But actually parents prefer the more peaceful and more slow-paced country life, for they have developed their life-long habits there and they have everything familiar there.

但实际上父母们更喜欢较安静和缓慢的农村生活，因为他们在那里形成了他们的生活习惯，他们熟悉一切。

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But for many other hutong, the future of their slow-paced, village-like way of life hangs precariously in the balance.

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