Chinese New Year's Eve, Wu Jin's home in Wuqing was cleaned up, and the flowers and plants he had just bought decorated the house with vitality and a festive atmosphere. Struggling outside for many years, this was the first time he had spent the New Year in his own house.
He deliberately took his parents over, along with his unmarried girlfriend, and the four of them spent the New Year together. Wu Jin cooked it herself, and her mother made a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve meal for the whole family.
After graduating from university, I went to Beijing to work, squeezed the subway, lived in Yanjiao... Wu Jin experienced nearly 8 years of typical north drift life. In 2019, he and his girlfriend settled in Tianjin through the "Haihe Talents" program, and the next year they bought a house in Wuqing near the junction of Beijing and Tianjin. Although he still commutes to and from Beijing and Tianjin to work, he bluntly said that "my heart is solid and I have a sense of belonging."
(Wu Jin at work)
Say goodbye to the "three-hour traffic jam" of the north drift time
After the 90s, Wu Jin's hometown is in Yucheng, Shandong, and when he first came to Beijing after graduation, he worked for a financial company near Fuchengmen and lived in Tongzhou. Although there is no traffic jam on the subway to work, the experience of taking an hour and a half one way makes him a little unbearable. "I go to work on the west side of the city, but I live in the big east, and I commute for more than three hours a day." He recalled.
Too much travel back and forth, coupled with the inability to adapt to the work, less than half a year, Wu Jin quit his original job and came to a brand real estate company in Tongzhou to engage in real estate agency. Xiao Wu, who is active in thinking and down-to-earth, likes his new job, and his income is quite impressive because of the relatively active real estate transactions in the Beijing market, which has been seven or eight years, until now.
At that time, Wu Jin rented a house in Tongzhou, and it took only 5 minutes to walk to the company's store. But later, the rent reached more than 4,000 yuan per month, and like many colleagues or peers, he set his sights on Yanjiao in the east of Tongzhou, the same two-bedroom apartment, where it only costs 1500 yuan per month.
The depression effect has made Yanjiao a "sleeping city" for Beijing office workers. However, enjoying a lower rent, you have to bear higher commuting costs at the same time, and Wu Jin feels this deeply. Driving between Yanjiao and Tongzhou, it took more than an hour to drive at every turn, gradually making him physically and mentally exhausted.
Although the distance between the two places in a straight line is not far, there are many people living in Yanjiao, and the high-speed traffic is full of problems, and the speed of entering the city is even slower in the face of special circumstances. In order to avoid congestion, he sometimes had to get up at 6 o'clock to clean up and "go to work at the wrong peak". Remembering the experience of being blocked on the road for more than 3 hours, he still remembers it vividly, "Going out at 8 o'clock that day, the road was blocked for more than 3 hours, and the car did not move until more than 11 o'clock." "
Wu Jin felt that this was not the life he wanted, and he had to make a change!
Geographical distance is far Psychological distance
Learning about Tianjin's "Haihe Talents" talent introduction plan, Wu Jin and his girlfriend had the idea of settling down in Tianjin. The subsequent process was also very smooth, after completing various procedures, in 2019, they successfully settled in Tianjin and obtained the qualification to buy a house in Tianjin.
In April 2020, they spent more than 1 million yuan to buy a hardcover second-hand house in the Capital International Peninsula Community in Wuqing District.
On the day he first moved into his house, Wu Jin and his girlfriend were very happy, "At that time, I felt that I had finally lived in my own home, and I had that sense of belonging, and my heart was very solid." He said that another advantage of his house is that he can toss it as much as he wants, and he doesn't have to worry about it being broken here and there.
Their community is located at the junction of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and is quite far from Beijing and Tianjin. In Wu Jin's view, although the location is not very good, it provides a warm home for him and the vast number of young people struggling in Beijing, "According to my observation, most of our community is a Beijing spillover resident, and everyone is a young man working in Beijing, driving to and from the city." "
For Wu Jin, compared with Yanjiao, Wuqing's community is far from where tongzhou works, but the commuting time is shorter. The community is only 500 meters away from the high-speed entrance, and it can go all the way to the high-speed, and it takes more than 30 minutes to reach the unit when it is fast. "This is faster than those who work and live in Beijing, and some people take the subway!" He said.
Driving to and from Tongzhou and Wuqing every day, the high-speed fee plus fuel cost is about 50 yuan, but it is completely acceptable for him. In special circumstances, he can also take the commuter shuttle bus from the community to the urban area of Beijing, which is a benefit provided by the community to the residents.
At work, Wu Jin often leaves work late because of negotiating contracts with customers or handling related procedures, even until three or four o'clock in the morning. But no matter how late it was, he would drive home, which he said was his home. "I don't feel hard, I'm used to it, huh." He laughed.
(Places to pass through every day)
Feel the "synergy" of results and the temperature of the city
Living in Tianjin for nearly a year, Wu Jin's life and work radius is still dominated by Beijing, while his girlfriend is more at Wuqing's home, engaged in e-commerce-related work, has his own job and a good income, "the object is busier than me."
The supporting facilities of the community are becoming more and more mature, supermarkets, barbershops, pharmacies, bank outlets, there should be, and even the yoga, fitness and other places that the girlfriend likes have also opened one after another. "The neighborhood is nice and comfortable to live in", they like their home more and more.
On rest days, Wu Jin prefers to stay at home, pack up his room, wander around the garden-like neighborhood, or go shopping in a nearby supermarket, and sometimes they will drive to Wuqing City to eat food and watch movies. When they are interested, they will also go to a nearby town to catch a market, "a few dollars can buy a bunch of eggplant." "
They can feel the temperature of Tianjin more and more, "Tianjin is a good city, and it feels very efficient to go to the windows of various departments." Wu Jin told Jinyun News reporter.
In the seven years since the implementation of the national strategy for the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the effects of "integration" and "same city" in the three places have become more and more obvious, and the majority of residents have become beneficiaries, of which Wu Jin is one of them. He told reporters that he lived in Wuqing and worked in Tongzhou, and in the inadvertent changes in life, he felt that the boundaries and barriers caused by the administrative divisions of the three places were getting less and less, and it felt like living in one place.
Not far from home, he saw a number of big data projects from Beijing to Tianjin under construction, and saw that some startups were accelerating the construction of the bearing base, "These are all visible changes around, job opportunities have increased, the cost of living has decreased, and I think more and more people will come to Tianjin to work and live in the future." Wu Jin said.
On the one hand, regional development and urban change under the national strategy, on the other hand, there is the "small luck" of a small family.
Wu Jinnian nagged that the mind of the coordinated development of the three places should be further opened, "For example, the long-rumored Tongwulang Rapid Rail Transit, can it be landed earlier?" That way, it will be more convenient for me to go to work and take the light rail and then change to the Batong Line! He also looks forward to the early improvement of the kindergarten and primary and secondary school facilities in his community, so that he can live more steadily.
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(Wu Jin's first Chinese New Year's Eve meal at Wu Qing's home)
On the third day of the Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Wu Jin bought a small gift for his girlfriend, but did not send roses, "She thinks it is too wasteful to buy flowers, haha." This day was still on holiday, but he rushed to Tongzhou early in the morning to "start work", this year all over the place to encourage the New Year, many customers asked to take advantage of the holiday to see the house, he could not rest.
"Within the scope of ability, work harder, live well, and when you are young, you must fight on your own!" Wu Jin said with a smile.
Jinyun News reporter Chen Qingpu