It is very common in Chungliao to have a situation in which young parents have left the village to work, while the grandparents remain behind, raising fruit as always, and taking cross-generational responsibility for the education of the grandchildren.
像這樣年輕父母皆出外打拚，徒留阿公、阿媽在家裡種水果、帶孫子的隔代教養方式普遍存在中寮。