Chinese mother spends savings on tiny flat to escape hectic home, work twice a week, resonates with many women
- Woman gets idea during Covid-19 lockdown with family, wants own place
- Flat is only 25 metres square, spaces for work, reading, yoga, tea with friends
A mother in China who paid 500,000 yuan (US$69,000) for a 25-square-metre flat as a sanctuary for herself, has attracted empathy on mainland social media.
Gong Yan, in her early 30s, from the city of Changzhou in Jiangsu province, eastern China, is a married mother of one son.
She spent her savings on the little home where she enjoys being alone two days a week, Toutiao News reported.
Gong, who runs a finance company, got the idea of owning her own place during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when she shared a 130-square-metre flat with her husband, son, and parents-in-law.
During that challenging time, as she catered to the needs of others in the multiple roles of wife, mother and daughter-in-law, it made her think about what she wanted for herself.
She made the decision to create a personal space by spending her savings on a tiny flat in 2021.
