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 Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:10 am
LIVE IN JAPAN??? YES YES YES YES!!!! whee whee whee whee
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:38 pm
I honestly would although of course the change in cultures as well as the difficulties of not being native ( xd like figuring out how to open an account at a Japanese bank ) would be quite uncomfortable at first, but I'm sure I'd be able to adjust after awhile. I definitely wouldn't want to live in the popular cities though eek ;; because I'd find that to be an equivalent of hell -- living alone in a cramped overpriced apartment with no private bath or toilet.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:03 pm
ashlyn62442 LIVE IN JAPAN??? YES YES YES YES!!!! whee whee whee whee TOTALLY!!!!!! not in Tokyo proper, but rather in Oomiya, or Urawa...
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:05 pm
I would love to live in Japan for a while after I finish learning the language.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:20 am
I plan on living in japan when i'm older , the only thing that worries me is what might be in my cheese burger o-0
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:04 am
Omg! I'd think I'd be heaven! Although, the prices on property is very expensive. I'd have to start out with a one bedroom apartment with no bath and eventually work my way up. Until I could purchase a very extravagant temple with a rock garden and cherry blossom trees. Even then, you still have the property tax on that monster. Would probably make my blood pressure shoot to the roof. And I think you have to pay inheritance taxes. Not sure. I think that might apply to you if the shrine has in your family for at least 10 years. Not really sure. Well, that's my dream anyways. I'm gunna live in Japan, one way or another.
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:22 pm
other country/places.....could have the same thing....they hide things
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:35 pm
Hikari.S Honestly, I dont really know if would like living in Japan. But I know I would really love the opportunity to find out xd My husband lived there for a year as an exchange student. He loved it. He was waaay up north in Akita and athough he said he was kind of lonely (he's pretty introverted even here though) he said it was realyl fantastic and he would have gone back...but I "caught" him before he could. Yay for me! =P Anyway, I'm sure that if we were to live there, there would be many things I didn't expect or were weird or creepy... But here's how I see it. Every country has problems, and each one has a different set. I'm pretty disillusioned right now with the current set of problems in this country. I dont know if they're better or worse than Japan or any other comparable country*, but I do know they're different. And I'm ready for a change. It's like when you've sat too long on one spot and your butt really hurts there, so you shift your weight around to get more comfortable. The chair/bench etc. itself hasn't suddenly become more comfortable, you're just giving the sore spot a rest and finding a different spot to use for a while. ((*as an aside, I have had loads of people spit back at me that if I dont like America, I should go live in Iraq or Saudi Arabia or Ethiopia or some other place like that and see how I like it. That is a stupid ignorant thing to say. I will never think that America is THE worst country, even by a long shot... In fact, considering every country in the world, I dont even think it is anywhere near the middle... But just because it is not the crappiest place on Earth or even the half-crpapiest place on Earth, doesn't mean I dont have the right to be annoyed with it and want a change. I keep my comparisons to first world, developed countries because they are, at a base level, the same in terms of living conditions...apples to apples.)) that is exactly what is describing me right now... for now i have lived in California all my life except for some spots during weddings and such i go to. the only place out of state is reno(not sure which half) and las vegas...... i want a change, i don't want to stay in California anymore because i have been in california for my whole life(all 16 and soon to be 17 years of it) and the second i thought about other countries to move to...well that make me wonder once i am able to get a well earned job and go through college i might decide to move to a different country(Japan is #1 on my list right now) all places have there ups and downs.... you pretty much see that almost everyday.... america has there own horrifying tales to tell(California... and their 4 major gangs.......*shivers*)wearing red and anything blue can be scary once you think about it. and right now i see the patriot act as the government going too far. as for where i want to live in Japan well... it isn't really decided yet but i have been thinking of Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Okinawa
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:26 pm
lol I basically agree with the others about finding strange things in every country but I would still honestly love to live in Japan, that place is so beautiful heart
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:32 pm
Probably has been said already, but I remember someone on page one saying how Japanese people would hear about NYC or LA and be horrified.
I think this is because there are entires sections of city and times of day for those things which people find strange to go on in Japan and Europe, but in the United States it's supposedly ALWAYS inappropriate, so you hear about it happening all the time everywhere in big cities, so they develop that reputation. =/
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:51 pm
metro_spike Probably has been said already, but I remember someone on page one saying how Japanese people would hear about NYC or LA and be horrified. I think this is because there are entires sections of city and times of day for those things which people find strange to go on in Japan and Europe, but in the United States it's supposedly ALWAYS inappropriate, so you hear about it happening all the time everywhere in big cities, so they develop that reputation. =/ good insight 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:58 pm
I wouldn't like to live in Japan, although instead of living there, I would like to go there for a little while, and come back home, instead of staying there. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:57 am
I know Japan isnt as innocent as people think...but id still love very much to live there. Even with all those natural disasters and everything id still love to visit *dreams of living there* but it would be hard for a westerner with the language, customs and so on but im sure if you put your mind to it, you could live there~ and if the worse comes, theres always your home contry to go back to~~
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:12 am
actually, there really is a rather large cross-section of the economy that's pure Gaijin. so living there wouldn't be a very big change... if you happen to find it...
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:58 am
Doumanagi Dazaemon Lately I've been doing some thinking... about what it would ACTUALLY be like to live in Japan (without taking into account of being an outsider). A while ago I was looking for anime stuff and I came across something called "hentai". MANY OF YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW WHAT THIS IS! Some clips I saw was really, how should I say, ODD. Seeing those particular cartoons got me wondering about what Japan is really like as far as what I'm not being told. Me, personally, I am naturally suspicious of almost everything which always leaves me thinking things like "There is something they are not telling me!" I always believe everything has something to hide, and Japan is no exception. So I started doing some in-depth searches on Japan and found this one webpage where it told about the "night-life" of Japan, where darkest and wierdest happenings took place. The page skimmed across the surface of many different thing about Japan, but mainly hit the fetishes of Japan. Things I found out were the oddest of things I ever saw in my life. And they even had names for all these fetishes. I won't name anything off for the sake of those that don't there vision of Japan shaken up, but what I found stirred my vision of Japan for LIFE! Point is Japan is not as innocent as many may think. I knew Japan had some urks and perks but my mindset has been blown to a whole 'nother level. Only one webpage? No offence, but all my teachers, from grade school to high school and up, always told me never to depend entirely on one source for information. Before you start drawing conclusions as to what life in Japan is like, you should do far more than find one webpage. Several webpages would be better, and several actual books would be even better than that, especially if they were actually written by people who lived in Japan. Trusting one webpage about night-life in Japan is like finding one news article saying that everyone in NYC is a murderer. Also, I have found not one, but several sources that say a fair amount of information on the Internet is false, and that if research is to be done with the Internet, then the research should be done carefully, on webpages that are renounded for being trustworthy and accurate. Some of those sources in question even had percentages of how much information on the Internet was accurate, and the percentage rates, though all different, were shockingly low, ranging from 41.5% to 36% accurate information. I'm not saying that the information you found is false, but you really should take into account that it might have been exaggerated to make it seem worse, if it's true at all. Before you jump to conclusions, you really should gather more information on the subject from reliable sources. Besides, think of NYC, LA, and other places like Detroit, Michigan and Boston, Massachusettes. Every country's got to have at least one city that makes the rest look like Paradise.
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