Posted on 11/12/2021 6:46:28 AM PST by cymbeline
Tokyo is decentralized. Tokyo prioritizes public trasportation over cars, one reason being the high cost of fuel. Housing in Tokyo is not that expensive.
>Housing in Tokyo is not that expensive.
As compared to what? Commercial property in Manhattan?
Oh Tokyo
They got some sake and sashimi and some clean sheets
Oh Kimono, Kimono
Tokyo’s the town that I love the best,
East may be East, and West may be West,
Forget about between, it’ll drive you insane,
And teach you things you never knew before.
There’s no diversity.
I thought the same thing as well. Everyone I have ever known who lived in Tokyo commented on how expensive it was.
And, hence, very little crime. It is no accident.
Yup.
Tokyo apartments are sometimes described as “Rabbit Hutches”. That is hard to compare with Western apartment which will be much larger. I was in a new apartment in Seoul, Korea, once. It was standard for at least one occupant to roll their bed on the living room floor at night, and roll it up during the day.
I lived there for 10 years.
Home owning is out of the question for the vast majority so the two most expensive costs in life are the apartment and the auto. Coming in a close third is the cost of a parking space for a car.
Have you ever been there? It is one of the places interesting to visit, but I would not live there for anything. Mass of humanity, tiny houses, noise. Crazy road layout. Total mess! A lot worse than NY!
And, due to US bombardment in WWII, there are not even any historical places there to see. Kyoto is a lot more interesting place to visit in Japan!
Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis and Birmingham are low in diversity. But they have plenty of crime.
Homogenous and high IQ. No other reasons.
A racially and culturally homogeneous city is not that hard to run well.
My daughter and family pay roughly $1500 monthly for a two bedroom 4th floor flat, nice but nothing special. It is about a 10 minute walk from Tokyo's equivalent of Times Square.
Try renting a broom closed for that in central Manhattan. Plus Tokyo is once of the nicest, safest big cities in the world. Especially compared to New York, even when Rudi Giuliani and Ed Koch were mayors.
They are eat up with diversity, all bad.
Exactly what I was thinking. They haven’t adoped toxic diversity. They value their culture, and protect, nuture, and pass it on.
In direct mirror image, our leaders crap on the european heritage and western civ, and are doing all they can to suicide it.
Tokyo is such a sprawling metropolis that the outskirts are not particularly urban, and don’t have living costs like that of, say, Shinjuku or Shibuya. It would be like measuring the cost of living in NYC by Dobbs Ferry as opposed to the Upper West Side.
Dobbs Ferry is nice
I went to high school in Yokohama and have been back to the Tokyo metropolitan area a number of times since, and there are enough sights to see there, though Kyoto is much more traditional. Having said all that, I'm the provincial type myself, if I were to move back to Japan today I would rather live in the Japanese equivalent of flyover country, like Matsue where Lafcadio Hearn lived, or Kanazawa where Takayama Ukon lived, or Miyazu near Amanohashi-date.
>It is about a 10 minute walk from Tokyo’s equivalent of Times Square.
Where? Tsukiji? I know Tokyo quite well and $1500 for a two bedroom is very good, but also very unusual.
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