Buying a house in the city and wanting to transfer the household registration so the child can go to school there, why is the father dead set against it?
I am 30 years old this year, which counts as the age of independence. I just finished getting married in the second half of last year, and after several years of hard work I finally saved up enough for the down payment on a house, so I thought about buying an apartment in the city.
Buying a house is truly a headache. I went to look at every development, big and small, one by one, and in the end chose one with a suitable layout and average price. After paying the 300,000 yuan down payment, I became a mortgage slave paying off the loan every month, but at least I have my own little nest, painful yet happy.
In the first half of this year my wife got pregnant, and life reached a new starting point: I am going to be a father! Besides working harder, I also spend a lot of time with my wife. When I come home from work I read to the baby for prenatal education, and every day I cook for my pregnant wife. The whole family is happy together, and I am truly content.
Because the city where I live introduced a new policy for household registration admission, buying a house no longer directly grants residency; instead some kind of points-based policy is implemented. As a junior college graduate, I am at a much greater disadvantage compared with bachelor's degree or postgraduate holders. Thinking that the child will definitely go to school in the city after birth, I wanted to solve the household registration problem early so as to avoid future trouble.
Fortunately, the company I work for has a collective household registration, and the threshold for transferring in is not too high either. As long as I meet two years of social insurance and get the company leader's signature, I can transfer in. Of course I would not miss such a good opportunity. After the house is delivered, I can directly transfer it to my own property, which also saves a lot of procedures.
All the paperwork on the company's side has been completed, and I could have smoothly transferred my household registration from my rural hometown into the city, but this matter met with strong opposition from my old father. His reason was actually: a rural household registration is worth more than an urban one!
What he means is that a rural household registration allows you to be allocated farmland and enjoy many subsidies and benefits that an urban household registration cannot get, but I cannot understand it. I have already left the countryside, and the child will definitely go to school in the city in the future. I cannot gamble the next generation's future just for those small benefits, right? I have argued with my father several times over this matter, and I still have not managed to win him over.