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re: Bugging out to a different country - permanently
Posted on 6/10/23 at 9:19 pm to LemmyLives
Posted on 6/10/23 at 9:19 pm to LemmyLives
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I'm assuming you've been stationed there to even consider it. But, Japan (at least Tokyo) has issues which can only be ameliorated with corporate funding of your schools, apartments, etc.
I'd completely move there, but I don't know if most Gaijin could. I lived there as a kid, and consideration of others (not talking on your f@#*@ phone on a bus from Narita, etc) is something a lot of westerners can't get, and they don't understand how important it is. If it fits with your personality (drink lots, show lots of respect, follow rules) it can be great. Has anyone that hasn't been to Japan seen a guy pass out sleeping on his laptop in a train station, and he wakes up with the same laptop still in his possession in the morning? Yeah, that's the busiest train station in Japan (Shinagawa.)
How about Korea, like Jeju, Seoul, Daejeon, etc.? They're looser socially, and as long as you don't associate with the military crew in Seoul, people will seemingly treat you normally. I had a dude "corner" me outside of Daejeon station and just want to talk to me for half an hour because he wanted to practice his English. And there was a three/four story Spiderman "model" stuck on the side of a hotel for weeks.
Never stationed there but I've spent a lot of time in Tokyo (months, over time) and I speak the language. The culture suits me fine, and I have no intention of being a salaryman.
Is Shinagawa busier than Shinjuku, btw?
I used to get cornered that way in China. As for S. Korea, I don't speak any, but I had another American say he took the boat to S. Korea and a dude was basically waiting there trying to fight Westerners lol...
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