Australian immigrants are bursting.

"After so many years, I have done two things, giving birth to children and getting divorced."

Zhou Jian sat in a slightly old house in North York, Toronto, and the sunset shone through the shutters, bringing a little light to the originally unlit living room. Zhou Jian lit a cigarette, and the smoke gradually dispersed. In the evening, his face became darker and darker.

Zhou Jian said that if he could choose again, he would not immigrate to Canada.

If there were no immigrants at the beginning, Zhou Jian would not have quit his job with a monthly salary of nearly 40,000, would not have a second child, would not have sold his house in Beijing, and more importantly, would not have divorced in his thirties and would not have slipped from the middle class step by step.

However, life is an out-of-print movie that cannot be replayed. Suddenly looking back, one shot gradually passed through the light and shadow, but never returned to the original.

emigrant

In the year of immigration, Zhou Jian was 3 1 year old. Although only in his early thirties, Zhou Jian has already entered the middle class early. After graduating from college, I have been working as a pharmaceutical sales manager in Beijing. The worst time before going abroad was 40,000 a month.

In 2006, housing prices in Beijing were still very cheap. Zhou Jianhe and his wife bought two suites, one in the urban area and the other in the old palace between the South Fourth Ring Road and the South Fifth Ring Road.

Zhou Jian admitted that his self-confidence was bursting at that time. When my brother is short of money, he often gives tens of thousands. At that time, he never thought that one day he would need his younger brother to help him. Zhou Jian and his wife occasionally had frictions, but they all passed under mutual tolerance.

However, immigration changed everything.

Why do you want to emigrate? Nothing more than for children's education, for a cleaner environment, safer food and better security. If there are other reasons, it may be because people are naturally curious about another way of life.

In the summer of 2007, Zhou Jian and his wife quit their jobs and moved to Canada. They chose to settle in Toronto because "I heard that there are more job opportunities here than in Vancouver". In fact, more than half of the new immigrants made the same choice as Zhou Jian.

After the initial novelty, the annoying reality began to surface: where to find a job? It is impossible to continue to engage in drug sales. Zhou Jian tried to find a job where he could work in an office. After searching through various channels for half a year, no company is willing to quote him. In desperation, Zhou Jian went to a moving company to sell his physical strength.

However, only two months later, Zhou Jian resigned. When moving workers are very hard, they earn about 10 Canadian dollars per hour, which is about 1600 Canadian dollars a month, which can be converted into 1000 RMB according to the exchange rate at that time.

Some new immigrants from small cities in China have a higher acceptance of working as laborers because their pre-migration wages are only 3,000 yuan and 4,000 yuan. But for Zhou Jian, who earns 40,000 pounds a month in China, it is much more difficult to cross this psychological threshold.

When life returns to zero, Zhou Jian can't find his position and is surrounded by a huge psychological gap. He began to stay at home and gradually closed himself off.

divorce

Zhou Jian wanted to go back to China, but his wife strongly opposed it. Besides, children like Canada and don't want to go back.

Time passes in contradiction and hesitation. For Zhou Jian, returning to China is more and more like a distant dream.

"Go back, how to get back? The original customer resources have been lost. "

After a year of training, Zhou Jian's wife found a professional job with a monthly salary of more than 3,000 Canadian dollars, but this did not make Zhou Jian happy, but increased his depression. At home, he earns much more than his wife, but after going abroad, he has to rely on his wife to earn money to support his family. The positions of the two are completely reversed.

Zhou Jian's words are getting less and less, and the rift with his wife is getting deeper and deeper. Even if his wife makes a scene because it is difficult to communicate with him, he doesn't talk much.

He suffers from severe depression.

Zhou Jian was tortured by despair and pain every day. He could no longer face his wife and asked for a divorce again and again. The wife didn't want to leave, shed tears and tried to keep the marriage in various ways. Both sides were exhausted.

The two finally parted ways in the spring of 20 1 1. April is the cruelest season, and Canada in Zhou Jian's eyes has no color.

Sell a house

After the divorce, Zhou Jian returned to Beijing, sold his two-bedroom apartment downtown and remitted the money to his ex-wife in Canadian dollars. The ex-wife used the money to buy an apartment in Toronto and live there with her eldest son. The blow of the breakdown of marriage once made her miserable.

There is also a house in the old palace in Beijing, which is the only asset and family property after Zhou Jian's divorce. Speaking of this house, Zhou Jian's lonely expression was mixed with some comfort: "The house is quite big, 130 square meters."

However, Zhou Jian regretted a decision made on 20 12.

That year, Zhou Jian's depression improved and he decided to do something in Toronto. After investigating several small businesses, he aimed at small laundries.

In order to raise money for the laundry, Zhou Jian had no choice but to sell his house in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The final selling price of the house is about 18000 yuan per square meter, which is much higher than the original purchase price of 5000 yuan per square meter.

Zhou Jian also considered buying a house in Toronto, because he sold the house and exchanged more than 2 million yuan in cash for Canadian dollars. But the reality before him is cold: if you buy a house, you will have no money to open a laundry; If you run a laundry, you can't afford a house.

Zhou Jian finally decided to take over a laundry. After a period of operation, the monthly net profit of this laundry has stabilized at several thousand Canadian dollars, which is enough to support myself and my youngest son, but I can't save more money to buy a house.

In the case of ultra-low interest rates, the housing price in Toronto has increased by more than 70% in the past five years, but the increase is obviously "dwarfed" compared with Beijing. Zhou Jian never imagined that after two rounds of inflation last year and this spring, the market price of the second-hand house in Beijing Palace he sold was close to 55,000 yuan/square meter, which was three times higher than when he sold it.

"Lost more than 5 million." Zhou Jian sighed.

This more than 5 million RMB, if converted into Canadian dollars according to the recent exchange rate, is about 6,543.8+0,000 Canadian dollars. Zhou Jian had to work in Canada for decades to save enough money.

Zhou Jian, who is in his thirties, still rents a house in Toronto. He said that every winter he spent in Toronto was very cold.