Shenzhen RV couples mocked as "parking lot beggars" 

Client: The RV is not a whim, and I don't care about other people's opinions

　　On September 2, the topic #RVCouples responded to being called a beggar in the parking lot# rushed to the hot search on Weibo.

In the thread, a couple responded to the controversy caused by living in an RV through a video.

They said that choosing a RV is a way of life, they will not care about the controversy on the Internet, and will try to live a good life.

　　Recently, a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News contacted the couple who were in a storm of public opinion.

Facing online doubts about posing for pictures and showing off, Zhang Xi and Hu Anyuan said frankly that their personalities belonged to "regular and unconventional", "the RV is not a whim, we probably spent a little bit of money before moving in. years to 'do your homework'."

The little couple who used to live peacefully 

Choose to fight in a big city for 5 years

　　On the short video platform, the blogger "Deep Drift RV Diary" often updates his RV life with his girlfriend in Shenzhen.

Watching the sunset at the beach, making coffee, and driving away from the city on weekends... One car, two people, three meals, four seasons, and his comfortable life often attracts the envy of many netizens.

But recently, the couple has been ridiculed by some netizens as "parking lot beggars" due to problems such as parking and supplies.

　　On September 3, the reporter contacted the couple Zhang Xi and Hu Anyuan.

When the interview phone was called, Zhang Xi had just gotten off work and was walking back to the RV.

He told reporters that he and his girlfriend were not affected by the doubts on the Internet. At present, the two are still working and living normally. "I understand the doubts of netizens, but we don't care too much. We just want to live our own lives."

　　According to Zhang Xi, he and his girlfriend Hu Anyuan are both from other provinces, and they only went to Shenzhen from Shiyan, Hubei to work hard in July last year.

Before arriving in Shenzhen, they had a stable job and a stable life in their hometown. "Our two personalities belong to 'regular and unconventional', so between continuing to live a stable life and fighting in big cities, we I chose the latter."

　　When they first arrived in Shenzhen, the two rented a single room less than ten square meters in Longhua District together.

Every morning, Hu Anyuan takes nearly two hours to go to work in the company in Futian District. "If you arrive at the company at 8:30, you have to get up at 6:30, and you have to transfer three subways and one bus to get to the company." Renting life, Hu Anyuan described as "like going back and forth on a fixed track", and the life of two points and one line has overdrawn most of her energy.

　　In addition to the trouble of commuting, the high rental cost is also unbearable for them.

Zhang Xi said that the monthly cost of renting a house is 2,500 yuan, plus the commuting cost of 800 yuan and some necessary living expenses, they spend nearly 7,000 yuan each month, "Our salary is not high, Renting costs a lot of money. And we plan to live for more than five years, so we thought maybe if we bought a motorhome, we might be able to recoup that cost.”

　　RVs are not a whim

　　"Doing homework" a year in advance

　　After thinking about it, Zhang Xi and Hu Anyuan finally decided to buy a second-hand RV.

"The idea of ​​RVs actually sprouted before coming to Shenzhen." Zhang Xi said that he and his girlfriend had followed many bloggers related to RV travel on the short video platform a long time ago, and yearned for the bloggers in their videos. "Poems and Distances".

Likewise, they understand that there are a number of real-world factors to consider when watching a video versus moving in, "so it took us about a year to do our homework before moving into an RV."

　　Zhang Xi told reporters that from car selection to car purchase to renovation, they had made adequate preparations before each step, "First of all, we learned about the advantages and disadvantages of RVs from a number of RV owners, and went to inspect the vehicle models on the spot. And the size of the space. After spending 130,000 to buy a second-hand car, we conducted a 2-month trial to adapt and found the unreasonable parts of the car, and finally planned and remodeled.”

　　When it comes to RV renovation, Hu Anyuan's tone is full of trust in her boyfriend.

She said that, apart from electricity and wood processing, Zhang Xi did the rest of the transformation process by himself: he taught himself a modification tutorial in a short video, and he also consulted experienced modification car owners, and even went to the modification factory to ask for professional advice. personnel.

On June 28, Zhang Xi and Hu Anyuan officially moved into the RV.

　　Since Zhang Xi's work is related to the operation of new media, and he wants to accumulate more editing experience, all their experiences of buying a car, refitting, and moving into an RV were edited and published on the short video platform "Deep Drift RV Diary". on an account.

"The RV is just for the purpose of shooting videos", "It's impossible to live in the RV for so long", "They are beggars in the parking lot"... As the voices of doubts increased, Zhang Xi and Hu Anyuan had to choose to go public respond.

　　"We didn't go to the RV for the purpose of shooting videos, but after we had the RV, we started to make a self-media account." Zhang Xi told reporters that it was because he wanted to record the process when he refitted the RV, so he posted it as a short message. on the video account.

Later, after moving into the RV and starting to share the daily life of the home, I thought about making this account.

　　When talking about the future, they both held a firm attitude, "In short, we don't care too much about other people's opinions, we just want to live our own lives."

　　Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Luo Mengjie

　　Intern Li Ying