''Urban Life" Essay It's true that an increasing number of people are moving to cities in order to improve the quality of their life. Even if cities can provide them with better facilities and job opportunities, the cost of living in cites can be much higher than in countryside and life in cities can be very stressful. There are obvious reasons why living in cities can be very difficult. Firstly, the cost of living is much higher. Most commodities for basic living like food and clothes are much more expensive in cites. In additional, they need to pay the rising rent for houses. Secondly, even though there are lots of jobs with higher salaries, the qualifications for those jobs can be very high and working pressure from those jobs is much higher than living in countryside. Finally, people who migrant to cities after working such stressful circumstance can get some diseases, which can extremely harmful effects on their bodies. Some effective measures must be adopted to improve this situation. Firstly, governments can come up with some powerful regulations to restrict the number of people moving into cities. Furthermore, governments should provide basic financial support to people migrating to cities, such as, providing them with some housing subsidy to lower their living cost. Finally, governments should encourage them to have a balanced life and offer them some guidelines to help them to manage their life and release their stress. In conclusion, it’s clear that cities have a lot of advantages like better jobs opportunities and basic services. But people moving from countryside to live in cities can enjoy a very hard life for above reasons, and also there are some suggestions mentioned above can change the circumstance.