When it comes to the Chinese New Year's holidays, a large number of people rush back to their homes from their jobs to reunite with their families. Especially during the Spring Festival, the "homecoming tide" is particularly obvious, and some people would rather buy a train station ticket than go home for a second less in order to return home for the New Year.
However, as time goes by, there will be no return to their hometowns in 2024, and some people will stay at their posts for high Spring Festival salaries, and they can't even sell tickets to the train station during the Spring Festival. With such a big difference from previous years, is it because people don't have the money to go home? The next three reasons why they don't go home.
First, the economic pressure has increased, and there is no money in the pocket to visit relatives and friends
With the change of the times, the financial pressure of many migrant workers has increased, not only do they have to face the cost of renting**, but also beware of not making money once they fall ill at work.
The Spring Festival was supposed to be a time to reunite with family, which should be happy and expected, but the income from working outside the home minus the rent and living expenses over the years, there is not much left.
Just one ticket can still be afforded by migrant workers. However, when you return home, you not only have to buy New Year's goods, but also visit relatives and friends, and hold family dinners, which all cost money.
If it is a visit by relatives during the Spring Festival, with children, and red envelopes for children, the money in your pocket is likely to be insufficient.
In short, going home for the New Year is inevitably a relatively large expense, so many people choose to spend the New Year in other places, no longer return to their hometowns for the New Year, and save a sum of money for their parents and children.
Moreover, you can still work during the New Year, and some holidays double the salary, many people are willing to stay for the New Year.
Second, there are many nearby work points, and I no longer fly to big cities
In recent years, the labor force in big cities has been relatively saturated and far away, so many people no longer aspire to work in big cities, but want to find a good job in the local area, not only to earn money to support their families, but also to go home to visit their parents at any time.
With the support of local policies, more and more factories are being built, providing a large number of jobs and job opportunities for these people who have nowhere to go to work here. Especially after the release of the rural revitalization strategy, rural areas attach great importance to it, and have explored characteristic industries to benefit together with rural people.
It is a very good choice to work nearby to make there fewer and fewer left-behind children and left-behind elderly, and to make families happier.
In addition, working locally, the local consumption is relatively low, unlike the big city, where the consumption of one day is scary, and I can save money for my children to go to school and the elderly to take medicine when they are sick.
With the increase in the production of domestic automobiles, ** is also declining, some people can also use their own money to buy a car, even if they work in the town during the Spring Festival, they can quickly drive back to their homes, and do not need to take other means of transportation back.
More and more people choose to work locally, so it is becoming less and less common for people to return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival, and it is difficult to see migrant workers with large bags and small bags waiting in long lines to board the train to return home.
3. The younger generation has ideas, and it doesn't matter if they go home or not
There is a generation of ideas, and today's young people are no longer more attached to home than people used to be, and they are more willing to open their hands.
In their consciousness, going home for the New Year is already a matter that can be decided by themselves, and they think that spending the New Year at home is the same as spending the New Year at the place where they work.
Among them, some choose to spend the holiday with their boyfriend and girlfriend, some choose to spend the holiday with their friends, and few choose to go home for the holiday.
The younger generation is not subject to the influence of traditional New Year thinking, they are more pursuing their own personalized needs, so that the New Year can be carried out in their favorite way and participate in meaningful activities, rather than the traditional Chinese New Year home.
Even if they go home for the Chinese New Year, they are prone to arguments and quarrels because their thinking is different from that of the previous generation. As soon as they pick up their phones at the dinner table, they are accused by their parents of disrespecting their elders.
Behind this is actually a reflection of the change in family relationships, the younger generation no longer relies on their parents, more independent and thoughtful, but the Spring Festival is once a year, and not going home is alienated from family affection.
In their opinion, it doesn't matter if they don't go home for the New Year.
Conclusion:
In fact, the three reasons for the disappearance of the wave of returnees: increased economic pressure, more nearby work locations, and changes in family relationships have exposed reality. If migrant workers do not return to their hometowns for the Chinese New Year, they must have their own difficulties.
Maybe I don't have the money to buy a ticket, or maybe I don't want to go back psychologically. But no matter whether these migrant workers choose to go home for the New Year or spend the New Year in the work area, it is their freedom, and the most important thing is to be able to spend a happy holiday, be with the people they love the most, and feel the warmth and care in a different place, which is enough.