Migration is a change for better, right?

Migration from a rural area to urban ones is a good change, right? This question is subjective and can have some answers, based on my story, I can say that everything depends of how you face it.

So, when a was a Kid, we used to live in rural areas, I was at the age of 4-5 years, and I pretty much don’t remember a thing of were I used to live, my parents weren’t a wealthy couple in any way, and I was the oldest of two kids. We weren’t having much trouble with the family income and we used to live a happy life. But, one day, the government put new taxes on farmers.

This was a big hit to my family due to that dad was a farmer and the main source of income. My family couldn’t afford to live there anymore as farmers, after a extended discussion, my family agreed to move from the farm to the closer city nearby.  

The next day we packaged our stuff and we instantly left. The plan was to stay a few days with our uncle that was already living there and try finding a low-income job that doesn´t require much experience our education.

The very first day was a hell on the earth, food and other resources were very expensive, there were new things I´ve never saw, but we couldn´t afford them anyway. Days passed and we found other problems than the scarce of money, we found ourselves living in a shanty part of the city, were street crime and gangs were something common. We worried fort our security, but we couldn’t do anything, we had to live like this some more weeks. 

Until mom found a job in a restaurant closer to some apartment’s buildings, pretty cheap apartments closer to the center of the city, that seemed like a dreamed situation back then, but some days passed before in backfired, one day I fell very sick, so my parents took me to a health center, very cool that it was partially free health care, the doctors found that it was due the pollution of the air that I wasn´t used to live. I stayed in the health center a few days before recover.

Then everything went better for us, my father got another job at a park, better than the last one, and we kept upgrading our ways of living. As a conclusion we could say that people who migrant to rural areas to urban ones are likely to face a lot of problems, related with security, social pressure, higher costs of living and even health. But everything could be worth once you get used to live with it and keep upgrading your living conditions.