VNExpress-Feb 14
Most residents of the Tan Trai Village in Hanoi have found parking a far more lucrative vocation than farming, given their proximity to the Noi Bai Airport.
Previously, Nguyen Van Thanh and his wife, like most people in Tan Trai Village, Phu Cuong Commune, Soc Son District, made a living by growing rice and other crops. In 1995, when Noi Bai Airport built the domestic terminal T1, a part of the family’s field was taken away because it was located in the planned area. By the time the international terminal T2 was built, his family only had about 200 square meters of land left. In 2014, seeing that many customers wanted to go by car from the city to the airport and needed space to park their car, some families in the village began offering car parking services. Thanh discussed with his younger brother the possibility of using the garden land that his parents had left them to open a parking lot. Since 2018, the demand for parking cars near the airport has been increasing. On average, each day, Thanh, his wife and his brother make around 50 trips from their house to the airport, about a kilometer away, to receive and return cars to customers. Their daily income is three times higher than what they earned on the rice field, enough to bring their children up and save some money.
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