I heard there was a time before I was born when it wasn’t allowed, but I’m not very familiar with that part of history. After I was born, there were no restrictions at all, and the transportation was very convenient.
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Hum, I saw a podcast recently from a Portuguese person saying that have restrictions, that you are only allowed to move to a new city in certain circunstancies, like if you are approved to study in a University, things like this.
What I mean by move, is change residency. Live in another city that you were not born.
I kind of know what he's talking about, but his understanding is wrong. Simply put, everyone belongs to a certain city. You can go to any city to live and work. But if you don't belong to that city, you'll lack some benefits and rights, like in aspects such as healthcare, education, and house-buying. When you meet certain conditions, you can change the city you belong to, and the conditions vary from city to city. But in recent years, the gap in benefits and rights between these two types of identities has been gradually narrowing. So this system doesn't hold much significance anymore, and it's just a matter of time before it gets abolished.
my country is same, but I thought every country have same system like this, or western counties are different?
Western countries we can live and buy houses in any city we want. No restrictions.
yup, the part "live" is same, but in my country the requirement for "buy houses" have some restrictions before, but nowadays it almost no exist. Like Cody said, it's just a matter of time before it gets fully abolished.
Property purchase restrictions mainly depend on housing prices. When prices rise too fast, the government tightens controls. But since prices are falling now, those rules are easing up. Honestly, past data shows these measures don't really work that well.