People are very interesting creatures who are usually unhappy with many things happening in their lives. However, such dissatisfaction is one of those psychological mechanisms that move us forward to new sensations, emotions and experiences. This is what allows you to break out of your usual routine and throw yourself headlong into the unknown, for example, change your place of residence, moving from a noisy metropolis to a small provincial town, while avoiding many difficulties that will surely await untrained downshifters.
In the life of almost every person living in a metropolis, there comes a moment when he realizes that a frantic rhythm, an endless pursuit of money, status and the resulting inability to fully relax, makes you think about changing your place of residence. Now this phenomenon (downshifting) has become widespread among residents of large cities who dream of peace and quiet. In this article we will consider one of the types of downshifting, namely moving to a small town.
What are the advantages of such a solution?
You will forget what it is like to live in a crowd, queues, traffic jams, gas-polluted air, lack of free time and fear of all kinds of criminals and people from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Great, but how can you move and avoid many of the problems that newcomers face in a new place? Read on and you will surely find out everything.
First of all, in the new place you will need to acquire housing. As a rule, there will be no difficulties with him. Prices are lower than in the capitals (renting a 1-room apartment will cost you only 7-12 thousand rubles). In addition, many apartments are rented from the owner, so you will not need to worry about paying a commission to a realtor. If you decide to settle in a new place on a permanent basis, then a 1-room apartment in the province will cost an average of 1.5-1.8 million rubles.
So, you have already thought and assessed what kind of apartment you need and whether you are moving to permanent residence or not. The second important question you must decide is work. Considering that in the provinces they often have not even heard of such specialists who are in demand, for example, in Moscow, it makes sense to find yourself some kind of remote work. This will allow you to both do your favorite job and earn an order of magnitude more than employers pay employees in small towns. Another problem of finding a job in the provinces is that the so-called "grain" places, through which financial flows pass, in small towns are usually occupied by "their" people. Therefore, remote work can be a kind of lifeline for you.
Don't lose touch with your friends. In the provinces, you may have difficulty communicating with the locals. For them, you will be a fat-mad metropolitan eccentric, while they are supposedly busy with hard work to get their livelihood.
What might you not like?
Boredom may attack you sooner or later. A meager assortment of goods, a very small number of exhibitions, museums, concerts, trainings, conferences and seminars. Perhaps only with cinemas and nightclubs is complete order. After a bustling metropolis, you may get the impression that nothing is happening here at all.
Bad infrastructure. Broken roads, lack of street lighting, sidewalks uncleaned from snow - this is not a complete list of what you may have to face.
Increased attention from others. One of the side effects of the fact that in small cities there are significant problems with leisure, and this is compensated by the fact that people start looking at each other more: who is dressed like, who went where, what they bought, etc.
Be that as it may, know that there will be no problem-free moving, and in the new place you will have to overcome some difficulties. In this article, I have told you about the advantages and disadvantages of living in the province. How to dispose of this information is up to you. I only wish: "Bon voyage!"
