“If not forced by life, who would want to leave their homes. “
In July 2006, I graduated from Daqing Petroleum Institute (now Northeast Petroleum University) and started to prepare for my job search.
Before that, I also wanted to study, but the family conditions did not allow: my father did not have a formal job, my sister and I grew up following him, starry night into the northeast woodland tree cutting. He was afraid that we would get lost, and often called our names in the deep forest while cutting; as far as I can remember, we moved all the time, from Lao Wang’s house to Lao Li’s house, and then half a year later to Lao Sun’s house, sharing a room with others, sleeping on a north-south bed with only a curtain in between.
“Study hard to have a way out. In 2002, I was admitted to Daqing Petroleum College with a score of 30 points above the key line in Jilin Province, majoring in telecommunications, and in my senior year, I found a part-time job as an English tutor for a girl. The decoration of her house was so bright that I spent half a day looking for the switch of the toilet in the bathroom. I heard that her parents had already done the Canadian investment immigration, and they would send her to Montreal after the college entrance exam. That was the first time I heard of “Montreal”. The girl’s eyebrows fluttering, and I think about the Western style. I occasionally smiled awkwardly, just to listen to a hilarious. After all, I was only there for the 200 yuan tuition fee.
I heard that there are many electronic factories in the Yangtze River Delta, in July of that year, I stepped on the train to Suzhou and entered an electronic factory in Wujiang. This job only lasted two months – listen to the dormitory to do six years of big brother said, the factory is a Taiwan foundry, “deputy manager “Above basically all Taiwanese, the highest position of mainlanders is our section chief – he has done almost 15 years, for people still as thin ice. Every day to and from work, but also unbuckle the waistband, through the security gate, at first fresh, and then gradually have the feeling of being insulted.
So, I quit my job as a young man, and ran from Suzhou to Beijing with a big woven bag.
In Beijing, not having moved 5 times
Not enough to talk about life
In November 2006, Beijing station was bustling with people, and the air was the smell of hope. I took Line 13 to Zhichun Road, as instructed by my buddy Xiao Ka. While waiting for him to pick me up, I looked around greedily and remembered another axiom of my father: “There is no harm for a boy to make a break for it. “
At that time, Tangjialing was still a barren area, and farmers had built small buildings of three or four stories, with a dozen cubicles on each floor, and the toilets were public, leaking in winter and stinking in summer. Xiao Ka and I lived in one of the rooms, the monthly rent of 300 yuan.
I don’t know who instilled in me the idea that foreign companies are superior to others. In early 2007, I was really hired by a company headquartered in Singapore, the position is a software test engineer, responsible for testing cameras.
After the job was confirmed, it was inconvenient to live in Tangjialing, so I said goodbye to Xiao Ka, picked up a woven bag and moved into a cubicle in Xiaojiahe. And I share a room is the big super, four years of college sleep my bunk brother. After graduation, he also left Liaoning and started to drift north.
After several failed interviews, one day, Dachao “popped” to my bunk threw a red certificate.
“What is this thing? The room was dimly lit, so I couldn’t see what was written clearly.
The company is also a person of status. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re getting into.
I opened a look, the cover printed with “actor’s card”, Dachao said it is spent 100 yuan to do, can go to do mass actors.
“You want to enter the entertainment industry ah? “
“Well, anyway, idle is idle, Wang Baoqiang is not also a mass actor from it? Maybe one day brother famous it, want my signature you have to hurry up ah. “He is very serious.
“OK, super brother cheer, I wait for that day. “I took a deep breath of smoke, a complex expression of disdain and respect coexisted on my face.
The company I work for is in Wanquanzhuang, Haidian District, with a probationary salary of only 1,800 yuan, and I don’t count on the aura of foreign companies, office buildings and white collars.
There was a fresh undergraduate graduate in the testing group, who knew he was from Beijing as soon as he opened his mouth, and was always calm and confident whenever he appeared at his workstation. Later he taught me a lot of things: installing various versions of operating systems, backing up more than 50 GHOST images, one-click system restore, hard disk partitioning, debugging the test environment …… I was ashamed of myself – I should have known that I should have applied for a university in Beijing, even if it was a lousy Even if the school is bad, 4 years of life in Beijing will be able to teach me more things.
The salary is 2500 yuan after the regularization, which is still not enough to cover the expenses. After graduation, I had to pay back my student loans, and I was so embarrassed that I had to rely on cashing out and overdrawing my credit card – I swiped money from my credit card at X Commercial Bank, had a repayment gap of more than a month, and then swiped money from my credit card at Agricultural X Bank to make up for the hole at X Commercial Bank, and had no money left to give to my father in Jilin to subsidize my family, but my father would say to everyone, “My son is a college student. The father said: “My son college students, now working in Beijing. The more he smiled in the face of relatives and neighbors at New Year’s Eve, the less I felt.
One day, I went back to Tangjialing to look for Xiao Ka, pointing at the buildings of Zhongguancun Software Park in Shangdi next door, and said with conviction: my brother will definitely work here one day.
It is said that in Beijing, not having moved 5 times is not enough to talk about life. I have moved 6 times in 6 months, and I can pack up and leave in 10 minutes each time.
In February 2007, Dachao found a job doing circuit board assembly, and for the convenience of work, we both moved to the old bungalow near Qinglongqiao, which was waiting to be demolished. After getting off the bus, you have to go around and go through a section of the ruins to reach the rental house, many times I passed by after work, there are always a flowery lesbian and I eye-to-eye.
After a month of living there, we both decided to move again, the reason being “too many people”. Where to move, I can not remember.
In April, I parted ways with Dachao and moved to the hutong opposite the Wudaokou Waisheng Building. Every morning from the group room out of the door, look up to see the sky of the price of Huaqing Jiayuan district.
This time and I sleep in the bunk bed of the person named Dabao, is the university dormitory iron buddy, Siping people, the university period, we always love to joke about him, that he is Siping mental hospital run out – but all a normal-minded college students, will not be in the ideological and political class a serious, stuttering questions said. “Teacher, what’s the use of learning this stuff? “
In June 2007, I moved to the petroleum compound next to the University of Geosciences, next to the Hong Yu building, and lived in a bunkhouse with a monthly rent of 400 yuan, reuniting with Dachao.
The original two-bedroom apartment was partitioned into four rooms. Push open the door of the partition, creak to the edge of the bed. The smell of cooking fumes mixed with cheap cigarettes festered in the closed space, and I suspect that allergic rhinitis was acquired at that time.
The big super likes to read novels in the starting point, like a fascination can stay up all night. I brush up on “Old Friends” and watch “Struggle” played by Tong Da Wei Ma Yi, in which there is a line: “If I am poor for life, will you still love me? If you work hard for the rest of your life, I will still love you even if you are poor. “
See here, I sucked hard. At that time, my high school classmate married a guy from the army compound, the other party has a house and a car in Beijing, working in the space agency; junior high school classmate’s girlfriend in Beijing Normal University for doctoral studies, the two of them are in love, bought a house near the small Xitian; and a buddy, after graduation, parents paid a down payment, in Huilongguan bought a house, only need him to pay the monthly payment.
And I’ve been far behind with a monthly salary of 2,500 yuan.
“When will there be a home for me in Beijing at night with all the lights and stars? ” I asked Dachao.
He gave me a blank look: “Go to bed, you have to work tomorrow. “
“I’m in love.
I found out that my girlfriend’s salary is much higher than mine.”
The penguin in the lower right corner of the computer has been flashing, click to see, is a small card message: “August plans to go to Beijing around hiking and bridge descending, you have time to participate, right? “
“About how much does it cost? ” I cut to the chase.
“AA system, not much, on the train ticket and farmhouse meal money. There is a foreigner friend, professional equipment, if you go, the two of us to meet him there. I meanwhile post online to see if there is still together to go. “
“Yes, go! “I was obsessed with English in those years, and once I heard the opportunity to practice speaking, I agreed to go.
There were 8 young people going with us, including 2 friends of Xiao Ka, 1 female junior high school classmate of ours, Derek the foreigner and his Chinese girlfriend, and two girls who follow in the Mizuki community.
The two girls who signed up through the forum, one is particularly talkative and one is particularly smiley.
The one who loves to laugh is called Xiaohua. When I first heard her laugh, the first thing I thought of was “yellow warbler out of the valley”. What others say she can poke a smile, as if that is a kind of heartfelt cheerfulness, so that people do not feel happy up.
That night, we camped by the river and it rained lightly during the night, and in the morning, it was cool enough to call everyone to the bridge next to us for a quick drop. I volunteered, the name said to everyone to do an example, now I think, inevitably have the meaning of the wind.
That time, I had an inexplicable feeling about Xiaohua. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services. One day, the pimple-faced team leader suddenly announced that he would be transferred to Singapore headquarters to work. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. The Beijing guy patted me with old-fashioned enthusiasm: come on, work hard, there will be bread.
When I returned to my room, I was asked by Xiaohu from the University of Geosciences to go to the entrance of the Hong Yu building to jerk off. At night, Beijing is a bustling city, and the smell of cumin lamb fills the wind. The gourmets were exchanging glasses of wine and pointing out the world. After three rounds of drinking, I bragged about my company and lamented that life was not easy, while Xiaohu dreamed of doing something after graduation and ranted about when the fucked-up college life would end. The two of us, you and I, envy each other.
This time I agreed to be very quick, because I heard that Xiaohua also went; on November 23, after three months of knowing each other, she and I established a romantic relationship.
In June 2008, I said goodbye to the big super, and Xiaohua moved into a “three to five” purple city home, the monthly rent of 700 yuan.
After falling in love, I learned that there is a brand of clothes called VERO MODA, and she graduated a lot higher than my salary. I started to cut my hair short and stopped relying on credit cards to make ends meet, I wanted to get out of poverty, I wanted to have a nest of my own.
In 2008, I received an interview notice from a well-known chip R&D company in China. The interviewer was a test manager who spoke concisely.
“Briefly introduce your work experience. ” she said with a smile.
“Hello, I graduated 1 year, currently software test engineer on the job, mainly responsible for testing camera applications and drivers ……” I was suddenly nervous in my heart.
“Just graduated a year, why do you want to jump ship? “
I had expected this question.
“Your company is the chip industry leader, my current company’s camera products using your chip, the product and software I am more familiar with. As for why I want to jump ship, to be honest, one is that I think the chip is the soul of all products, I hope I can learn and contribute. The second is that I fell in love and found that my girlfriend’s salary is much higher than mine, I want to work harder and improve my value. “
She didn’t expect me to be so frank and giggled out loud.
I successfully took the offer and became one of the few undergraduate employees in a company full of returnee masters. Happy for me at the same time, Xiaohua also soon after jumped to my dream job in the Zhongguancun Software Park, the salary is higher than me – although compared with peers, we both do not talk about high salaries.
In 2011, we received a license, the day of the blood test at the North Medical Center, the doctor announced that Xiaohua is pregnant.
“We have to hurry up and line up at the Maternal and Child health Center to build a file! “The arrival of a new life made me excited, but as the saying goes, poor couples are sad, and soon, a series of problems followed.
“If you can, you can rent the whole thing yourself.”
“July is the due date, we have to move again. “One day, Xiaohua said to me, with a slight resentment in his tone.
“Well, after the Lunar New Year, I’ll go out and look at the properties. “I put off.
“I looked, the whole rent are so expensive, at least four or five thousand dollars a month. ” she added.
“Even more expensive to rent ah, with a child how can also share a room? I’ll browse more city forums and ask the agents. “I swear by it.
For 9 years, moving is almost the keynote of our life. From Longxiang District, Zichengjiayuan, Qinghencheng, Erlizhuang, Huoying, Anningzhuang North, Qing Yuan Dongli, Anningli South District, to Qiang You New Town, we basically moved once a year.
When we lived in Zichengjiayuan, we both were also deducted a deposit by the black-hearted agent. The five families who shared the apartment went to the Chaoyang District Police Station, only to see the agent with his legs crossed, smiling and smoking a cigarette, and he was a regular visitor to the station. The police asked us to negotiate on our own, but after a long afternoon with no results, we all lost the battle. All have to go to work to make ends meet, and they really can not spend.
In addition to living without a place to stay, the health of the small flower is also worrying. During a routine maternity checkup in the fifth month of pregnancy, she was found to have “cervical insufficiency” and nearly miscarried. During that time, she spent her time browsing mommy forums, catching up on knowledge, and often became depressed and worried under the effect of progesterone and estrogen.
”bottles, milk powder, learning chopsticks, teething gel, complementary food machine, X Bao buy, do not feel confident, in the physical store to buy, and expensive. “
”What about moonlighting, you can only take a week or two off, and I only have 4 months of maternity leave, and after that, when I go to work, who will take care of it?
No kindergarten is willing to take such a small baby, and besides, I’m not sure. “
”Also, if you don’t have a Beijing residence, how will your child go to school in the future? “
……
“Oh, you don’t have to think about it, okay? The first thing to do is to take care of your body than anything else. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things.
In the days that followed, the problem was like a boulder that pressed down on the body, and finally, on New Year’s Eve, we both broke down completely over a small matter and cried hard in the second bedroom.
At that time, we were living in the second bedroom of Erlihuang, the master bedroom is my college classmate and his girlfriend. At first, they got along quite well, but every time they took a shower, they always made the bathroom floor full of water. I was afraid she would fall and reminded her 2 times, but the other side still did what they wanted.
One day, I again reminded kindly, the result of the classmate’s girlfriend is anxious, dislike back: “have the ability, you own whole rent ah. “
I was always afraid to argue with people, so I had to hold my anger back and went back to my room, and started to look for whole rental properties online.
At that time, the price of housing in Beijing had already “taken off”, and it was impossible for me to buy a house unless I won the lottery. But for the sake of my wife and children, I had to find another way out.
Like many northern drifters, we originally planned to work in Beijing for a few more years to earn some money, and then go back to our hometown to live.
However, I am a person who loves to make things happen, and I think I have more skills than I can handle. After falling in love, I picked up the “New Sino-Japanese Exchange Standard Japanese Language” and tried to take The Japanese Language Proficiency Test again.
In 2010, I thought about studying in the United States again, so I had nothing to do but to soak in the stupid forum to chew English and take the GRE, but I was too busy at work, so I memorized the Red Book and memorized it again and again, but basically I stopped at the abandon, and I took the GRE twice, but also failed.
Xiaohua also tried to take the civil service test in Beijing, and found that it was also a dead end.
In August 2011, the weather was hot and dry. Xiaohua dragged me to a venue in Chaoyang District to attend a lecture on skilled immigration to Quebec, Canada. I spat out on the spot.
“Immigration, how much money does that cost! “
“The agents are all scams, they talk a lot, but after you pay the money, you are the fish on the plate! “
“Besides, after we get out, what can we do? “
……
But in order to comfort the little flower, I went home and checked the relevant policies, assessed the feasibility and then spent nearly 20,000 RMB to enroll in a French course in Beijing.
To tell the truth, I was still uncertain about what to do. On one side of the immigration forum, immigration agents were blowing overseas into a paradise on earth, and on the other side, immigrant friends were telling me that they couldn’t find a formal job after leaving the country and had to serve dishes in restaurants. Friends and family are also not optimistic: how easy is this thing? It’s all a game for the rich.
One day, my colleague Kathy asked me: “The country has convenient transportation, all kinds of food and beautiful scenery, living quite comfortably, why do you want to run to a strange country to start over? “
She was a salesperson in the company’s Shanghai branch and had passed the English exam, so I often asked her for English advice and gradually became acquainted.
“That’s probably because you have a Shanghai household registration and your parents can both reach out to help take care of the kids, so life is not that stressful. I tried to explain from her point of view, “and you have your own house in Shanghai, and 2 sets of it, and you can not afford to compare. “
“Gee, the location is more remote, and is not a luxury house, the domestic job opportunities, the opportunity to make money is also much more than abroad ah. “She digressed.
“That said, there are more opportunities to make money, I do not have the ability, not that mind is also useless ah. This is my heart.
“Then go for it, keep tossing, and wait for your good news! “She no longer argued with me.
Classes are held near Wanquanzhuang, all day Saturday and Sunday, for one year. I had 500 hours and Hana had 300 hours. She took the class with me with her belly, and lunch was served in a small restaurant with rice.
We also started with the 26 letters of the alphabet, and we had to forget English and learn pronunciation from scratch. We watched French movies, listened to French radio, and listened to audio materials whenever and wherever we could to sharpen our ears. It was a year of no entertainment and no holidays.
After completing 500 hours, I started to prepare for the exams, just like other young students, memorizing words, brushing up questions, and preparing for the speaking materials. The first exam at Beijing Language and Culture University was not satisfactory, so after a few months of preparation, I went to Qingdao to take the exam again and finally got a TCF score of B1 for speaking and B2 for listening.
There were rumors earlier that the immigration policy in Canada was starting to tighten and the language requirements would become higher and higher. After I submitted my documents, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no news.
“Do I want my son to make the same mistake I made? “
In June 2012, I rented a 55-square-meter two-bedroom apartment in An Ning Zhuang Beili for $3,300 a month, and at the end of July, my son was born.
I was immersed in the joy of being a father, picked a day, took the night off to rush back to Jilin, ready to give the child’s family register. However, when I put the documents in front of the police, I couldn’t smile.
“Can not do, the child can not be on your account. The police glanced at my account book, and without looking up, pushed the documents back.
“Why ah, I have come all the way back from Beijing, I ……”
“Beijing rushed back how, can not settle the household or can not settle ah, you do not meet the policy. “He interrupted me.
“I am a native of Jilin, after graduating from college and moved back to our Jilin from Daqing, what is wrong with that? ” I got a little cranky.
“You are the only one in this household book, why you are the head of the household, you do not know? “The other party asked rhetorically, “You are attached to this hukou! “
“What do you mean by tied up? “
The police gave me a blank look: “You are not a permanent resident of the local population. “
Later he also said what, I can not remember, only remember the puzzlement, aggression and anger flooded the mind, that moment, which is right or wrong is no longer important, since I grew up wandering around, once again feel helpless, as if a weed, drifting with the wind.
And then an accident happened, but also became the last straw that broke the camel’s back.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. “
During that time, I worked during the day and studied for IELTS at night. I was busy with work, housework and study every day, often at 11 o’clock at night; on weekends, I studied at home without exception, not to mention the lack of entertainment, the most torturous is aggravated by the haze of allergic rhinitis – every two weeks. The most torturous thing is the allergic rhinitis aggravated by the haze – every two weeks, a dozen sneezes in a row, dizziness and unstoppable tears.
I was living like an alien in Beijing in the face of life’s chaos, and my father was willing to give me a hand, naturally saving me from myself. But taking care of a child is a delicate job, and I wasn’t sure if my father, who had done heavy work all his life, could handle it.
On a normal working day, I had a nasal infection and took time off work to go home and study for IELTS. My father was pushing the stroller around the hallway, putting it to sleep. Suddenly, there was a scream from outside the door.
“What’s wrong? I quickly pushed the door and went out.
My father looked confused and muttered, “I don’t know. “
The son’s heartbreaking cries had already resounded throughout the stairwell. I fixed my eyes to see, the father’s mouth on the cigarette without the cigarette, look down, the son’s neck has been scorched.
My heart sank at once. The scene after that, do not want to remember.
The first thing I did was to get to the hospital, and my son was sobbing in my arms all the way, and I couldn’t stop the tears from falling down, and I was so busy working, and my body was so bad, and my immigration was so frustrating, and my family was so messed up, that at that moment, all the aggression came flooding back. “Do I want my son to repeat my mistakes? I couldn’t help thinking about it.
After running to three hospitals one after another, I was able to find the Jishuitan Hospital that was willing to treat him. The doctor graded it as second-degree burns, bandaged it and said to me, “Boy, you’re lucky it was just a burn on the neck, if the cigarette fell on the eye can be ruined! “
Xiaohua came over to comfort me: “Do not blame your father, he is not easy. “
But the calmer she was, the more I blamed myself. Our lives needed some change.
One day, my qq popped up with a message from Kathy: “Little grass, little grass, my husband is working on immigration policy too! “
“What, tell me, stimulated by who? ” I was sleepy.
“A lot of factors, he has not yet reached 40, is already close to the ‘smartest’, the work pressure is too much, he a science and technology man, and do not know how to adapt, always work overtime, but also suffer from the sandwich gas, we are not so short of money, he does not want to so hard; and daughter has allergic rhinitis, he always think that foreign air may be better ……”
The QQ chat window prompted “the other side is typing”, I did not interrupt her.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. He called to ask, the official boss, said his situation to join me, it is best to get a graduate degree, otherwise you have to wait for a decade or eight years, he stimulated, angry and cursing people! He is a tendon, can not stand this nuisance. “
“Account transfer to Shanghai may be more difficult than immigration, right? “I guess.
“Yes! We may also have to consider the technical migration, from now on more advice from you ah! “
In this way, Casey also embarked on a tortuous migration path, preparing to apply for Australia’s state-sponsored program, but then the target program’s occupation list changed and their occupation was scrubbed.
In late 2012, my application for a Canadian student visa was denied on the grounds of “immigrant orientation” and Insufficient funds. By then, I had taken 8 IELTS exams, 7 Gs and 1 A, each with an application fee of nearly $1,800, but I still hadn’t achieved a “4 out of 6”. But I still didn’t achieve the “4-6” score.
Without “4-6”, there are not many immigration projects suitable for me: employer-sponsored and investment immigration require money support, and the threshold for federal skilled migration is too high for me to reach on tiptoe; plus the nomination policies of the provinces are uncertain, I once thought of giving up – I was tired of studying at midnight, I don’t want to count it; I have a nasal infection, I don’t want to take the test; my friends are having dinner, live in the moment, what’s the point of tossing and turning.
However, every time I see colleagues for the children’s school face full of worry, to buy a car to shake his head repeatedly, many simply insoluble problems, so I more and more do not see the hope of staying. I gritted my teeth and told myself: take a chance again.
“Why do these elites sharpen their heads
must come out of it? “
And then, I did.
In 2014, Canada’s NSNP program (Nova Scotia Provincial Nominee Program) came out, open to 150 families worldwide, and did not require the IELTS “4 of 6 The “4-6” constraint. I stayed up late to prepare all the documents and handed them in on the opening day. Supposedly there were at least 5,000 applications worldwide before the deadline, and we were lucky enough to be one of the 150 families selected in the lottery (and even more coincidentally, Kathy’s family was also selected). Once we got the provincial nomination, we moved on to the federal application stage. Things were looking up.
In 2015, while waiting to go through the immigration process to Canada, luck struck once again. In order to double insurance, I also grabbed a Silver Fern visa from New Zealand (Silver Fern visa is rare, only 300 per year worldwide, known as “Panda visa”, once by It was once speculated to 30,000 RMB by the agent. In June, I quit my job, said goodbye to my colleagues, and landed in Auckland with the unknown in my mind.
When I was wandering overseas, my feelings were similar to those in the north, but with a little more uncertainty. I met a group of like-minded friends here, most of them came from Baidu, HP, huawei, IBM, Ali, Jingdong, Oracle, Tencent, Ericsson and other companies, with about 10 years of working experience.
“Why do these elites cut their heads off and have to come out? “Xiaohua once asked me.
“This is the siege, right. “I thought about it and said.
In order to facilitate travel, I bought my first car in Oakland. Although it was second-hand, I was still excited on the day I picked it up and wanted to try it on the road. As a result, I had an accident at a Y-shaped stop sign intersection – when I turned right with one foot of gas, a pickup truck sped by on my left.
My friend helped me drive the car back to my place. It was a 4-bedroom bunk, cold and damp. When I thought of the 2 companies I had interviewed with in the past 2 months, all of them ended in failure, and the economic conditions and personal abilities of my friends around me were better than mine, a strong sense of frustration struck me.
“Husband, do you have an interview today? “WeChat phone rang, the familiar voice came from the other end.
“No, foreigners are so inefficient. ” I complained.
“Then let me tell you a good news, right? ” she deliberately sold.
My eyes lit up: “It’s not the Canadian visa, is it? “
“Yeah, I got the big envelope today!!! “
At the other end of the phone, Xiaohua let out a loud laugh. I remember, it’s been a long time since I heard her carefree laughter. I was stunned, so I was not dreaming.
Postscript
At the end of October of that year, our family landed in Canada. I was hired by a Halifax broadcasting equipment company as a software testing technician. After working hard for a year, my family moved to Ottawa, and Hana took a position at a network company, resuming the “double IT” situation, just like in Beijing. The only difference is that I think it’s all the same.
The only difference is that I didn’t even dare to think about buying a house, but it became a reality in Canada. With a bank appraisal, we finally bought a detached house with a 5% down payment, where we welcomed our second son and third daughter.
There is no room for the body in the hometown, and no room for the soul in another country. Immigration does not mean that all problems can be solved at once, and no matter where you are, your worries are still there. It just depends on how I look at it.
When I was interviewing for my first job in Canada, the interview manager asked me, “Why do you move to Halifax?”
(Why did you choose the small city of Haffa?)
I answered him, “To be honest, I am trying to pursue my inner peace. “
(To be honest, I am trying to pursue my inner peace.)
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