To enjoy better healthcare and education.
The young people of Lin Family Village were all striving to establish themselves in urban Rao City.
At the very least, you had to own an apartment in the Yu County seat.
Only then were you eligible to go on blind dates and meet prospective partners.
The houses in the village could hardly be called houses anymore; they were just cast-in-place concrete shells.
Few young people wanted to live in the village.
Those who stayed were mostly empty-nest seniors.
There were fewer and fewer young people and children.
Over a decade ago, Lin Family Village Primary School had still offered all six grades.
It had grades one through six, with a dozen to twenty students in each class.
Now, each grade had only one or two students, and some had none at all.
The students and teachers of the entire Lin Family Village Primary School numbered fewer than thirty, and it was on the verge of closing.
Most of the teachers at the village school were older teachers nearing retirement, too.
What parent would want their child attending a school like that?
Even if they could not afford an apartment in the county seat yet, they would find a way to rent one so their children could attend schools there and receive a better education.
For various reasons, residential plots in Lin Family Village rarely changed hands.
On top of that, labor and materials were very expensive now.
Even building a house in the village would cost a hundred or two hundred thousand yuan.
With renovations, furniture, and appliances included, being able to move in for three or four hundred thousand was already pretty good.
Who would be foolish enough to spend hundreds of thousands building a house in the village?
So many old