If you are moving from a rural area to a city, you probably read this

By: Tatiana Fonseca

When I was 5 years old my parents decided to move from a small town called Yaruqui to the city of Quito because my father had gotten a job where he was paid more and my mother, like my father, got a new job where she worked fewer hours. Since I was little I do not remember most of what I lived with my grandparents. Now that we went to visit my grandparents and I was almost 16 years old, my grandfather decided to explain to me how hard it was for them to let us go and he explained how it affected our relationship with my grandparents.

 This surprised me because as I was a little, I thought that it did not affect anyone in my family, my grandfather while crying told me how in the afternoons he had no one to play with since he always spent them playing with me and at night he only thought about my family. My grandmother told me that for a long time she was sad because she always cooked for the whole family and now that she only had to cook for two people she felt bad, she thought that the best thing she could do for us was to cook for the whole family because she is very good at it. When my grandparents told me this I realized that at a certain point it also affected me because my mom told me that in the first days that we migrate I cried and now I realize that I miss them because in that time I spent more time with them because my fathers had to work. 

Now I will explain all the good things that provided living in Quito

One of the main advantages was that I could spend more time with my parents since my dad worked from Monday to Sunday and now only from Monday to Friday as I said before I could see my mom more time and I ate with her every day, I could have signal and internet whenever I wanted because in Yaruqui it failed a lot and the signal was almost not worth it. Another advantage was that you could order food delivery like uber eats; I was able to go to a IB school.

Now I will explain all the bad things that provided living in Quito

One of the main disadvantages of living in the city is the polluted air, besides the loud sound of cars during the day and night, as for what I have lived in the city I can say that it is more dangerous than Yaruqui because we can see in the news that there is alot of dangerous and one of the disadvantages that I hate more is that there are many people everywhere.

But now I realize that changes are good and at the same time bad because going from one place to another causes you to be separated from your family and at the same time everyone suffers but sometimes changes are necessary in this case they were necessary because my dad could earn more money  so the family had a life where we were provided for. These changes can make you feel lonely like my grandfather but with my parents, we always tried to visit them as much as possible as well as with my grandfather and my grandfather. In conclusion, there are many reasons that people have to migrate but with the past of the time and the support of your family and friends, you can do it and you can pass any difficult time.