Current Events > Do you also wish you lived in Japan?

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And before you respond, please spare me all the generic arguments about why Japan is actually not a '''''paradise'''' tyvm. I've heard them all and I still wish I lived there. Anyone else agree?

Fuck no.

I think the draw is just it being different with out it sounding so overwhelmingly oppressive. Of course, it entirely depends on the line of work you end up with. Like YouTubers that put it in a really good light are of a very small percentage. Some of them already started rich.

Sometimes I do entertain the fantasy about settling down there, but generally, no. I don't think I could put up with living there.

Nah. Unless it's like outside the city.

I have no interest in living in a place where I cannot understand anything but the random tourist bits.

I don't even want to visit there

No.

Maybe I'll visit Japan but I definitely wouldn't want to live in Japan.

Arcades are nice, friendly people no doubt, amazing culture...

But it's not something that suits me 100%. Plus my family and friends is here in the states so that's a major deal breaker for me

Irony posted...

I don't even want to visit there

why

Damn_Underscore posted...

why

Some people don't like to leave places. I know some people who still live in my hometown with 100k population and the bowling alley and mini-golf is enough excitement for them.

Maybe on one of the outlying islands the US didn't keep after the war.

No.

Sitting on your back legs is painful.

seiza position is rare and uncommon nowadays.

Also, there are cockroaches in the houses.

No. I'd like to visit again someday if I can. I probably won't though

I got to go in 2004. Was very fun but I also learned I would not be able to live there. Maybe if I dint have so many problems I might be able to. But Japan is not a good place for an autistic foreigner

I like spicy food and don't care much for Japan's obsession with work or its take on Confucian honor.

I'd love to visit someday and I really admire much of their entertainment but I would not want to live there.

I cant speak Japanese, so no.

PerseusRad posted...

I cant speak Japanese, so no.

It's okay. They can speak english pretty good.

Song_of posted...

It's okay. They can speak english pretty good.

This is not true.

DeadBankerDream posted...

This is not true.

It's sort of both true and not true

My experience in 2004 was that most adults are capable of conversation. But they don't feel very confident, and prefer not to use their English skills unless they are forced to

"This is my house! Also how did you get in here?"

If I was rich yeah but if I had to work there I probably wouldn't enjoy it. I have a friend that lived there for a few years teaching English in School and they were pretty miserable. They have weird social norms like if you're done with your work early for the day you're expected to linger around "just in case" you're needed until it's your normal time to go home. Also they were oddly adverse to her using her phone during lunch, like it was some social taboo. Not sure if it was common or just a quirk of where she was though.

Vyrulisse posted...

If I was rich yeah but if I had to work there I probably wouldn't enjoy it. I have a friend that lived there for a few years teaching English in School and they were pretty miserable. They have weird social norms like if you're done with your work early for the day you're expected to linger around "just in case" you're needed until it's your normal time to go home. Also they were oddly adverse to her using her phone during lunch, like it was some social taboo. Not sure if it was common or just a quirk of where she was though.

shieet, if i was rich I would travel all over japan. Hokkaido, Tokyo, kyoto, even the okinawa islands.

Was there for 10 years on a navy base. Real close to tokyo. Loved it.