The article was first published on Princess: EdithHonglovelife One day in February, when I was browsing Douban news, a girl I followed (clip) posted a post. The general content was: She wanted to be interviewed and had lived/is living in Chengdu, Hangzhou or Dali.

Friends, talk about your living experience and life insights in these cities.

I was very interested after reading it and immediately left a message explaining my situation - I have studied and lived in Hangzhou for nearly 10 years and came to Chengdu at the end of last year to work and live.

She quickly sent me a private message, sent an interview outline, and determined the time for online communication.

Because this topic is very interesting, I made some serious preparations before communicating.

Not only did I outline what I wanted to share, I also interviewed two friends from Hangzhou to collect their insights and experiences.

The hour I spent communicating with my neighbor was a very enjoyable one.

I was inspired by this and wanted to share my intuitive experience and feelings about the city’s basic necessities, food, housing and transportation after coming to Chengdu.

I will share the following content in three parts: The background of moving to Chengdu The intuitive feelings of outsiders after coming to live in Chengdu Chengdu VS Hangzhou, which city do I love the most? I am a girl from a small town in northern Anhui.

After taking the college entrance examination, I came to Hangzhou, the prosperous southern provincial capital, to study at university.

After studying and working here for nearly 10 years, I decided to leave Hangzhou with my boyfriend at the end of July 2021 to explore a new life in the southwest hinterland.

I came to Chengdu at the end of November to work and live here.

Many people ask me why I left Hangzhou and chose to continue development in Chengdu?

There are two main reasons: First, my boyfriend is from Neijiang, Sichuan.

He told me at the beginning of our relationship that he would return to Sichuan to develop in the future, so I was always mentally prepared to live in Chengdu.

In addition, after I graduated, I had no plans to return to my hometown for development, so I didn’t have a deep obsession with which city I wanted to live and take root in.

Secondly, housing prices in Hangzhou are really too high.

Although I love this city, the cost of buying a house here and putting down roots is too high.

Although Chengdu is also the provincial capital and a second-tier city, its housing prices are slightly lower and it is very close to my boyfriend’s hometown, a 40-minute high-speed train ride away.

If you come to settle in Chengdu, you will at least be close to one family and receive some care from the elders in the family.

Before I went to Chengdu, I shared this decision in my circle of friends.

Some people messaged me privately, saying that I was so brave to live so far away from home for a long time.

Some people may still think that I am desperate for love.

But actually for me, this decision was neither hasty nor simply crazy about love.

But after I met Teacher Peng, I thought about it every year, and finally made a decision that was most in line with my heart and more mature based on factors such as actual life, work, and changes in mentality.

On November 21, 2021, I took the high-speed train for nearly 8 hours from my hometown in Anhui to Chengdu.

Report to the new company on November 23.

On December 12th, I moved to a new house that I really like.

I have been living and working in this city for nearly 4 months now.

From the beginning when I was unfamiliar with the place, to now I am gradually adapting.

In the process of actively and slowly exploring the surrounding area, I always consciously or unconsciously felt and experienced this brand-new city with the eyes of "examination" and comparison.

I have listed these feelings and insights together and shared them with you.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation. The food paradise is well-deserved, but the catering industry is overwhelmed. After arriving in Chengdu and eating a few meals, I realized in hindsight: Hangzhou is really a food desert. The contrast is too obvious.

I finally understand that when we ate together in the past, if I thought it was delicious, Teacher Peng would always say it was just so-so and okay.

His mouth has long been fed by Sichuan delicacies.

Starting from breakfast, Chengdu beats Hangzhou with a variety of choices. You can eat just noodles for a week without repeating the same thing.

Even the taste of ordinary fast food for lunch is not on the same level.

In addition to the world-famous spicy hot pot, there are also various themed hot pots: mutton hot pot (not spicy, light), rabbit hot pot (although rabbits are cute, but the meat is really delicious), fish head and fish hot pot, beautiful frog

Hotpot (my boyfriend loves this) etc.

There are many restaurants, one every few hundred meters near ordinary residential areas.

And many restaurants are opened together to form a food street.

When eating, there are many choices.

But at the same time, there is fierce competition for businesses.

Because it smells bad, it is difficult to drive (meaning it cannot be driven).

And I really want to give Sichuan cuisine its name!

The biggest feature of this cuisine is the spicy food. Please note that the spicy food comes first and the spicy food comes last.

So friends from out of town, don’t think it’s spicy when you see the red soup. It’s actually not very spicy.

In addition, sugar is added to many Sichuan dishes to neutralize the spiciness.

Sichuan people don’t eat very spicy food every day in their daily diet. No one has a strong stomach. Light and delicious dishes will become the first choice of many people.

There is a large vegetable market near the community where I live now, and I love going there.

You can see a lot of local fresh vegetables, various spices, and braised food.

Among vegetables, I love lettuce, pea tips, and rapeseed flowers the most.