Respiratory cost

What you breathe in big cities are sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, inhalable particles, heavy metals and viruses, which come from factory sewage, motor vehicle exhaust, construction dust, fog, haze, cigarettes, air conditioners and the body odor of millions of people. After that, it is not cheap to treat allergic rhinitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. Zhong Nanshan said: "People over 50 years old in Guangzhou have black lungs."

Sub-health cost

Sub-health is the faithful companion of "poor and busy people" The sub-health rates of Beijingers, Shanghainese and Cantonese are 75.3 1%, 73.49% and 73.4 1%, respectively, leading the country. Sub-health is a critical state between health and disease. White-collar workers in big cities work nervously in this non-disease state until they are exhausted. Because it is not a disease, the medical insurance card can't help.

Promotion cost

There are only old people and students in the morning exercise field, and most office workers exercise in the gym. Get a New Year card, hire a personal trainer once or twice a week, until three days of fishing and two days of drying the net, and finally give up. On weekends, we rent a stadium and take yoga classes. Many people forget to go upstairs and do push-ups on the floor at home.

Personal accident cost

The probability of personal injury caused by the following behaviors in big cities is much higher than that in small and medium-sized cities: squeezing and trampling, throwing objects at high altitude, building accidents, falling people from high altitude (see Nanjing News on August 12, 2008), robbery in remote places, traffic accidents, and murder cases in downtown areas. ...

Anxiety cost

Anxiety has become the original sin of urbanites, and believers in "successful learning" are very anxious. Don't read newspapers, don't surf the Internet, have information anxiety, vacation anxiety, single anxiety, marriage anxiety, housing anxiety, work anxiety, job-hopping anxiety, pregnancy anxiety, gender anxiety, school choice anxiety, middle-aged anxiety-none of them are carefree.

Low emotional cost

Anger, sadness, depression, boredom, loneliness, powerlessness ... these negative emotions will be seen by the boss, and they will suspect that their attitude is not correct and will affect their work; Self-digestion requires shopping, chatting, socializing, overeating, backpacking and other expensive and time-consuming behaviors.

Call cost

Where are you going to find an ear that hasn't slept at midnight? It's hard to vent your thoughts without revealing your privacy. So I paid to see a psychiatrist. If you want to save money, you can find a newspaper supplement editor and contribute a bad story for free.

Anti-interference cost

No matter work or leisure, what is lacking most is a long and complete time. Everything you are doing may be interrupted by another thing, another person or countless text messages and phone calls.

MSN chooses "Offline", QQ chooses "Stealth", and the mobile phone chooses "Go to the Secretary Desk"-undisturbed and don't want to miss the opportunity.

Spouse selection cost

In the matter of choosing a spouse, for a time, people from all walks of life felt that their circle was too narrow and there was too little communication. Everyone is above the top and picky. In fact, it is basically the source of the opposite sex such as friends gathering or introduction, online dating, office, blind date, affair, etc. After several unreliable relationships and blind dates, you may choose to stay single.

Emotional stability cost

The high divorce rate of love in big cities is related to the fast-food love and weak moral concept in stranger society. People are more selfish. They won't give each other. They just save them and want to seize new opportunities at any time. There are so many temptations from the opposite sex, and the threshold for cheating is so low. You don't know how much you have to pay for your feelings and marriage.

Invalid work cost

Competitive statements, dead drafts, revised proposals and work schedules over and over again, brainstorming to deadlock, contract termination, meeting cancellation, customer dissatisfaction, leaders changing their minds ... The end point returned to the starting point, and a job triggered N jobs, sowing dragon seeds and giving birth to fleas.

call-back pay

The most terrible thing about overtime is not to occupy private time, but to turn private time work into daily work. Treating women as men and men as animals, only work without life, advocating overtime and not advocating overtime pay, is also a kind of "Qingming Riverside Map" in big cities.

Effective reading cost

Buy a bunch of magazines before boarding the plane, and don't want to take them off the plane at all; After surfing the internet for two hours, I didn't find a useful piece of information. Surfing the Internet on mobile phones and watching TV on mobile phones are just entertainment; After reading more than a dozen bestsellers and management books, I still don't have enough brains, but I really want to know how the competitors charge.

Charge cost

Charging in the workplace is not the concept of reading at all: reading an MBA to expand contacts, attending exhibitions to make friends with industry resources, receiving spiritual training to reshape yourself, attending alternative parties to collect information, buying databases to analyze customer resources ... Time costs can no longer be measured by money.

Leading cost

A book can be included in the County Records, and driving a BMW can attract the attention of the whole city, which is impossible in a big city. There are more and more outstanding people, people who love to show off, people with stories, people with backgrounds, entrepreneurs, people who dare to take off, and people who can operate and speculate. Why do you get rich? You can try to be a white-collar worker, a backbone and an elite, but you can't.

Cheating cost

"My account can't be used, please remit the money directly to this agricultural bank card ..." The skill of the liar can't pass you, but it has improved. It is impossible to prevent you from being cheated by strangers, but by machines, systems, friends, classmates and acquaintances, and even your personal information has been resold many times to attract people to cheat you.

Queuing cost

You have to queue up to buy tickets, wait for the bus, get on the bus, wait for the affordable room and get the pass. You almost suspect that everyone in your county put on T-shirts and dresses and went to the city.

The cost of counting sheep

"Every time in the dead of night, I can't sleep. I don't know if it's just my tomorrow that doesn't get better. " I can't sleep under pressure. Most people who don't sleep well in China are in cities. The pace of life in Shenzhen is extremely fast and the nightlife is rich. A large number of people are troubled by insomnia.

Fashion cost

In a small city, there is a new suit in January that may lead colleagues and friends; In big cities, you have to compare the brands in coated paper magazines with the new styles in fashion season, which should be both high-end and personalized. Clothes are not enough, so are bags, hairstyles, watches, shoes, cosmetics, perfumes, tattoos, buzzwords and reading materials. Of course, the premise of all this is to keep white and thin.

The cost of eating meat

When Pig Bajie is more expensive than Tang Priest, box lunch is the gospel of the poor. Material-rich cities fully highlight the CPI increase, the Gini coefficient only rises but does not fall, and instant noodles also sell best. The discount season of various commodities is longer than the whole year, and brand-name discount stores, discount bookstores, Carrefour and IKEA are all very popular. It is good news to raise wages and raise the tax threshold.

The cost of mountains and water

The cost of stopping on the mountain is 10 thousand times more expensive than climbing the mountain; Looking at the price of a polluted river is equivalent to the price of harnessing this river-this is the real estate in big cities. The luxury house takes mountains and rivers as the scenery, simulating the natural pastoral style, but it also needs urban lots and European and American quality, which is not what the average urban working class can count on.

Noise cost

Elevated roads, restaurants, song and dance halls, KTV, construction sites, garage, cooling towers, stereos, morning exercises for the elderly air conditioners, the more complex and diverse urban functions, the more noise. The cost of sound insulation lies not only in double-glazed windows, but also in hearing loss, restless sleep and upset.

Urban village cost

Finding a job and renting a house is the first step to settle down in the city. Dealing with landlords is as important as dealing with bosses. The lowest rental cost is the village in the city. The village in the city is the land without owner and the capital of crime in high-rise buildings, and it is also a breathing space and training ground to win the living space of big cities. The "gold diggers" who leave their hometown and work units to go to big cities grow up painfully in the experience of renting houses in cities and villages in cities.

parking fee

Urban planning lags behind, private car consumption accelerates, and parking is difficult to become an important factor that makes big cities uninhabitable. Parking costs are higher than property management costs, and the latter can be solved by money, while the former has a price tag and no parking space, which makes private cars like overpopulation and the use of private transportation a disaster.

Traffic congestion cost

The congestion cost of commuting every month, Beijingers reach 375 yuan, accounting for12.5% of income; Followed by Guangzhou people 273.8 yuan, Shanghai people 228.2 yuan, Chengdu people 92.6 yuan and Xi people 69.4 yuan. According to the research report of Futian Index in 2008, this calculation is incomplete, and the "road rage" caused by total commuting cost and traffic jams has not been taken into account. The feeling of life stuck on the road is terrible, but it is normal in big cities.

Waiting cost

Arriving at the airport in advance, boarding in advance, security check in advance, and waiting in advance can not guarantee boarding on time. Economy class passengers and business class passengers are treated equally, stranded on the isolated island of the airport, and the plane delay is often not explained accurately, so they have to enjoy boring and expensive meals. Airports in big cities are always remote. It hides in the country and is born for another city. Compared with this city, this is a fake trip.

Return home cost

Hometown is the backyard of a big city, so returning home becomes particularly crowded, tedious and hard. Tickets and air tickets have to be bought again, no matter how busy the work is, no matter how crowded people are, as long as roads are not blocked by heavy snow, trains are not stopped, airports and highways are not closed. Therefore, returning home is not only the cost of living in big cities, but also a temporary escape and liberation from big cities.

Walking cost

Shopping is for shopping, walking is for getting from place A to place B, running is for fitness, and pressing the road is for falling in love. It is daunting to simply walk without any meaning. The concept of time is deeply rooted in the hearts of big cities. The general mentality is to pursue fast, enjoy busy and take efficiency as an opportunity. Every step has a purpose. It is impossible to earn money by working, or to find a program to play and take a walk.

Pet cost

Animals are friends of human beings, lonely people need them, and families with children love them, provided that they have to pay more government fees, endure more taboos in public places, pay more expensive pet hospital treatment fees and apologize to their neighbors. Men keep dogs, women keep cats, and people with personality keep snakes and pigs. The status of pets has been upgraded to almost the same as that of their other half or family members, and people unconsciously don't love "people" enough.

Thoreau's cost of living

Li Yinhe said: "Quiet, calm, purified, quiet, pure, simple, naive, happy ... this is Thoreau's lifestyle and attitude towards life. If I want to make my life happy, I should keep this attitude towards life. This is the life I pursue. " Unfortunately, this is the only cost of living that people living in big cities cannot afford. In other words, if they intend to do so, they would rather live in the countryside like Thoreau.