White collar come to Chengdu for easy life

Tired of the fast paced, high pressure life, many white collar workers regard Chengdu as their first choice for relocation. Experts believe that white collar workers' choice to relocate indicates social progress.

When night fell, Ms Wen appeared in a street near Chengdu Institute Sichuan International Studies University in the western High-tech Industrial Development Zone district. She took out a collection of fashionable accessories and scarves from a large bag, and unskillfully arranged them on a piece of plastic laid on the ground. About 10 minutes later, a street stall was set up. Wen was a white collar worker in Shanghai where she built a successful career and married. With a desire to lead an easy life, she retired and moved to Chengdu. Now she runs a street stall and lives happily. Chengdu has been called "a city you don’t want to leave." Many white collar workers, who have become tired of the fast paced and high pressure life, regard Chengdu as their first choice for relocation.

White collar come to Chengdu for easy life

Giving up a high salary and running a street stall, Wen looks happy and satisfied.

Wen living in Xicheng Garden Community is from Zhejiang Province. She moved to Chengdu from Shanghai only in July this year. She has run a street stall for several months, but her business is not good. One day she only sold one scarf and several accessories between 7pm and 9pm. The scarf was priced at 20 yuan but sold for 18 yuan. Wen said, "I only earned one or two yuan on the scarf."

Wen looked happy and satisfied despite her bad business. She said, "As a kind of life experience, it is also a reward."

Wen had a good job with a monthly salary of over 6,000 yuan in Shanghai. She was a typical white collar worker. She became worried and sensitive about facing the same work and life every day. Tired of being a white collar worker with a life of high pressure, Wen quit her job and decided to move to another city with her husband "to have a different life."

Wen and her husband chose Chengdu because they think that Chengdu is well-known for being a city where life is more relaxing and comfortable. Wen indeed lives a very happy and enriched life in Chengdu now. She never regrets her choice even when her husband's street stall business is not good and often restricted by urban management officers. "At least being in such a comprehensive city and leading a comfortable life has helped me find my real self and live a life that is exactly what I want."