Shall We Flee Big Cities or Not ? A lot of us might have heard this: Flee Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. There are many reasons behind this as people who support this idea might say, such as, the cost of living, a shortage of educational and medical resources and air pollution. However, to the ones who disagree, proofs seem to show that people are actually only thinking about leaving instead of actually doing it. As to the fact the population of the big cities are continuing to rise, some people think that fleeing the big cities is just people’s good wishes to escape from the pressure of living. I, born and raised in Beijing, whose husband also works in Beijing and child attends kindergarten in Beijing, have thought about leaving Beijing too. It’s because of the air pollution. There are all kinds of rumors flying around, such as, in 7 or 8 years, lung cancer will burst in Beijing. But I did see my child cough very often and several friends of my mom dead of lung cancel. So I couldn’t help thinking about leaving Beijing just for the sake of the health of my child and my parents. However, this is also a good wish of mine. With all the friends and relatives of my parents in Beijing, my mom and dad wouldn’t want to move to another city. And it’s not easy for my husband to find another job in a new place neither, which makes it even harder for me and daughter to move to a brand new city. The good thing is, the government seems to making effort on controlling the air pollution, and we did seem to see more blue skies nowadays than before. I would like to do whatever it takes to make the environment better for my children, so maybe fleeing is not an option, but how to face it is what we really need to think about.