go to odd jobs. Eventually, Fiona got a job as an assembly line worker in a gingerbread man factory near her home.
The daily work was boring, far less interesting than the previous job, and the money she earned did not allow her to live the life she wanted, but now she had no other choice to make a living.
And her husband, who did not have a driver's license, could not do the original job in Hong Kong, and he had no other work skills, so he could only rely on food delivery to subsidize his family.
But even though life at this time is not as good as before, facing the media camera, Fiona still said that she does not want to return to China, but many people can see that she may have regretted it at this moment.
Sometimes, the moon in a foreign country always looks relatively round, but if you rush forward without considering your own situation, I am afraid that you will only lose in the end.
