I have been living in the city, but I want to rent a yard in the countryside for retirement. Is it reliable?

I really want to go to the countryside to rent a house or buy a house to live in and live a pastoral life, but there are so many stories about rural areas that people who have lived in cities all their lives cannot understand. Here is a popular saying: There is no way to go back to the countryside, where the road is slippery and people's hearts are complicated: This is the true words of migrant workers. People in cities who do not have a high social status are better off not to go. This is advice.

It’s very reliable. The premise is that you must have a healthy body.

Reliable, let’s make a promise first, after we all retire. Come to my house, I will give you two acres of land and help you find a courtyard house. There is no shortage of anything in the countryside. Our family has tap water, deep well water, and shallow well water.

We have farm machinery, water pumps, and small tractors. I will help with plowing, planting, and harvesting. You can plant vegetables and flowers, drink tea, chat, write poems, and draw pictures. For cooking, we have free gas, natural gas, and firewood pots in rural areas. There is a water heater for bathing, which is currently lacking in popularity in rural areas. Don’t be afraid that the difference in medical treatment in rural areas is 120 and 20 minutes. You can live in the city until you can’t work anymore and then return to the city to retire.

Do you want to raise chickens or ducks in the countryside? Do you want to grow watermelons or cotton? As long as you are not afraid of exerting your strength, you can dig ditches and ponds by the village as you like. After digging the ditches and ponds, you can plant lotus flowers. Once the lotus roots are planted, you can water them frequently. Only when there is water can the fish be released. If you want to come to the countryside, you should make an appointment early. After more than ten years, I will find a house for you regardless of men or women. Don't be afraid of farmers gossiping. What else do you want when you are over sixty? There is nothing I can do about it. I am not praising the countryside, but the countryside is short of money. There are only a few acres of land per capita, so it is difficult to make a fortune no matter what you grow!

Ideals are good, but very unrealistic because there are a lot of inconveniences. Time will tell.

Reliable, Zhong Nanshan still has many people under retirement age. Like the fishing village in the picture, which is close to the mountains and the sea, there were many retired people who came here to live in retirement more than ten years ago. They rented out their houses and rented here (some of them bought one in the early years). I know a couple in their 70s. Duohe, a couple in their 80s, had lived here for more than ten years in 2017.

So it’s very reliable. It all depends on personal preferences and physical and financial conditions. The current annual rent for a courtyard (two or three bedrooms, that is, the size of three main houses) in the village in the picture is RMB 4 More than 50,000.

This question varies from person to person. If you like rural life, it is okay to have this idea. Nowadays, there are many vacant houses in rural areas. Renting a yard to grow flowers and vegetables, and raising a few chickens and ducks to be self-sufficient can be achieved. You can exercise and eat your own green vegetables, killing two birds with one stone.

In order to raise my grandson, I lived in the provincial capital for more than 20 years. Now that I am older, I want to live a quiet life, so I returned to the countryside two years ago, renovated my own retirement home, and grew flowers and vegetables. Lived a carefree pastoral life.

Nowadays, with the revitalization of rural areas, water and electricity are connected, hardened cement roads are connected to every household, and the Internet is fully covered, which is still very convenient. Nowadays, there are many healthy elderly people in their 70s and 80s in rural areas. Maybe it has something to do with the environment. If you have this idea, give it a try.

Okay. Find a place with mountains, water, and charming scenery, raise chickens and ducks, grow green vegetables, fruits, and live a fairy life in paradise. How beautiful!

Regarding this issue, I would like to tell you from my own personal experience.

I have been living in rural areas since I was a child until I graduated from junior high school.

Therefore, rural life has left an indelible mark on my life.

Later, because of my study, I kept pursuing higher education, so I gradually fell away from the rural track.

After graduating from college, I lived and worked in Shenyang for ten years. There, I had memories of my youth. Later, I married a Shenyang native and had my own marriage.

Later, due to my ex-husband’s work relationship, I followed him to Shenzhen, where I lived and worked for eighteen years.

In 2015, I got divorced and started living alone.

As we all know, Shenzhen is a city where young people gather, with a fast pace of life and high work pressure.

I once opened my own handicraft shop in Futian, which lasted ten years.

After the divorce, I gradually came up with the idea of ??going to the countryside to live a slower life.

Later, business income dropped year by year. By the end of 2019, the epidemic hit. Although I closed the store, I still owed credit loans.

As a result, my desire to move to a rural area where consumption levels are low and where self-sufficiency can be achieved became even stronger.

At the beginning of 2021, I went for a walk to Wanwei Golden Beach in Fangchenggang, Guangxi, and stayed there for about ten days. I wanted to rent a house in the local countryside.

My idea at the time was: The local area is a coastal tourist area close to Vietnam. Can I weld my crafts into the local economic chain and live my pastoral life while doing my own thing? career.

But unfortunately, because I could not find a suitable house at that time, I left there and went back to my hometown in Northeast China for a while, and then returned to Huizhou, Guangdong.

I have a house in Huizhou, which I bought for myself after my divorce. I am still paying off the mortgage.

One cannot be idle because my situation does not allow me to do so.

So five months after I withdrew from Shenzhen, I found a teaching and training institution in Huizhou, rented one of their classrooms for manual teaching, and worked as a painting teacher in the institution.

I will continue to do this work until the lease of my handicraft classroom ends at the end of 2021.

At the end of the year, I saw on BOSS Direct Recruitment that a farm in rural Huizhou was recruiting teachers, and the salary was not bad, so I contacted the farmer.

I went to the farm to inspect the farm for two weeks. In the end, the work agreement was not reached, but irregular cooperation is possible.

The boss also introduced me to a landlord in this village. He also has some houses that can be used for cooperative training, activities, etc., and I also have the opportunity to enter the primary school in this village to teach manual work. In this way, I am there In the countryside, you can have something to do every day.

Under this premise, I moved to rural Huizhou at the beginning of this year.

I thought I could go to school to teach after the Chinese New Year, but the school informed me that they had reached a cooperation intention with an education company in Shenzhen, so my plan to enter the school fell through.

Immediately after the outbreak of the epidemic, although the local area is a 4A scenic spot, tickets were stopped selling, and almost no one came to the village. It can be said that my development plan there was hindered.

I have lived in the countryside for two months, and almost all my plans to connect with reality have come to nothing.

So I thought about whether it would be feasible to go back to Huizhou and use my house to provide after-school painting and handicraft classes for children in the community?

So I moved back to my home.

However, in the past few days, the owners of the community have issued notices prohibiting gathering activities, and even outsiders are prohibited from entering the community.

Even my previous training institution is now closed.

On one side is loan pressure, and on the other side is the epidemic with no end in sight.

What should I do? Now I was forced to start writing a novel.

If you can’t do it offline, try it online!

Writing novels only requires ideas, no consumables, no matter the venue. Anyway, you can write with a mobile phone.

All that’s left is to strengthen the practice of writing techniques and cultivate the endurance to keep writing.

Life has beaten me thousands of times, but I treat life like my first love.

As for rural life, I think I will go back.

There is an environment that I like, and there is farm work that I like to do. When I can repay the loan normally and have a little bit of surplus for living expenses, the countryside is a place I want to stay for a long time.

If you have money, leisure, a good body that can work, a good mentality, and a rich heart, the countryside is actually a good place to go.

By growing your own vegetables and flowers, and raising some small animals, you can exercise your body and be self-sufficient. Your body and mind will be nourished by nature, you will be in a good mood, and you will live longer.

But not everyone is suitable to live in rural areas.

Economic independence, people are relatively self-reliant, able to take care of themselves physically and in daily life, mentally strong, able to adapt to emergencies, etc. Anyway, the stronger the ability, the faster they will adapt to rural life.

In fact, if you have such qualities, you can live well anywhere.

It’s just that some people have a persistent longing and beautiful yearning for rural life.

My suggestion is that you can stay for a short period of time to experience it immersively, and then continue to adjust your understanding of rural life until you can live without barriers in the countryside. It is not too late to live there permanently.

It is recommended not to sign a ten or twenty-year rental contract as soon as you go to a rural area.

Stay rational and exercise restraint. No matter where you live, it is survival of the fittest.

There are many snakes, mosquitoes, rats, and ants in the countryside. I was suspected of being bitten by ants a few days ago. There were many red and swollen bumps on my legs and waist, which were extremely itchy and scratched many places.

Think about whether you are willing to live with this situation.

I think you can advance step by step into the life of your dreams.

Everyone has their own actual situation and inner demands, whether it is suitable or not, and whether it is reliable or not. There is no single answer. Only by putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and experiencing it in a personalized way can you know whether you are suitable for rural life. .

The above are my most real feelings and experiences after living in the countryside for two months. They are written for reference only.

I wish you a smoother realization of your dreams. All that’s left is to start taking action on your dreams!

You have to live there to know whether it is reliable or not.

At the very least, you need to have an understanding of the local customs and customs of the place you plan to rent to see if you can adapt to them; and also learn about transportation, hospitals, vegetable markets, and natural disasters.

When renting a yard for retirement in rural areas, it must be relatively far away from the county town or market town. It does not require a building, but a bungalow with a yard, so that you can grow some vegetables, so that you can better experience rural life.

The idea is good, but the reality you have to face may be cruel.

Winter is very cold, there is no heating, and the ground is cold. Can you adapt to it? In summer, rainy weather increases and the land is very moist. The blankets and other warm things you cover yourself feel a little damp to the touch. Do you have rheumatism in your legs and feet? Can you adapt to diseases and joint inflammation? Can you adapt to the night environment, where there are mosquito bites, rats, weasels and the like? Don't think that you can solve these problems with mosquito coils or rat poison. The neighbor's children are noisy, and the villagers are so angry. Talking with loud voices; the smell from the livestock being fed by neighbors; local dogs are basically not tethered and allowed to roam freely; many things are not as beautiful as you imagine.

It’s cloudy and rainy, it’s windy and snowy, the house is cracked, it’s leaking, it’s muddy when you go out, it can slip at any time, shopping, medical care, and transportation are not very convenient, and you need to adapt to many things. You need to think carefully about whether you can get along with old local friends and whether you have the patience and perseverance to persevere when it comes time to plant your own land and vegetables.

In rural areas, the emphasis is on liveliness, and visiting each other’s homes to enhance relationships. If you don’t go to other people’s homes, others will not be able to help but come to yours. When others come and you entertain them warmly, they may secretly say that you are too fake and that the people in the city are too hypocritical. If you are not enthusiastic, you will secretly say that people in the city are great, but even after retirement, they are still awesome. Anyway, because I am a newcomer and a new neighbor, I need to try my best to adapt to the old neighbors. After all, the relationship between people does not require a long time to get along. Everyone will be wary of a new neighbor.

Therefore, you must do research, plan, and make sufficient preparations to better achieve your goal of renting a house in the countryside and living a pastoral life for retirement.

Nowadays, many rural areas have beautiful scenery and fresh air.

It is indeed a good place for the elderly who like to be clean.

First, having a place to grow flowers, plants, vegetables and fruits, and raise chickens and ducks will not only bring happiness, but also exercise.

Second, there is less noise and peace of mind. Breathing fresh air for the elderly is helpful for their health.

Third, the neighborhood is harmonious and there is no intrigue. It is conducive to a comfortable mood, health and longevity.

However, we must also realize that rural areas have many shortcomings.

1. It is far away from the market and it is inconvenient to buy and sell things, which is a trouble for the elderly.

2. Medical care in rural areas is backward, and residents live far away from township hospitals, making it inconvenient to seek medical treatment.

3. Rural people love to gossip, and their parents have a lot of gossip. Although they do not mean it, nor are they malicious.

Therefore, if you want to live in a rural area for retirement, you must consider all aspects carefully.

I am a common man, a passer-by in heaven and earth.