In August 2022, 28-year-old Daxiu, after returning to his hometown of Guangxi, a small county town on the 18th line, spent 570,000 yuan to buy a 320-square-meter, three-story villa.
After returning to his hometown from a first-tier city, Daxiu drifted outside for two years, never thought that he could rely on his and her husband's "deep drifting" savings to "live in a villa", only need to pay 200,000 yuan down payment, and the monthly payment is as low as 1,800 yuan without pressure. In Xiangzhou County, Laibin City, where commercial housing is generally 2k 3k per square meter, a high-end villa has a listing price of only 630,000 yuan, and it only took her 10 days to see the house to start.
It's worth it. Daxiu laughed. After all, with the same **, she may only be able to buy a parking space in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
This villa is not only a place for Daxiu to "lie flat" in the county, but also a pension house for parents, which can not only entertain dozens of relatives to sit around in the New Year, but also open up vegetable gardens and gardens for parents, and most importantly, "finally no longer have to work hard for a house for a lifetime." ”
Same as the big show,For young people who return to the county from first-tier cities and choose another rhythm of life, "cost-effective" is becoming the key to their "reverse consumption" of villas.
In Nanning County, in January 2024, 93-year-old Tang Yutao will be able to buy a large flat floor of 1.1 million sets and 240 square meters for only 800,000 yuan, with not only two parking spaces, but also a small garden. In less than two years, it plummeted by 300,000, and before that, Tang Yutao needed 1.1 million yuan to buy a 100-square-meter commercial house in Nanning. After hollowing out the provident fund and paying the down payment, the monthly payment is only 2,600 yuan, and now he is still decorating, and he only feels that he has "earned".
In Ningxia County, where Ran Ran was located in 97, there were only 3 villas, with an average price of 4 5k per square meter, and the most upscale villa was originally built for Arab ** businessmen. With the downward trend of the real estate market, this VIP-only property villa** is also facing shrinkage, jumping from 7K to 3K per square meter.
For Ran Ran, buying a house is not only the largest possible consumption, but also the expectation of her parents for a better life for a lifetime. So, I sold the original house, used my parents' life savings, and completed the decoration in only 3 months, with a full payment of 1.2 million, and moved into a 3-story 344-square-meter villa.
Figure: Arlene's county villa (a county seat in Chaoshan).
** @琳coco (Little Red Book).
Despite the downturn in the national real estate market, housing prices in first-tier cities remain high, and the sense of belonging that the house means is "out of reach" in first-tier cities. Young people who have returned from first-tier cities not only continue to buy houses in the county, but even empty their savings to buy villas, they are trying to live an ideal life in the county.
A can realize the dream of a villa in the county, which was originally something that Daxiu didn't dare to think. In 2019, after two years of drifting in the big city, Daxiu and her husband decided to return to the county seat to "get married and settle down." ”
Returning from the bustling Shenzhen to the small county town of Guangxi, even if the psychological construction is sufficient, Daxiu will inevitably face the loss of a job. It took her two months just to find a suitable job. In small counties, there are not many suitable job opportunities, and it is even more difficult to guarantee five insurances and one housing fund and two days off.
Daxiu's first job in the county only lasted more than ten days, but fortunately, after changing three times, Daxiu found a job as a real estate appraisal assistant. "With a monthly income of 5,000, there is not much pressure, 9 to 5 in a small county, and there are weekends and holidays", talking about these, Daxiu is very satisfied.
The opportunity to buy the villa was that after giving birth to a child, the parents-in-law moved into the marriage room, and the crowded space also left them without privacy. Therefore, Daxiu is quite eager to take out his savings for a big house.
In cities, the scarcity of villas makes them tend to remain high. In terms of the rated area, dozens of high-rise buildings could have been built on the land, and only a few villas were built, and the associated decoration costs and property costs were also a high cost.
Unlike in big cities, the average price of houses per square meter in the small county town of Laibin City, Guangxi Province, where Daxiu is located, is only 2 3k. Daxiu, who has money in his pocket, has found some confidence in buying a house in the county, after all, in addition to the commercial housing that is already in the first depression, the self-built "Tiandilou" in the south can make Daxiu not have to worry about buying a big house.
In September 2022, by chance, Daxiu saw a villa with a price of 630,000 yuan from a real estate agent in the circle of friends. Mortgage purchase, the down payment is only 200,000, which is affordable for Daxiu and her husband**. This villa located in the county is not only in a good location, but also has restaurants, fruit shops and supermarkets at the entrance of the community, and at the same time there is no property, and the management fee for a year is only 800 yuan, without the worry of high property fees for general villas.
Therefore, from viewing to purchasing, the big show only took 10 days. In the end, the bargaining price reached 570,000 yuan, and after using up the savings saved by her husband and her husband, after paying a down payment of 200,000 yuan, the monthly payment was 1,800 yuan, and a three-storey, 320-square-meter villa was purchased.
And the young people who "want to open" give up the prosperity of the big city and choose to return to the ordinary life of the county. Back in the county seat, the young people find that they suddenly seem to have enough money in their pockets to buy the house of their dreams.
As early as 2017, after graduating from university, Arlene, who returned to her hometown to take over the family factory business, bought the first phase of Evergrande's villa in a small county town under Chaoshan in the county.
Compared with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, where every inch of land is expensive, Arlene has long been accustomed to her hometown of self-built villas. She prefers to have a comfortable lifestyle.
And back in the county seat, with the sponsorship of her family, for more than two million, she was able to buy three floors and a stacked villa with two small gardens in the basement and two small gardens in front and back. At the same time, in the county, the cost of buying a villa has also decreased sharply compared with the first-tier cities. Before buying a house, Arlene calculatedThe property fee of her villa is not high, one yuan per square meter, and the decoration cost can also be pressed to 3,000 yuan per square meter.
Picture: A corner of the villa (left).
Interior of the villa (right).
** @大秀秀的破别墅 (Xiaohongshu), @冉冉的幸福生活 (Xiaohongshu).
Like Arlene, Ran Ran also has a villa dream.
Back in the county, young people have time to "live", so it is particularly important to live in the ideal house. There is no need to grab a parking space, squeeze the elevator, have a screened neighbor, an independent garden and territory, which makes the villa a symbol of identity and status to a certain extent.
From 2018 to 2024 alone, Ran Ran's family has changed houses three times, from the first set of houses of more than 100 square meters in 2019, and then to move into villas in January 2024, and as early as 2018, Ran Ran and his parents started to save money to buy villas in Yinchuan County.
Working in Yinchuan City, hoping to have a house in the county to work back and forth, retired after 10 years, looking forward to having a large yard of parents, always feel that the house is "a little stingy", and the villa has become their most perfect imagination of the house.
At that time, there were only three completed villas in the county, compared with the average price of 2 3k commercial houses, the highest price per square meter was 7k, and the average price was also between 4 5k, which was still "too expensive" for Ran Ran and her parents.
With the downturn of the real estate economy, Ran Ran found that the original favorite **villa has shrunk to 1 2 per square meter, and unlike the villas in the city, they are always located in the suburbs, with inconvenient transportation and lack of infrastructure, and the villas in the county are often located in the county. In Ningxia County, where Ran Ran is located, Ran Ran can find supermarkets and shopping malls within 10 minutes from his villa or ride an electric car, and Yinchuan City can be reached by car in 20 minutes.
Therefore, in September 2023, my parents sold their original house, plus their lifetime savings, and finally won the villa of their dreams with a full payment of 1.2 million. In order to shorten the days of renting a house, Ran Ran hurried to complete the villa decoration in 3 months, as the first household to move in the community, in January 2024, Ran Ran and her parents and a family of four spent the New Year in the villa.
Without affecting the convenience of life, 1.2 million bought a 344-square-meter house, which is really very content, and it is cost-effective no matter how it is calculated. Ran Ran smiled.
B went home from work, parked in his own underground garage, walked through his own small garden full of flowers, a dozen warm lights, the triangle plum swayed in the light and shadow, and the fatigue of getting off work has been smoothed.
Entering the entrance, the living room and dining room are spacious, the sunlight is not blocked by the high-rise, and the lighting is abundant; The study and bedroom are available on each floor, ensuring enough privacy and a comfortable gathering of friends at home on the weekend, with a view of the private garden from the window.
In August 2022, after getting the keys to the villa, Daxiu painted a picture of his future home in his heart. But buying a house is easy and difficult to decorateSince the down payment has emptied the savings, the big villa with three floors and a construction area of 320 square meters can only be "poorly dressed".
In order to move in in January 2023, he did not invite a decoration company, Daxiu hired workers, bought materials, and supervised the construction by himself. The design idea of poor decoration is also quite simple, the whole house is scraped white, and there is no background wall, the tile is the most cost-effective 800 * 800 specifications, in order to catch up with the construction period, only 3 rooms of the wardrobe, two rooms have not been done, even the staircase handrails are made of aluminum alloy. In the end, the big show only cost 170,000.
And if you start designing it yourself, it will inevitably "roll over". Before the decoration, the most anticipated thing for the show was the kitchen, but because the strategy was not enough, the kitchen cabinet door was black, and the door also opened the ventilation hole, which lowered the overall appearance, and the ideal was very plump, but in the end, the kitchen with messy colors looked a little "rustic". And the big show can only wait for the budget to be renovated.
For Ran Ran, who has changed houses 3 times in 7 years, selling the original house and buying a villa again has already spent all the family's savings. Although she is quite experienced in decoration, her limited budget also makes her choose "simple if she can".
In her budget, the original design of the three-story villa was the living room, kitchen and small bedroom on the first floor, two bedrooms and a study on the second floor, and an audio-visual room on the third floor where you can watch movies and karaoke without leaving home. However, due to the limited money for decoration, in the end, Ran Ran regretted that she could not renovate the audio-visual room, and the third floor became a laundry room.
From the commercial house nicknamed "Birdcage" in the big show, to the big villa, the decoration cost also made Tang Yutao's wallet face "hemorrhage".
After becoming a designer, Tang Yutao, a professional architecture teacher, found that although the villa has "a lot of room to play", even scraping putty is more expensive than ordinary flat floors. This is because the floor height is too high and needs to be leveled more. What's even more uncomfortable is that just after scraping putty for the second time, Tang Yutao, who coordinates Nanning, Guangxi, ran into Hui Nantian, and could only be forced to stop work and watch the freshly brushed roof seepage.
Picture: A corner of the room that is still under renovation
** @提桶跑路的唐某 (Little Red Book).
The budget of 350,000 yuan, just after the complete house water and electricity renovation, it was spent 350,000, and the expenses such as the air duct machine and shower bath bomb at the entrance door also spent 170 thousand. At the same time, he yearns for French style and wants to design the glass roof of the whole house, although in order to save money, he is looking for local manufacturers to customize, but because there are too many of them, it is also a big expense. Today, 30,000 yuan is spent on the balcony and roof glass on the second and third floors alone, not to mention that tiles are needed to go up and down the stairs.
Since the beginning of the year, Tang Yu Taoguang has spent more than 300,000 yuan on decoration, and the decoration budget of 350,000 yuan may be overspent at any time.
However, living in a villa has always been indescribably satisfying for the young people who return to the county.
This year's Daxiu family in the villa for the New Year has become the first choice for relatives to have family dinners, make zongzi together during the festival and other collective activities. During the New Year's holidays, the villa of Daxiu is always lively, and under the New Year's Festival, relatives who come back from other places will be surprised to visit Daxiu's villa, which is a villa of 570,000 yuan, which also makes many relatives move the idea of coming back to buy a house.
And because of the broken villa in the Xiaohongshu account @ Daxiuxiu, sharing his experience of winning a villa in the county seat for 570,000, Daxiu also unexpectedly became a home blogger, just 1000 fans have advertising cooperation, and now it is stable at 2-3 per month, and the side income has also reached 2 3k. With more than 3,000 fans, Daxiu will not only share her experience of poor clothing, but also reply to every fan's message.
After experiencing the prosperity of a big city, after returning to a small county town to "lie flat" and buy a villa, Daxiu found outThe ordinary small county town hides the most comfortable life"In the city, I feel like I've been working hard for this house all my life, and I can't get a house after hard work, and I have to pay a high monthly payment every month, and the joy of life is gone. But in the county seat, you can live well on income. ”
For Da Xiu, ** villa allowed her to enter retirement early.
The monthly payment of 1,800 yuan is also stress-free, the daily commute time is five minutes, there is a yard to barbecue, a terrace to enjoy the moon, and a garage without worrying about parking fees and shutdown fees, "happiness increased by 99%".
Although Ran Ran's family of four has only moved in for a month, they have already felt the happiness of a single house.
As the first household in the community to complete the renovation and move in, although the house is too big and the cleaning becomes frequent and laborious, she still feels a rare cleanliness. You don't need to huddle with your in-laws, you don't need to care about anyone's eyes when you go out, and you don't have to worry about the neighbors on the upper and lower floors, and you can relax in your own residence due to the noise of the neighbors' children.
Owning a villa also brings Arlene very close to her ideal life.
She has always longed for the life of the small courtyard, with two beautiful gardens of 30 square meters before and after, in the winter afternoon, she can meet three or five friends, sit and light a charcoal fire, make tea around the stove in the small garden, and drink beer in the open air barbecue in summer. She also transformed the basement of 70 into an audio-visual lounge, which not only has a home theater with a 120-inch screen, but also a wood-colored, Japanese-style study with a small bar for relaxation.
Figure Arlene's villa life
** @琳coco (Little Red Book).
Even if the overall real estate market is down, after Arlene bought the first phase of Evergrande Real Estate's villa in the county, there was news that the third phase of the villa project was unfinished, and the villa ** also ushered in**, similarly, Tang Yutao and Ran Ran of the real estate also got the east wind of house prices**, as for whether the house price will continue to fall in the later period, they don't care, "It is cost-effective to live in an ideal house with a family." Ran Ran smiled.
In order to live an ideal life in the county, Ran Ran also has more plans for their big villas.
Daxiu's master bedroom has a terrace, and she plans to decorate the terrace as her own leisure area after the new year, planting some flowers, planting some grass, and putting a small table, where she can usually blow the wind and drink tea on the terrace.
And just "gritting your teeth" and buying a villa is enough to make Ranran's parents excited for a long time. Now, as spring approaches, her parents have begun to plan what vegetables to plant in the front and back yards, which fruit trees, and flowers.
For those who return to the county, re-planning expectations, the ordinary life in the county may not be comfortable and satisfying. Giving up a job in a big city and returning to the county seat was originally a difficult choice, and it was more about the individual, and the choice of the big shows only allowed young people who were trapped in high housing prices in the city to see the possibility of another life.