There is a classmate who came home after ten years abroad.
When his family sold a house to send him out of the country, he returned home and found that the house sold in that year had already exceeded 10 million yuan.
And he, too, couldn't afford to buy the house back.
Like countless young people working in Beijing, 28-year-old Ben, is busy working and getting off work every day, spending most of his time at work.
One day passed, the sunset red the whole sky. This is a rare and short-lived good time for Beijing, warm and cold, even the much-criticized haze has dissipated. After a day of work, he has just emerged from the tall buildings, and is going to plunge into the traffic jams.
Ben, a Beijing native who returned from abroad, is still huddled with his parents in a dozens-square bungalow near Nanluo Drum Lane.
As an aboriginal, returnee and only child in Beijing, Ben's life should be more comfortable. But now his family also faces the same serious problem as most Beijing drifters: buying a house.
Most people may wonder how you a Beijing aboriginal can not have a house, home to sell a random set, minutes tens of millions of hands.
Ben's parents were paid nine to five, and there used to be two houses in the family, one where his parents got married and the other that Grandpa had left for Ben to marry.
But later in order to allow Ben to go abroad to study, ten years ago, the family sold their parents north third ring 85 square wedding house, with 2 million yuan, moved to the small house now south gongs and drums lane to live.
The reason why Ben didn't sell the room was that his parents took into account the school problems of future grandchildren. And thinking, Ben was about to go abroad, and the couple thought they could make up for a few years, and then earn a lot of money to buy a new house when their son came back.
Six years later, Ben returned to Beijing with two diplomas; however, after four years of work, he suddenly found that they could not afford to pay the down payment of 85 yuan in North China's third Ring Road.
Sell the house and send the child abroad, but the child is unable to buy a house when he returns
Home ownership and sense of security are vulnerable to high housing prices, and studying abroad has long faded back to home for most salaried families.
On the contrary, like Ben, ten years of youth are running out, and there are plenty of young people who still need to carry on.
In this era, in the face of higher education is increasingly open, diversified, international, many families choose to send their children abroad to study, among them, there are more and more working-class families.
However, the expensive cost of studying abroad is still the most important burden for the families of overseas students. And for the working class, it is very likely that this is a sum to spend all its efforts.
Family savings can not meet the huge tuition fees of studying abroad, but "studying abroad" and "tide of going abroad" make many parents feel that as long as their children can study abroad and receive elite education, they will be able to become a dragon and Phoenix after returning home.
In this way, everyone sold houses, borrowed money, finally sent the children out of the country.
However, it was unexpected that the children who had learned to return home did not become what their parents expected: "they have no money to buy a house in a first-tier city, nor do they have a high-end job." Like, Ben..
According to data from the China study abroad Development report (2016), "people returning home for employment are piled up in first-tier cities," and the first-tier cities here refer to the north, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
Such a choice is not difficult to understand.
A large proportion of international students, like Ben, come from first-tier cities such as North up, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Moreover, for the returnees who have just returned home, the big cities are in line with the international standards, and the development speed is fast. No matter what major you study in these cities, you can find a place where you can do your best.
This is why they did not escape from the "north up and wide deep".
But the cost of living in first-tier cities is also growing, and the high housing prices, which are now criticized by the population as a whole, are adding to the pressure.
In Beijing, for example, second-hand home prices in Beijing have risen nearly eight times over the past decade from 5,999 per square to 47,000 per square now, according to Sohu News.
It's not hard to understand why "if we didn't go abroad, we'd be multimillionaires".
The Ben home, which was sold in 2 million, is now worth 16 million, while Ben, an ordinary white-collar worker who now earns $ one hundred and twenty thousand a year, will have to eat and drink for nearly 134 years before he gets back to the house he sold.
In this way, whether it is Beijing drifters or overseas returnees, they are also facing the trouble of high house prices.
In the face of such sensational data, these overseas students, the elite education of the new generation of returnees can not help but produce problems, expend the strength of the family, cross the sea, after leaving their hometown to learn to return, why so low with the rate of return?
According to a set of data from the report of the 2016 China returnee Employment Survey, "in terms of monthly income after tax, the income range of the respondents is concentrated in the range of 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan, accounting for 46.9 percent." Only 26.4% of the respondents had a higher starting salary for their first job than the domestic students who joined the unit. "
This kind of income can not help but make people dare to fight, in the end, after all these years of uprooting from the home is not worth it?
In front of housing prices in Beijing, returnees also have to bow their heads and spend four years in the United States studying market-related majors. After returning home, they have finally found a major-related job.
Like many young people who have just graduated to work, the city of Northland carries a dream, life is almost full of work, two o'clock and one night, crowded subway stations, empty roads after overtime, are all in this era. The background of the lives of young people out there.
In the work, the little flower is diligent and earnest. But not long, the boss discovered her problem-English planner wrote all kinds of 6, as soon as to the Chinese planning on the shell; And their company's main customer base is young, Xiao Hua's Chinese planner is always overflowing with veteran cadres to do the wind, every minute can board People's Daily.
This thought after internship to give Xiao Hua promotion boss, now also had to let small flower continue to stay in the original post slowly honed study.
Brilliant experience of studying abroad, in the workplace actually hit the wall. The frustration and confusion of the flower is conceivable. No matter where you come from, and where you will go, every window with the lights on at night is like a mirror, and it's going back to reality, as if it were a young man or a young man, and the lights of the skyscraper seemed to be flourishing, but cruel, no matter where you came from, and where you would go, and every window with the lights on at night was like a mirror.
Such a situation is not a few. The 2016 report on the Employment of returnees in China has also made statistics. Sixty percent of returnees returning home are in basic posts, which is not the ideal high-end job.
However, the small flower in the workplace, we put ourselves in the think, it is not difficult to understand.
If you are the boss of the company, facing a returnee who has worked abroad for a period of time but does not know the rhythm of the domestic workplace, you will give him a monthly salary of more than ten thousand after tax all at once?
And young returnees from foreigners, just returned, in the domestic industry has not accumulated a good network. Their seniors and seniors are either in the United States, or they are just entering the workplace, trembling and treading on thin ice.
Perhaps, the era of returnee background with heavy weight has passed, and now that the international students return to work, the competition faced by domestic students is basically similar to that of domestic students. What's more, most young people do not have a reasonable plan for their future careers, and it is not hard to understand that they will run into a wall in the workplace.
When the weight that initially thought it would add to the competition for survival is losing ground, many people may wonder why we didn't stay in the United States in the first place.
"the average house price in New York's metropolitan area in the first quarter of 2015 was $381166, or about 2.3 million yuan," according to Zillow.
From this point of view, this average price can only buy a house in Beijing five Ring Road. And Beijing five Ring Road outside the living environment, but can not compare with the New York Metropolitan area.
However, not to mention whether this data is objective, whether or not to stay in New York after graduation, to buy a house, to enter the current of real life, whether to stay in a foreign country, or learn to return, life itself is not easy things.
Whether the value of studying abroad is equal to that of a house? The difference between Beijing and New York is the culture, the crowd, the nationality, the language, but the sharpening and testing that survival brings to young people is generally the same.
Whether you decide to return home or stay in your home country, whether you are a hot-blooded teenager or a professional driver, life is not as good as you think.
House prices are rising, we are also growing, countless people come, and countless people leave. The people of North Shanghai and Guangzhou still can't afford to buy a house, the days are still steady day by day, the people who struggle never slacken.
Perhaps you can speculate that if you have not gone abroad, you have spent enough over the years to keep your food and clothing safe. But the final life to face, graduation, work, face competition, face house prices, life all sorts of puzzles, will arrive as scheduled.
However, it is certain that if that way, you will not be who you are now.
Bewilderment or entanglement. As the saying says, now you have every way you go, every book you have read, everyone who has loved you. This matter, in the life of the imprint, are indelible and precious treasure.
Face-to-face encounter with life, do everything once ready to be cleared, adjust the mentality, life is a journey to experience peaks and valleys.