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four-day workweek

/me franticly googling rents in Japan

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The way I’ve heard it said is “if you live in a developed country, you could probably afford to move to Japan right now. If you get a job in Japan, you’ll never afford to move back.”

Japan’s cost of living is low compared to developed nations, but their average income is also low for a developed nation.

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When you move from the US you lose like half your salary for an equivalent position (more now cause of the relative power of the dollar to the yen).

The people that live like kings are the ones that are in Japan at the behest of American companies on American salaries living at like a third of their American costs.

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This is true in Europe too. Salaries in the US are just stupid high in general. They need to be because the US has shit for social services, which must be paid out of pocket.

Case and point: childcare.

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rent is cheapish, it’s everything else that will get you. if you’re fine with crushing and all-permeating conformism, ridiculous degree of nationalism and misogyny, how you won’t be ever accepted as one of their own as foreigner and famously toxic work culture, feel free to give it a shot

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Housing in Japan is cheap. Smaller than you’re used to but still cheap.

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Housing in Japan is treated the same as a car, it depreciates as soon as you move in.

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This should be everywhere.

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