A foreign city, dear you

Year after year, year after year.

Unknowingly, the train of time will also reach its end in 2009.

The migrant workers along the city are homesick again.

Those who took vacation early have already returned to their hometowns; those who have not yet taken vacation are making various preparations while going to work, waiting for the moment to return to their hometowns.

Ye Lian's family belongs to the latter.

It was an afternoon near the end of the year, and Ye Lian was visiting a children's clothing store.

Ye Lian wants to buy a thicker down jacket for Lanshan in preparation for returning to her hometown.

My hometown is too cold. Every time I go back to my hometown, I will undergo a cold test. Therefore, you must be well prepared to keep out the cold.

Children grow up quickly. When wearing the down jacket from the past two years, a large part of the small arms is exposed, so Ye Lian wants to buy another one for Lan Shan.

Last year during the Chinese New Year, when we were about to leave, we canceled our plans to go home because of the snowstorm. So this year, we have to go home anyway.

Although Ye Lian's family is all in Yancheng, the elderly on both sides of her and Cao Xueqian will be looking forward to their return home.

This kind of hope is strong year after year.

But this year, in addition to going home to see the elderly, Ye Lian has another plan, that is, she wants to go back to her hometown and see the houses in the county.

This idea suddenly appeared in the past few days, and then it stuck in Ye Lian's mind. But this is still a preliminary idea, and Ye Lian still has to discuss it with Cao Xueqian.

In the past year or so, since there were no other big expenses, I had some money saved. The money was not much, it was just the little money Cao Xueqian saved after spending various expenses on his salary, totaling around 200,000 yuan.

While thinking about returning to her hometown these days, Ye Lian suddenly thought of this deposit. She thought that it would be better to just leave this money in the bank. It would be better to use it to do something, or to preserve or increase its value. in the bank.

This may be the beginning of Ye Lian's investment awareness.

In fact, Ye Lian's most urgent idea is to replace the house in Xi Yayuan, because since the light and view of this house were blocked by Tianqin Pavilion, Ye Lian has been living in it with a kind of patience and compromise until now. And then someday in the future.

However, how easy is it to change a house in Yancheng?

Last year, in 2008, due to the poor economic environment, house prices plummeted and halved sharply, leaving many people who bought houses in fear all day long, fearing that house prices would fall again and again and never turn back; this made many currency holders Many people only dare to wait and see, and do not dare to buy a house, for fear that the money in their hands will shrink significantly if they are thrown out.

Ye Lian still remembers the time last winter when her family, Cheng Yufei's family, and Chen Pingfeng's family were in the sales hall in the central district. She also remembered that Cheng Yufei and Chen Pingfeng were worried about housing prices. Towards a bet made with different judgments.

At that time, the price of houses in the central area had been cut in half. The price dropped from 15,600 to more than 8,000. The drop was terrifying.

But even with such a reduction, the sales offices are still crowded, with few people buying houses.

At that time, Chen Pingfeng's view was that he could make a move when the house price dropped to 5,500, but Cheng Yufei thought it was impossible, so the two made a bet.

So what's the final outcome of the bet?

In fact, in the first half of this year, the result was already very clear - Cheng Yufei's judgment was right.

At the beginning of 2009, as the economic situation improved, house prices had stabilized and recovered, and then inexplicably (in Ye Lian's view) they started to rise unstoppably, just like the crests of waves, not only breaking the original house price record, but also rising. Housing prices continue to hit new highs.

The real estate market is on an upward trend and is extremely hot. Every time a new property is launched, it is sold out. To those who are rushing to buy a house, it seems that every apartment is like a big cabbage.

Different people have different attitudes toward the resumption of housing prices.

Those who have several houses in their hands enjoy talking about the surge in wealth that the rise in house prices has brought to them, showing off how wise, decisive and visionary they were when buying a house.

People who own a house are also very happy, and they are glad that they have caught the train of rising house prices. However, these people feel a little regretful: Why didn't they buy more houses when house prices fell?

For those who held the currency on the sidelines at the beginning, they wanted to take the regret medicine (if there was one), and resented why they did not seize such a good price reduction opportunity and lost the opportunity to get rich overnight; some have a sour mentality, talking about houses It’s all for living anyway, so where is it not living? If house prices rise, let it rise. I won’t buy it yet.

These three types of people are all rich people, but the amount of money is different.

There are many rich people along the city, but most of them are ordinary people without money.

These people don't have that strong reaction to housing prices. They feel that the houses along the city are far away from them anyway, and the rise in housing prices has little to do with them. What they are most likely to worry about is: Will rising house prices bring about rising rents?

If we insist on classifying the people along the city in this way, then Ye Lian and the others may belong to other categories.

They have no money, but they are not worried about rising rents.

Ye Lian sometimes reviews the various news about rising housing prices in the past year, and also recalls the scene last year when three families discussed housing prices in the sales hall in the central area.

She couldn't understand why the house price suddenly rose? Didn’t no one dare to buy it when the price was lowered?

She also asked herself if she had also missed a good opportunity to replace her house?

She thinks the answer is no.

When housing prices dropped to half last year, the bargains seen by the wealthy were still unavailable to them.

At that time, they had just paid off the debt they borrowed from Cao Xueqian and Wang Daqun's business. They had just bought a car and had little savings.

Therefore, Ye Lian felt that she had no regrets or regrets.

It's just that the housing prices are like a wild horse running wild. I'm afraid there will be no chance for people like Ye Lian to get on the horse again.

Since it is impossible to buy a house along the city, then buy a house in your hometown county.

Compared with the housing prices in the city, one is in the sky and the other is in the ground. Moreover, the housing prices are like the old streets in the hometown. They will not change year after year, so they should still be affordable.

I won’t know the exact price until I go back during the Chinese New Year and ask.

Ye Lian visited several children's clothing stores and finally settled on a black, thickened, knee-length down jacket with a hood.

Ye Lian paid the bill, and also bought two pairs of thicker socks, and then prepared to go home.

Cao Xueqian hasn't had a holiday yet, and there are still a few days before the scheduled date to return to his hometown. Gifts for the elderly who return to his hometown can be bought another day.

Ye Lian left the store and came to the street, watching as she walked.

Some of the shops on the street have closed, and some are taking advantage of the end of the year to increase sales. At the door of the store, someone is loudly soliciting customers or loudspeakers are shouting promotions.

There is a dazzling array of products, and they are all working hard to prepare for the last few days of the year, looking forward to a generous year-end bonus.

Ye Lian came to the corner of Commercial Street and Mingtian Road.

At the corner, a little way uphill from Mingtian Road, there was a group of people waiting for the bus.

A black Jetta car without a license plate slowly stopped in front of the crowd waiting for the car.

A head stuck out from the car window, shouting and gesticulating. After a while, people got on the car, one, two, three. The black window glass was closed again, and the Jada car drove away, like a black ghost.

Ye Lian has seen this kind of car several times. This is the rumored black car.