You’re a fictional character, you don’t get to complain.
Frig off Barb-san
Go eat some more cheeseburgers you greasy mustard tiger.
Can you explain?
Oh, I took you out of Tokyo to live in the strangest bathroom in Bucharest
10 times bigger than a flat in tokyo
No shade on folks who live in trailers. Dat poverty trap 😭
I mean, growing up in a trailer at one point, it was bigger than your average NY apartment. Certainly more land. We goats and a whole wooded area.
We goats
Must be difficult to type with hooves
Probably used bleat to text.
Honestly, that’s a pretty nice single wide.
Kreigers retirement home.
My cherry blossoms are wilting
We will talk about it in the van!
Exit: Van Left
5x the space of the average Japanese household and 1/10th the price
average Japanese household
Only average because of the heavy population density in the top 5 cities. Most places (by area) in Japan are cheap and spacious. You can have a 2 bed for less than a grand in mid-sized towns.
Aren’t those houses usually old and made of very cheap stuff like thin wood and sum? Idk if i’d like to live in a house that isn’t made of bricks…
I don’t know japan very well so i may be wrong tho
No. You get the shed. Put these glasses on.
Could be remixed with all kinds of fandoms. “Come train with me and Vegeta!”
Christ that’s dark, I love it
Reminds me of commiting to the simulation in superhot VR. I legit had to pull of the headset and make sure it was just a game first.
My back got so prickly in that scene. Every survival instinct was telling me to hold up let’s just think about this for a minute.
Damn I’m not stable enough to just get jumpscared by an image like that out of nowhere
Oh, my b. Thought it was just funny.
Took me a while to see the rope.
Something’s fucky.
Does Japan not have any crappy areas?
We do, but most of them have something within cycling distance that isn’t on an 70+ kph road with maniacs (and the closer to civilization, they have public transit).
What’s something that most people would be surprised to learn about Japan?
That’s actually rather difficult to give one answer to, even if narrowed to one country/culture as the target audience.
For North America: central heat/air is not a thing here outside of commercial applications. A handful of private individuals do it, but it ends up costing a ton both directly (the unit/maintenance) and indirectly (more materials, ductwork, insulation, etc. that are less common and more expensive here). We just had building laws revised this year to require slightly higher building codes for energy efficiency and insulation, but it’s still well below the standard of other places. It’s somewhat a cost issue (Japanese houses depreciate to nothing after 20 years in most cases and land value only goes up in a handful of areas, so there’s additional pressure not to care a ton), and also a reaction to “sick home syndrome” that came from bad plastics/materials offgassing things like formaldehyde in the '80s in more tightly-closed homes. Here, homes that breathe well are still considered better.
Well there’s Johnson Town in Saitama.
Why is there a sign saying “blue corn” in English there? And why is it called “Johnson Town”?
https://www.japan-experience.com/all-about-japan/saitama/attractions-excursions/johnson-town
It was an old US airbase town
Looks like an American suburb but without yard space.
So like a normal suburb from before 1920…
That doesn’t look bad.
It’s old American military officer housing, rented out as low income housing for several decades, then after it accidentally lasted long enough to appeal to locals, it was refurbed into a kitschy/artsy commercial area to indulge in Americana through a Japanese lens.
It looks like America, so ehhhh
Not a single mcmansion in sight! Not even enough yard to have a ride on mower??? Horrors!
It’s mostly crappy areas. Outside the urban centers, they refuse to invest in infrastructure. So everyone flees to the city center, which produces slums, and then everything except the high income areas kinda suck.
We have a lot of good infrastructure in my village and I’m pretty rural (depending upon how big ‘urban center’ is in your definition, I’m between 20 and 45 minutes away by train).
A lot of the countryside that is depopulating is quite ugly, but there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem to be sure. I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises. My area has campaigns that use our tax money to pay people to move here as well as subsidizing preschool and kindergarten.
