Wa Family and Gu Family lived in the same county town.
Gu Family resided near the old city center, while Wa Family lived a bit farther away, in an area that had never been the city center. However, due to real estate development in the county over the past few years, property values in the area where Wa Family lived had risen.
The Wa Family's old house belonged to Wa Dad's friends, who had found it for the widowed mother and son after Wa Dad died. It was an old dormitory for a work unit and looked fairly decent.
Now, following the upgrade in property development led by Zhou Jin, the price of houses had similarly risen, but just like the Gu Family's property, the ownership rights were not theirs. The rights belonged to the work unit's collective dormitory; without a property certificate, selling it would be a troublesome issue.
Back then, Wa Mom said that Wa Family and Gu Family were well-matched precisely because of their similar housing issues.
