Many Countries today are experiencing high levels of migration from rural areas to cities. What are the causes of this trend, and what effects does it have on the existing city dwellers?

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Migration from
countryside
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the countryside
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to urban
areas
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has been a popular phenomenon in many nations of the world for many years. There are some reasons and impacts on
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residents which will be discussed in
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with, the main cause of migration is the availability of more job opportunities in the
cities
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. Due to the fact that in rural
areas
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, jobs are mainly related to
agriculture
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the agriculture
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sector, which is being mechanized,
less
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human resources are needed.
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, many young people are not into
field work
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. They like to challenge themselves with more advance and high technology
career
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. Many high tech companies are located in urban
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.
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, the payment in many industrial and financing
areas
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are much higher than that from agriculture work.
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, according to recent research, the salary of
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the banking
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sector on average is three times higher than that of
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the agricultural
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sector.
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but not least, the young generation
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to make
big
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a big
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change
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to
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their life. They want to have a better future prospect for
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generation.
Cities
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offer a lot of opportunities and have better infrastructure, health care and education facilities. There are two consequences stemmed from
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phenomenon.
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, more people coming to the
cities
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will place more pressure on the current infrastructure. Overcrowding and traffic congestion
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from day
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today
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can easily
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in many
cities
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in
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not only in developing countries
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as Thailand, Vietnam but
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in more developed countries like Japan.
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, more people will result in more competition for the same job. On top of that, the flux of migrants will
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cause housing prices
accelerated
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.
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an inevitable consequence when the demand is becoming greater than the demand. To conclude, migration is an inevitable tendency that required the
closed
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collaboration of government, companies and individuals. Living
condition
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conditions
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for rural
areas
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should be paid more attention
and
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improved.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • urbanization
  • rural depopulation
  • economic opportunities
  • infrastructure
  • livelihoods
  • overpopulation
  • cultural integration
  • affordability
  • public services
  • housing prices
  • workforce
  • economic growth
  • cultural diversity
  • climate change
  • natural disasters
  • basic services
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