Migration

 Hello everyone, 

I write this blog because I want to tell you that I moved, from my rural home to a new city one, but this happened when I was a child, my grandfather told me the impact we had and the influence our family has about it now. As many people know, this is called migration or immigration depending on what side you are. My grandfather says that the rural area had many difficulties to keep living there, especially in the world we are now, we were living in the rural area since the colonization (not going to expand a lot on that, but a lot of history events led us divided here). Families and society were very expanded, so I had to walk 15 minutes till my neighbor´s home. My dad was farmer, and my mom was housekeeper, they only did what they need to survive, we ate what we farmed and lived where we build. My grandfather did that with his family and his father the same, it was a tradition but a tradition of stay there forever. I am not saying I didn’t liked life there or that rural people are suffering, but my families’ desires were different, so we only could see the bad things. I study only the farm things, only the things a child could handle. My parents planned to move when they thought the cultivation was not improving, they also thought of the education I must and should have, so we moved to an urbanization area, which has its benefits and disadvantages, my grandfather days. 

First, we packed everything, except the farm things, and we started the trip in our old van. I barely can remember that, but my grandfather says it was a long boring trip, but he was fine cause he felt in home in that old van. We rent and apartment in downtown cause it was cheaper to live in the area that had all from the city, even if the apartment as it was kind of expensive. We are living in it since then, now it seems like home, but it always felt like that. Being in the city is amazing, I go to school now and I learn more than how to treat a seed, but I never lost the interested of the farming stuff, I combined it with everything now. My grandfather says that the big change is the transportation and the health system, in the rural area we didn’t have hospitals or at least not as big as these one, probably I would go there just to see how it works, must be amazing. Also, the transportation, it is easy for me since a take it every day for school, but my grandfather always confuses and don’t know how it works, it’s kind of adorable, he is patience with himself and laugh about it. Our initial problems were that is a different system and a different culture, they are all into their life and only their life, and I get it, in a busy city you got a busy life. We adapt and learn all by ourselves, my parents and I are now good citizens with busy life’s.  

Now I can say that rural area has its difficulties and benefits but I already get used to them, it's awesome how two different worlds coexists in the same planet, if there are any other rural friend out there, I hope you are happy where you are and if not, u can always ask for help to mutuals as me. And if you live in a city but feels like you will be better in the rural, there are also help, ask my grandfather for more information about how is to live in the rural area and how fun it could be.