Our “exchange daughter” (former high school exchange student, now grown-up college student) will be here in a week’s time to spend a month with us. News like this makes me want to beg her to stay. Things may be bad in the US but here in Texas there’s plenty of farmland and oil and gas; even if the crap really hits the fan, we’ll get by. Japan, on the other hand, is a chain of rocky islands with little arable land and no oil whatsoever. I feel she’s safer here with us.
Of course, she has a real, biological family back in Japan, and I suppose they (and we) will muddle through somehow. Still, I’d feel better with all my chicks under my wing.
” Safer “ ? Relative term . Japan may be in recession , but they are not BANKRUPT like the USA . They can purchase all they need to weather the coming storm from somebody .
Also , I’d feel SAFER walking down a dark sidestreet in Tokyo than most smalltown streets in the USA .