In 2019, the northeastern city of Hegang became popular because of the "cabbage house price", where tens of thousands of yuan can buy a suite.
A group of young people heard the news and left the big city to "build a nest" in this small eighteen-line city.
Among the young people who went to Hegang to buy a house, some people still run jobs across the country and return to their "home" in Hegang from time to time;
Some people only think of it as a place to stay, and three meals and one night are enough;
And some people want to put down roots here and live forever.
After 3 years, do they regret their original choice? What kind of life are you living now?
For better or worse
Or have to have a home of your own
There is a "wandering bar" in Baidu Tieba bar, and most of the bars are young people who are wandering in all directions.
Unlike the "Three Harmony Gods" who eat three days a day, the bartenders in "Wandering Bar" do not lose hope in life, but want to escape from the cage, more like a fugitive.
They are fed up with pressure from all sides and just want to let go of everything and wander.
Just like Tao Yuanming, the "originator of the Buddhist youth", he said that if he didn't do it, he wouldn't do it, and if he said that he would really go to the field, he would really go to the field.
In "Wandering Bar", everyone wants to become Tao Yuanming.
Li Hai is a senior bar friend of "Wandering Bar".
His hometown is in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, and his parents divorced when he was very young, and he has not been taken care of much since.
As an adult, he worked as a wanderer, working as a security guard and as a firefighter.
Later, he took the seaman's certificate, went to sea with the cargo ship, and took a half-year break for half a year, with a monthly salary of more than 9,000.
There was no family entanglement, and no girlfriend, which made Li Hai never have a special feeling for a place, and it was the same everywhere.
At the age of 31, Li Hai wanted to find a place to put himself.
Because of several moves, Li Hai felt the trouble of renting a house, and he longed to have a house of his own.
But the high house price in Zhoushan makes Li Hai feel desperate, and the average price of houses in the city center is more than 20,000, and the far one is more than 10,000 flat.
If you want to have a home, you can only find another place.
Li Hai began to search the country for cheap houses.
He has been to Yumen, Gansu, where the house price is frighteningly cheap, and a house of more than 60 square meters is only two or three thousand yuan.
But it was almost empty over there, there was no one, a large area of commercial housing was abandoned, and there was not even a small shop selling things around.
Some buildings do not even have water and electricity, and they have to run far to buy a dish, how to live?
Li Hai stayed for most of the day and left.
Later, he went to see the small town bordering Yunnan and Vietnam.
But it is too chaotic there, they all live together as a clan unit, it is difficult for outsiders to integrate, and it is easy to be bullied by locals.
Listening to others say that Hubei Enshi is good, Li Hai went to see it again.
But the house price is a bit expensive, three or four thousand one square meters, more than his budget.
Later, colleagues told him that Hegang was good, cheap, and suitable for living.
After disembarking from the boat in early May, he took a green car to Hegang.
On the 8th day of hegang house inspection, he signed a house purchase contract with a total price of 58,000 yuan and bought a second-hand house with 77 square meters of decoration.
The house is located in the center of Hegang, less than 100 meters away from the vegetable market, and there are schools and hospitals attached.
Li Hai was very satisfied.
He bought a new quilt, replaced it with an anti-theft door, and quickly returned to his hometown in Zhoushan to move his household and start to meet a new life.
Li Hai's new home's bedroom
The living room of Li Hai's new home
Chinese since ancient times, advocating living and working in peace and contentment, and having a stable residence of their own can be said to be the dream of everyone.
Although many people say that buying a house is too uneconomical, renting a house for a lifetime is cheaper than buying a house, and you can rent wherever you want to rent.
But after being beaten by society, I found that no matter how good the rented house was, it was limited by the landlord, and I thought that this was not my home after all.
Therefore, in the end, I chose to buy a house.
The more people who leave their homes, the more people who have struggled at the bottom, the more they long to have a piece of soil that can take root and sprout.
As Li Hai said:
For better or worse, you still have to buy a suite. Everyone wants a safe place to live and a home of their own.
Buy a house in Hegang
The wandering life of a group of young people
When buying a house in Hegang, Li Hai posted a live post in "Wandering Bar" to record the whole process of buying a house.
This graphic live post exploded at once, and many young people who were overwhelmed by housing prices in big cities exclaimed:
"It turns out that there is such a cheap house!"
Hegang, in this way, became popular on the Internet.
The average temperature in Hegang is only less than 5 °C throughout the year, and 80% of the local residents are old people and children, and there will be no one on the street at 90 o'clock at night.
The days of Hegang are like a frozen old-fashioned videotape, slow and repetitive.
But in the few years after becoming famous, there are still many young people who have abandoned the neon of big cities and come to this small city of eighteen lines in the northeast to "build a nest".
With different accents and loads with different stories and hearts, they set off from all over the country and gathered in Hegang.
Only because, in Hegang, they can at least have a solid barrier, a small space that belongs only to themselves.
Dia, 32, has been living in Shanghai before, doing vocal training, commercial performances and other music work.
When he was single, he lived in a 17-square-meter house, and after getting married, he and his wife rented a one-bedroom and a living room of more than 40 square meters, with a monthly rent of 5400 yuan, accounting for most of the income.
At the beginning of 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, the training class was closed, the commercial performance could not be received, and Dia's income fell sharply.
He took his daughter-in-law to Hegang and spent 45,000 yuan to buy a 50-square-meter second-hand house.
On the first night of the official check-in, the original owner moved all the furniture away, not even the bed.
Dia thought about going to the hotel for one night first, but the daughter-in-law disagreed:
"We all have our own homes, what hotel do we stay in?"
So the two of them made a bunk with their coats, and there was nothing to cover, so they lay down and slept for one night.
At that time, the heating was nearing its end, and it was freezing in the middle of the night, but Dia and her daughter-in-law still felt very happy.
They slowly add furniture to the home, and the empty house gradually becomes a home, and Dia is satisfied:
"Every object added is for oneself, not for the landlord, not for others."
Items added by Dia
Due to signing a brokerage company in Shanghai, Dia could only run at both ends of Hegang and Shanghai.
When they need to record, they run to Shanghai, and on weekdays, they teach students musical instruments and vocal music in Hegang.
Dia said: "Many people say that Hegang is not good, but for me, this is not a retreat, but my Garden of Eden. ”
Dia and her daughter-in-law are at home
Hua Hua had been in Guangzhou before, and when she got off the train, even if she wore a long and thick down jacket, she was still too cold to bear.
At the age of 11, she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis.
Due to the lack of timely treatment, the flower spent less than 70 pounds at the age of sixteen or seventeen.
Later, the family gave her a blind date and introduced a single stick in his 30s from a neighboring village.
Hua Hua couldn't accept it, and when her family gave them the opportunity to be alone, she hid a kitchen knife under the quilt.
In the end, Hua Hua quietly left home and traveled to most of China, doing a lot of work.
Now, she is an online novel writer, writing 10,000 words a day, and she can get 20 or 30 yuan per 1,000 words.
After hearing about the house prices in Hegang, she didn't hesitate to come.
She bought a two-bedroom rough house, more than 40,000, and almost spent all her savings.
Although there was no money for a good renovation, although the house was somewhat empty, the flowers felt like home.
(Chinese New Year's Eve meals, flowers and flowers, invited a few girls who live nearby)
She put up a sign on the wall in front of her desk, "You're going to be quiet and sharp, and then amaze everyone."
She also adopted a cat, took care of it, ate and drank, and lived with it.
Flower-raised kittens
There are many people who come to Hegang to buy a house, they all have their own stories and have their own experiences in Hegang.
Zheng Qian, a Guangdong native, started shooting videos and uploading them to the Internet after buying a house in Hegang.
Sprinkle hot water into the air, and instantly condense into ice in the weather of more than 30 degrees below zero;
Wrapped in a thick down jacket lying flat in the snow, her legs swinging happily like a wiper...
Slowly, his fans grew, and some people asked him to buy a house in Hegang.
Today, he is already the number one blogger in the field of hegang real estate, with tens of millions of videos viewed.
He even opened his own real estate company, selling an average of one apartment a day.
Zheng Qian
Li Liang, who has lived in Shenzhen for 10 years, has been living a solitary life, living alone, eating alone, and going to the hospital alone.
She bought a house in Hegang and rented a house, and wanted to renovate it before moving in.
Since she hadn't seen her parents much since she was a child, she didn't have much of a concept of home.
The house in Hegang is just a residence of its own.
Li Liang
Li Hai, who brought fire to Hegang, still does not like to socialize.
He created the "Outsiders in Hegang" group, but rarely spoke in the group.
Most of the time, he's still alone, not looking for a girlfriend, and not having many friends.
After the accident of his father, who was also a seafarer, he did not intend to be a seafarer anymore.
He has a white long-haired dog, very lively and very fond of eating.
He gave it a boy's name—"Little Kai."
Li Hai and Xiao Kai
Of course, there are many who come and go.
Xu Kang, a native of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, has been working in Lhasa for many years and earns five or six thousand yuan a month.
When he saw on the Internet that 30,000 yuan could buy a house, he did not hesitate to come to Hegang to buy a set.
At first, he wanted to find a job in Hegang, but the salary was too low, so he decided to return to Lhasa to work, only occasionally to stay in Hegang for a few days.
Later, affected by the epidemic, Xu Kang lost his income, 30,000 yuan of the house bought, 20,000 pieces sold.
Everyone who lives seriously
All deserve to be taken seriously
After coming to Hegang, Dia wrote a song for the city:
Fled the north to Guangzhou
The yearning to die drunk
Come to the strange and confused Hegang
……
No one has ever panicked you again
Slowly dismantle the illegal heart wall
Even the wind and rain will make it devastated
Unlike the life we see in the circle of friends, in Hegang, we see another way of life.
For them, instead of pursuing happiness in a big city that may not be possible in a lifetime, until they become the fuel of a big city, it is better to come to Hegang and live an ordinary and ordinary life in such a small city.
In the big cities, it's a different story.
Young people go out of their hometowns and strive to be on the front line of their posts and work hard for the beauty of tomorrow.
They are willing to 996, willing to use countless overtime hours in exchange for a wonderful life in the big city.
The jury is still out on which the two are good or bad.
As long as you live to understand and clearly know what you are trying to do, it is good.
Life has expectations, the road in front of you will be clearer, the pace under your feet will be firmer, and the ordinary life will be enriched by this.
In the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Messenger of the Rings, there is a classic line like this:
We can't choose our destiny, but we can choose how to live our lives.
Everyone has their own life.
Some people want to sleep until they wake up naturally, and don't have to run for money.
There are also people who are born to love fullness, like to be busy and busy, and they don't stop for a moment.
Some people said that they wanted to retire to the countryside, live in the yard, and cultivate fish in the fields.
As long as you insist on loving what you love, then you can always get the confidence of life.
The Mid-Levels Anthology says:
The grinding wheel of life is very heavy, you think it is crushing you, but in fact it is teaching you delicacy and helping you present the details of life, so as not to let you spend this life too roughly.
Grapes are sour and sweet, and life has ups and downs.
We may not enjoy the best material conditions, but we must always retain the truest love of life.
Take everything in your life seriously, discover the beauty in it, and you'll always get unexpected responses.
I hope that we all become better people in the process of trying to live.
Author: Shuangmu, post-90s, slow time columnist, think seriously with reason, and live quietly with attitude. Half in the shade and half in the sun. Source: Slow Time.