Abstract
To encourage young people to return to and repopulate mountainous villages, we need to understand how young women evaluate the living conditions of such villages. In this paper, we have investigated the reasons why young women migrate from mountainous villages, by assessing their actual living conditions and obtaining their evaluation of their living conditions. These young women shop in nearby urban centers and travel by cars; they do not face any major problems in their daily lives. However, their level of consciousness varies due to their place of birth and ensuing life experiences that lead to the development of different values. First, we found that many residents of rural areas experience several inconveniences in life and express strong dissatisfaction with their situation. Second, despite their dissatisfaction, many residents accept their living conditions. Third, some residents are satisfied by their closeness to nature and their pursuit of self-sufficiency in mountainous villages and are less bothered by the inconveniences. The above results seem to be influenced by various subjective lifestyle aspirations, which motivate some young people to migrate from mountain villages in pursuit of a different way of life.
