Why do people who drift north generally choose to live in the suburbs?

In summer, my friend came to my house for the first time, and when he stepped into the community, he was amazed. I didn't expect there to be such a quiet place in Beijing, like a paradise.

Yes, this apartment is located in the villa area. I pay a property fee of 5 yuan per square meter and enjoy the treatment of the owner of the adjacent villa.

In summer, there are lush trees and flowing water in the community, and fish are changed regularly in the pool. Even if a few leaves are dropped, someone will patrol and clean them. Once my husband was fiddling with something in the kitchen, the smoke alarm went off, and the property immediately went to the door to ask if he needed help.

Old people are rarely seen walking their children in the community, but young people in sportswear are often seen taking dogs out for running. Maybe all the people who live here are middle-class cats and dogs? In short, the whole community gives people a sense of coldness and alienation.

This is what I want.

I was very proud when I first moved in. Think about it, I don't have to go to work, so the only subway line, the nearest stop is three or four kilometers from my home, can be ignored automatically.

I don't have children either, so there isn't a decent preschool education class within 0/0 km of Fiona Fang/KLOC in Fiona Fang, and there are no good kindergartens and primary schools nearby, which is also for my consideration.

Give me a network cable and I can stay at home forever. I can make money and spend money online with one click. Is there anything better than this?

I spent the whole summer lying in bed pretending to be dead.

Go out for a walk in the morning, read and write during the day, play on the sofa at night, hold a bag of junk food and laugh, hahaha. You see, happiness is that simple. Why should human beings be miserable by their prosperous and complicated desires?

But this simple happiness didn't last long. When autumn first came, I found myself at the bottom of the valley.

02

Friends who work in the city are discussing which fashionable restaurants have been opened, who has just been to Morocco, or a niche designer brand has new products ... even taking a photo of drinking coffee with my girlfriends in a circle of friends will make me jealous.

I seem to be abandoned by the whole world.

Living an isolated life in the country is like putting yourself on a tower. Every time I go to town, I will come down from my tower and return to earth. It takes a long time to do psychological construction.

Yes, making an appointment with friends in the city may be as simple as going out to a convenience store. I have to go out two hours in advance to avoid traffic jams, so I still choose to take the subway. I haven't arrived at the date, my makeup has been spent, my feet are numb, and my good mood is gone.

Therefore, I have fewer and fewer friends. Some have been dating for half a year, but I still linger and refuse to finalize the specific time. No wonder many friends have been too lazy to talk to me in the last six months.

I have a strong vanity. After dinner with Professor A, Investor B and Writer C, I reported peace in the group half an hour later and arrived home. I'm in a hurry on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. What should I do? My home is still 20 kilometers away. So often before getting off the highway, I followed Baoping in the group, and I arrived.

Every time I lie, I feel distressed and want to hold myself tight.

03

Don't tell me that all the rich people live in the suburbs. Rich people move from cities to suburbs, which is a real consumption upgrade for tens of millions of single-family villas, and most of them just come for vacation on weekends. We poor people move from the suburbs to the cities, which is our unswerving goal in life.

And I sadly found that unless my husband makes a fortune one day, I may not be able to afford a house in the city in my life.

A few days ago, someone was particularly surprised to ask me, since you have become the official account of WeChat, can't you afford a house in Sanhuan? I'm kidding. I am such a fashionable and exotic little princess. If I had the money to buy a house in the city, I would still live in this big suburb.

Oh, I was wrong. There are birds and frogs in the suburbs. In summer, I fall asleep listening to frogs every day, as if I were a poor child.

So I had to comfort myself: the prices in the suburbs are cheap, the vegetables are fresh and there are few people.

Yes, there are only two convenience stores within walking distance, so there is nothing to choose from. Picking up the last two bottles of yogurt from the shelf, carefully rummaging through the production date and looking back at a few dried grapefruit, the mood is also complicated.

Vegetables are very fresh, because nearby farmers have opened an old big market, and every Thursday and Saturday they bring their own vegetables and radishes to the market to sell. At the beginning, I swore to my husband that we would live a green and healthy life and cook by ourselves every day.

So, the two men went together to catch several episodes, buying meat and fish and 5 yuan and 3 bundles of lettuce, rape and chrysanthemum. They were so happy that they realized the freedom of the vegetable market. Until one day, I wore new white shoes to the market and stepped on a piece of shit. ...

The ambition of cooking was thus doused.

04

Writing a manuscript is a common occurrence. When inspiration is delayed, it is common for me to jump up and down in the study and scratch my head and drop the mouse. At this time, my husband came over and asked me what to eat for lunch. Will I have a good face?

Depressed because if you order takeout, you can deeply understand the loneliness of living in the suburbs. Online celebrity restaurants will not open to my suburbs. When you are hungry, you can only choose Shaxian snacks, crossing the bridge rice noodles, braised chicken, rice and red lady jiaozi.

What to eat? Whatever.

My husband asked with trepidation, do you want me to take you to the cafe to write? Maybe inspiration will come.

He drove me ten kilometers to the center of Changping District. There's still no Starbucks. Well, then go to costa. I won't choose. After parking in the basement and happily pressing the elevator upstairs, costa was quite quiet, but there was not even a power strip.

I hold my computer bag and feel wronged like a kannika nimtragol.

My husband said on a whim, then go to the library and have a look. Maybe it has a different taste. There are still many books to read.

Ok, we went to Changping Library and got a library card on the self-service machine. He successfully paid 100 and got the card, but I couldn't handle it. I went to the manual service desk to ask. It turns out that I got a card in Haidian Library, so I just need to swipe that card.

But when have I been to Haidian Library? I've racked my brains to find my whereabouts for nearly ten years. No, I don't even know where Haidian Library is. The aunt at the service desk shrugged, so why don't you ask Haidian Library?

Check Baidu map, 30 kilometers. Forget it.

Breathing the fresh smog in the suburbs, we finally came to an earthy cafe called Milan Xidian. I won't write. I'm going to open the skylight again today.

05

Straight men seem to have been emotionally stable and asked me cheerfully, is this the cafe you often come to when you are a graduate student?

There is a feeling of being beaten back to its original shape in an instant. I came to Beijing to study in university in 2003 and have been wandering around Changping. Up to now, 15 years have passed, and I still haven't escaped from the clutches of the suburbs.

The suburbs are depressing.

On the streets of Changping, you can't see elite girls in CBD wearing Chanel suits at all, and it's hard to meet business men in suits and high-grade perfumes. Even the code farmer of Xi 'erqi wearing a plaid shirt will not appear here.

Only dusty streets, confused college students and local aunts with Beijing accent. No one cares if you are 90 kg or 120 kg, and no one cares if you are eccentric or a coach.

No comparison, no stimulation, no desire.

But this winter came, and I seemed to be activated. I suddenly realized: Do I want to be a suburban person all my life?

Don't! Set yourself a small goal from today. I want to go to town! ! !