As the technology of public transportation keeps advancing, more citizens can choose to dw
ell in the cities that are beneficial to their own development. Inevitably, there occurs a
controversy whether moving to a new city or country will lead to the rupture of relations
hip among friends. From my perspective, the statement is not sensible for the following re
asons.Firstly, moving to a new country or city will not result in the loss of old friends.
To be more specific, the maintenance of friendship doesn’t lie in how far they live with
each other and the development of technology has diversified the ways of interacting with
friends. For instance, the invention of cellphones breaks the shackles caused by distance
and overseas students can choose to communicate with their family members and friends thro
ugh a variety of Apps like WeChat which makes video calls possible. Except for that, by lo
oking at the pictures readily accessible through the social media like Facebook, people ca
n easily capture what is happening to their friends. For instance, my friend Selina took s
elfie in the Sydney Opera House a week ago and I would learn that she was having fun in th
e Australia with her picture posted on the Instagram. Therefore, a wide range of advanced
electronic gadgets can be used to sustain friendship. Moreover, instead of losing old frie
nds, city migrants can even enlarge their social circles and achieve more success. Restric
ted in a city for a long period, people may be trapped in a situation that would block the
ir development and they can gain refreshing experience while immigrating to a new city. A
friend of Mine named Michael served as a Market Analyst in a start-up company in Beijing.
However, he couldn’t see any progress in recent years and then an opportunity comes out. B
ecause of his five-year working experience, a foreign trade cooperation tried to recruit h
im as the Market Analyst because the firm was planning to start a new program. Then he gra
sped the chance and earn a challenging life that he likes even though he was required to w
ork in Shanghai. Our relationship has not experienced any interruption and his strong abil
ity of being adapted to the new environment helps him to make lots of new friends. Accordi
ngly, moving to a new city can, occasionally, help to break the deadlock in our profession
s. Admittedly, it can be sensible that friends can be estranged owing to the long distance
with each other. Specifically speaking, the chances to meet with each other will be limit
ed a lot. However, as I just put, for one thing, people can talk with each other through v
arious social network software. For another thing, the distance between cities is not a pr
oblem anymore since there have been many public transportation tools like the high-speed t
rains and airplanes that will lead us to anyplace we try to go in a very short period.In a
word, moving to a new city or a new country is good choice under some circumstance. Besid
es, the highly developed technology can help to strengthen the relations with our friends
and the possibilities of living a different life and achieving success can both explain wh
y I stand by the statement that it is a good thing to move to a new city.