The first two chapters talked about real estate, and I feel that everyone has quite different opinions on this matter.
Let’s talk for a few words... Let’s talk about my own feelings.
Let me make it clear first that I am not advocating anything. What I write is my own experience of living for nearly 40 years.
Real estate is something that more people criticize than praise.
Housing prices are too high, squeezing out the living space at the bottom, and causing various social problems. Basically anyone can talk about the disadvantages of real estate, because these are closely related to everyone's life.
I also complain that housing prices are too high, but if you say that real estate has many harms but no benefits, I really don’t agree. Because my current life is also closely related to the development of real estate.
I was born in a small county town. When I was a child, Hong Kong movies were always played in the video halls on the streets. Subconsciously I thought... wow, Hong Kong is so developed, with so many high-rise buildings. Hong Kong people are really happy, and their lives are better than ours.
much better.
At that time, it was very cool for someone to have a relative from Hong Kong.
I have been living in Shenzhen since I graduated from school. After living in Shenzhen for more than ten years, I have no intention of returning to my hometown.
Why?
The most intuitive feeling that a big city is a big city is that there are many houses, wide roads, and convenient life. Of course, housing prices are also ridiculously expensive.
I only visit my hometown once every few years. In the past few years, I have also begun to lament that the small county in my hometown has suddenly changed so much. All kinds of residential buildings have popped up, and housing prices have also risen. It also feels very outrageous.
Moreover, there are many people in the county who come to work in the county from villages below the county level. These people often open small restaurants and other businesses to make a living. They work from early in the morning to late at night, which is very hard.
But if you want to ask whether these farmers from the countryside can afford to buy houses in the county town? I dare say that with their income, they will feel that the house prices in the county town are too expensive and they cannot afford it.
Since I think housing prices in big cities are expensive, why don’t I go back to a small county?
Since farmers who move to cities feel that housing prices in county towns are expensive, why don't they go back to the countryside?
I think when I ask this question, all complaints become meaningless.
Why?
Because big cities have the conveniences of big cities, with more job opportunities, more income, and better supporting facilities, which are much better than those in small counties back home.
If you can't make it in a big city, it will be even harder in a small county.
If you can't make it in the county town, it will be even harder to go back to the countryside and work in farming.
We have been on the road to large-scale urbanization in the past 20 to 30 years. Urbanization means building houses, building bridges and roads, supplying electricity and water, developing transportation, communication services, hospitals, police, and solving problems.
A series of issues related to food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Solving these problems will provide huge jobs. Otherwise, when we graduate millions of college students every year, who will hire them? Who will pay them? Who will enable them to make money to support their families, get married, and have children?
In addition to college students, we also have a larger number of migrant workers. How much money can these people make digging soil in the fields? Don’t they just want a better life? Don’t they have the right to enjoy the benefits of national development?
How many employment problems for ordinary people has the express delivery industry solved? This is the job of two million people. This job does not require a high degree of education, a strong body, or being handsome, and it only requires an elementary school education or above
Culture can be done if you have some brains.
A courier can earn four to five thousand a month if he works hard, but it's just hard work. But you can earn money with hard work, so many people are still willing to do it.
If urbanization had not made the population highly concentrated, if our cities were scattered and small like those in foreign countries, if there had not been convenient transportation between cities, would we have been able to enjoy "free shipping from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai"?
If the job of express delivery cannot be done, can you imagine how these two million people will live?
Many people complain that real estate has original sin, saying that it allows a few people to make a lot of money and the majority of people become housing slaves. However, if real estate is not developed and urbanization is not carried out, the lives of many people will not get better, but will only get worse.
Just twenty or thirty years ago, rural people tried every means to obtain an urban household registration, tried every means to live in the city, and tried every means to make a living in the city.
In the 1980s, how many college students wanted to stay in big cities like the Imperial Capital after graduation? After enjoying the convenience of big cities, who would want to return to their poor and miserable hometown?
Hometown is a feeling, not a reality.
The memory of the hard days has not gone away, I still remember it clearly.
We are all enjoying the great development of real estate and the benefits brought by large-scale urbanization, but naturally we have to bear the disadvantages it brings. But looking at it now, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages.
Some people have made a fortune because of real estate. Just make a fortune, not everyone can be Wang Sicong's father...
Housing prices are high, so be it. We can't live without big cities anyway.
If you feel depressed about this, then read a novel to entertain yourself, have a barbecue, drink a bottle of beer, complain a few words to your friends, laugh at yourself a few times, and then go do whatever you have to do.
Some people become rich before the age of twenty, I am almost forty and have just made it through my early years, and some people will be mediocre throughout their lives. But we still have to live.
It's pointless to be jealous of others, and it's even more pointless to complain and feel resentment. Everyone's path is different. Working hard, making money, and changing yourself is the right thing to do.