As we all know, the number of rural residents in the country is becoming smaller and smaller. Although many people have a household registration in rural areas, they spend most of their time working outside the country every year, so it is difficult to see young people in rural areas.
Generally in the period from November to December, when the New Year is approaching, migrant workers outside are working overtime to earn more money, so that they can go home and spend the New Year with peace of mind. After all, during the Chinese New Year, whether it is to honor the elderly or visit relatives, you need to spend money to buy gifts.
However, we found that the situation seems to be a little different this year, although there are still two months before the Chinese New Year, there are already migrant workers who have embarked on the journey back to their hometowns one after another, and some have even returned to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year in advance. For this phenomenon, many people in the city wondered, could it be that the migrant workers had already enough money and went home for the New Year two months in advance?
After our in-depth understanding, we found that the actual situation is not as good as imagined, and many migrant workers choose to return to their hometowns early, and there are four practical reasons behind them.
In the past few years when real estate was booming, as long as migrant workers were willing to endure hardships and hardships, they had endless work to do. However, the situation has become completely different in the past two years, the previous year was due to the epidemic lockdown that caused many migrant workers to return to their hometowns in advance, and this year, the reason why migrant workers returned to their hometowns was because they could not find a way to make money.
After all, in recent years, China's property market has continued to be sluggish, and major real estate companies have chosen to reduce land acquisition and investment, which has led to a decrease in the number of real estate construction sites in the city, and the migrant workers who make a living from it have naturally lost their jobs.
As a result, after finishing work on a construction site, many migrant workers can only choose to go home early, which is also a helpless thing.
Although it is said that migrant workers have earned the cost of supporting their families by working in the city in recent years, in fact, this money is really hard to come by. Because the income in the city is higher, but the expenditure is also high, many migrant workers can only start from the aspects of food and housing in order to save money, and life is tight.
Considering that there is less work not only on the construction site but also in the factory, and it is impossible to work overtime if you want to, but at the same time, the cost of living is relatively high, and you can't save money if you continue to work, so some migrant workers choose to go home early.
I don't know what the reason is, but now factories have strict restrictions on the age of recruitment - no one over 35 years old will be hired. This has led to many migrant workers in their forties and fifties falling into a career crisis in advance. Obviously, 35 years old is a time when a person's work experience is more mature, but many companies think that people at this age are not easy to manage, so they came up with this "bad move".
Against this backdrop, some elderly migrant workers who have been dismissed can only go home early and make plans after the year.
After years of hard work, many migrant workers find a strange problem: making money is obviously to improve their lives, but in the end they are kidnapped by making money, which is really helpless. Although many people have worked hard year after year, they still have not been able to be a good father (mother) in front of their children and a good son (daughter) in front of their parents.
After thinking about it, many migrant workers decide to go home early to spend more time with their families, which may be more important than earning more money.