Recently, I saw a self-*** saying that there is still more than a month before the Chinese New Year, and in some big cities in the south, migrant workers have already returned to their hometowns in advance, and some netizens commented that there will probably be no Spring Festival transportation in the future.
It is probably an exaggeration to say that there will be no Spring Festival travel in the future, but in the future, around the Chinese New Year, the traffic may not be as congested as before.
There are many reasons for this phenomenon, one is that some migrant workers have indeed returned to their hometowns ahead of schedule; Second, some migrant workers did not go south to work at all; Third, migrant workers don't want to go home for the New Year at all.
First of all, as mentioned in that **, some migrant workers have returned to their hometowns long before the Spring Festival begins. This is not to say that migrant workers don't want to earn money anymore, but because jobs are really hard to find. At the beginning of the year, I saw some people's posts and ** to go to Shenzhen and other places to find a job, most of them lamented that Shenzhen is not what it used to be. Now I can't enter the factory if I want to, because many factories are no longer recruiting, and some are laying off people.
This also shows that although the epidemic has passed, the impact on employment is still very large. It was so difficult to find a job even at the beginning of the year, and the rest of the time can be imagined. Those who can't find a job at the beginning of the year can't stay for a few days, and they go home when they run out of coils, let alone wait until the end of the year.
Second, there are probably fewer young people working in the south now than in the past. Most of the post-70s and post-80s generations who were proud to work in electronics factories are now old and have started a family. With a wife and children, as long as there is still a living at home, no one wants to leave their hometown. Even if they are willing to go to the south to work, their physical strength is not as good as before, and they are not welcomed by the factory.
And now the post-95s and post-00s are not so interested in working in factories, and they are more willing to deliver food and do live broadcasts to make money. After all, when I entered the factory, the work on the assembly line was hard and tiring, boring to death, and I had to work the night shift. Delivering food and doing live broadcasts are much more free and flexible, and you can do it in your hometown.
Since the rise of **, more people have been given the opportunity to work flexibly, so that they are no longer like their fathers, who only know how to sell their labor and make hard-earned money.
And some people who can't even deliver food and do live broadcasts would rather lie flat than go south.
Again, there is no New Year's flavor now, and people nowadays are not as homesick as they were back then, and they may not necessarily return to their hometown for the New Year.
I remember when I was a child, every time before the Chinese New Year, people tried everything to go home. At that time, there were far fewer shuttle buses than now, and there were only one or two buses a day from the county seat to the town, and the roads were not so easy to walk. Every Chinese New Year's Eve, some shuttle buses back to their hometowns are crowded with people every day. Some people even climbed on the roof of the car in order to get home.
At that time, people went out to work and did a side job, and they usually brought their own cover rolls. So, on the day of Layuetian, you can see such a scene: on a snowy day, the bus staggered back to the village, and the roof of the car was not only full of large bags of luggage, but also full of people. When I returned to the village, I was covered in snow.
At that time, the Chinese New Year was really lively, although everyone had no money, only bought a hundred yuan of vegetables and meat for the New Year, and only five yuan and ten yuan for the New Year, but every New Year, almost every relative's house would go through. On Chinese New Year's Eve, after twelve o'clock, the sound of firecrackers in the village began one after another. In addition to visiting relatives' homes for the New Year, people in the village will also visit each other and get together to play cards. After the tenth day of the first month, no one went out to work.
Now, more than half of the people in the village do not go home during the Chinese New Year, and many people's doors are locked all year round, and they don't actually see a few people when they go home for the New Year. Can't stay at home for a few days, Chu.
Second, as soon as the third day of the new year passed, he hurried back to the city. Going back to the city to earn money seems to be more important than spending the New Year at home.
People who don't go home also have their own reasons, some of the family's old houses have not been inhabited for many years, there is no firewood, rice, oil and salt, ice pots and cold stoves, and you have to wait until Fengji to go to the town to buy vegetables. Besides, there is no heating in my hometown, and I will freeze to death when I go back. Especially people who have bought a house in the city are even more reluctant to go home.
Lack of money is also a big reason why many people are reluctant to go home. I have to pay for the round-trip trip back to my hometown, and there are often no seats on the bus, so I stand back and forth bumpy, which is really unbearable. After returning home, visiting relatives and giving the children New Year's money is also a big expense. And now when people enter the city, many people actually can't make money at all, and they are empty-handed all year round, and they don't have the money to go home. If you have a mortgage or a car loan, it will be even worse, and you will not be able to make ends meet. I can't even take care of myself, who is in the mood to go to relatives?
And many older leftover men and women, who can't find a partner, are afraid of returning to their hometowns to be urged by their parents, and their relatives and neighbors laugh at them. During the Chinese New Year, I would rather hide alone in a rental house in the city and eat instant noodles.
In short, people who don't go home for the New Year have their own difficulties, although they are a little unkind, but this is also determined by their own situation.
People are reluctant to go south to work, nor do they want to go home for the New Year, and they want to find a nearby city to live, which also makes the busy and crowded Spring Festival travel for many years may become less and less fading in the future.
Back then, I wanted to go home for the New Year but couldn't go back, and now I can go back but don't want to go back. Why is our life like this?