The urban village is another symbol of Shenzhen’s spirit. Although it is not an ideal place to live, it is indeed an important place for countless Shenzhen drifters to settle down in this strange city. If it were not for the high housing prices in Shenzhen , it is estimated that not many people voluntarily live in urban villages...

Those who come here are Shenzhen people. This is the place where many Shenzhen dreams took off. People who live there are full of passion, but also have bitterness and helplessness. This is a village in the city, and of course, this is also Shenzhen.

To Shenzhen, a city of immigrants, urban villages are just a place, but to the people who rent them, they are the whole world.

Most people who come to Shenzhen from other places have a long or short memory of living in Baishizhou. People who rent here include business owners and white-collar workers, as well as cleaners, porters, migrant workers, and college students.

For many "wage earners", this is the beginning of the Shenzhen dream. Jianghu said, "If you haven't lived in Baishizhou, you haven't been to Shenzhen."

Ah Hui, 28, worked as a teller in a bank in his hometown for five years right after graduating from college. He commuted from nine to five every day, went home to eat, sleep and watch TV. He repeated this every day for five years. life.

Last year, he resolutely gave up the golden job arranged by his parents and chose to move away from home. He came to Shenzhen with his college classmates to work hard together. Now, he works as a sales manager at a technology company in the High-tech Park.

When I come home from work, I have to face a house full of small flying insects and clothes that won’t dry no matter how hard I dry them. Sometimes when wandering around my home, I can still hear people from the neighboring community saying that foreigners are not good...

Ah Hui said: "I will not tell my family that I live alone." Here, I will only talk about the good places in Shenzhen, and when I succeed in my career, I will take them to visit.”

Although living in a village in the city, the Shenpiao people who have love will never suffer. Life is also sweet.

After Li Yu graduated from high school, she and her boyfriend rented a small single room of less than 10 square meters in Gangxia. At that time, she had not yet worked in Greater China, and her boyfriend had not yet opened Taobao. I have long been woken up by the alarm clock in the next room or the sound of slippers in the corridor.

Not long after I moved in, the Nokia 5200 I bought when I was a junior in college was left by the window while I was sleeping. But the monthly rent of 600 yuan allowed her to get closer to her boyfriend. She said: "Everywhere is safe with him."

Later, her boyfriend's Taobao store became more and more successful. Well, she also quit her job to run the business with her boyfriend, saving money hard and striving to have a spacious and bright kitchen that is truly her own.

After six years of hard work, they moved into the first 66-square-meter two-bedroom apartment in Longhua Shuxiangmen, making the leap from renting to buying a house.

The urban village tortured them, comforted them, and finally brought them to the "table."

When my colleague Xiaoliu was 20 years old, he worked as a customer service officer at a game company in Chegongmiao when he first arrived in Shenzhen. During the day, he had to accept cynicism from customers at the company. At night, when he returned home, he had to face the unbeatable Xiaoqiang, and sometimes even To endure the soul-deep blow caused by rats that appear out of nowhere.

But she always encourages herself, "I live in Shangyeshu Village close to the company, so I can help the company share more and improve myself while others are busy."

Later, she graduated, became a full-time employee, changed jobs, received a salary increase, changed jobs, and moved to a community near the new company.

Various things happen every day in urban villages. Moving is a common phenomenon in urban villages. Too many people come and go here, writing their own Shenzhen stories.

Nowadays, urban villages are decreasing day by day, and the rents in urban villages are also rising with the increase in housing prices. Some people have estimated that if there are no urban villages in Shenzhen, more than half of the people will leave Shenzhen. Although the environment is not very good, but But it is our safe haven on the deep drifting road. Do you still remember those urban villages where you once lived? Has your dream come true now?