Why do many people have to build a new house in their rural hometown?

The other day, a good friend complained to me that his father insisted on building a new house at home, and each brother had a floor. For that house, the family was in debt of hundreds of thousands. For a monthly salary earner like him, the economic pressure was so great that he could not understand his parents' thoughts.

I was born and raised in the countryside. Although I am not surprised by this phenomenon, I don't understand it. Obviously, my family moved and they all lived in the city. Why did I come back to build a new house?

It was not until I visited my friend's house by chance and talked with his parents about this topic that my doubts were solved.

His two sisters have been married, and his eldest brother has got married and rented a house in a first-tier city in Shenzhen. He and his second brother work in Guangzhou and Shanghai respectively. In fact, there are few people living at home, and the children don't plan to live in their hometown. They just go home occasionally on the New Year's Day. Why build a new house?

after talking with my friend's father, I realized that the house in my hometown in the countryside has an unparalleled position for the older generation. Hometown is the root, and leaves always fall to the roots.

A big reason for building a new house in my hometown in rural areas is for my son to marry a daughter-in-law. Nowadays, many girls want to have a house and a car, and they can't get rid of the old dilapidated house at home. No girl is willing to marry. Parents also know that houses in first-tier cities like Guangzhou and Shanghai cannot be bought by sons, so it is the most cost-effective to build a new house at home. Staring at the project, I am not afraid of unfinished business, and I don't need property.

secondly, I'm afraid that my hometown doesn't have a good house, that my three brothers are developing in other cities, and that my two daughters are not doing well in my husband's house. The house in my hometown is still there, and the children will definitely go back at least during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival. Even if they don't come back to get married and have children, they will have a place to stay. When the house is here, the home is still a complete home. If we can reunite, we will not fall apart, and we will be able to maintain the gradually weak affection.

the parents are still afraid of what happens. If the children are tired of working outside and want to go home, as long as they have a house at home, there is still a way out. Tired, you can go home. When you are old, you can go home to support your old age, grow vegetables, fish and play cards, which are much better than the hustle and bustle of big cities.

My friend's old man is very simple and lovely, saying that other people's homes have built new houses, and if our home can't be built, it will be laughed at by others, so how humiliating it is. Besides, in case the city falls and the children come back, there is still a place to live.

My friend feels the old man's idea, but he still thinks that if he marries and has children in his hometown in the future, it means that his son must also stay in the hill pit, receive the backward education and guard the three points of the acre. Moreover, the budget for building a new house is more than enough to pay the down payment in the city of my hometown. The house price in the city has risen so fast that it is not cost-effective in terms of investment. In a big city, it is enough to have a house to live in, and you don't have to buy a house. It is a waste to build a new house without living.

But isn't it urbanization now? Now the mountain pit, maybe it will become a town in the future, and it will also have infrastructure like that in the city, and maybe it can be demolished.

For most rural people, the house outside is just a residence, the house in my hometown and the place where my parents are, which is the real home. No matter whether there is a house outside or not, whether I really go back in the future, I think what my parents built is more than a house. It is a layer of insurance, a way out for you, and parents' love for you.