It gets harder and harder to return to the U.S. after every trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

Why you cannot have a small apartment in Florida Villages and not be shot like in Baltimore or Chicago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

Why you cannot have a small apartment in Florida Villages and not be shot like in Baltimore or Chicago?

?

MAGA brain ^ right there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

As a gaijin?

[Anonymous]

The EU's FDA is a lot more strict than our FDA. They don't allow cloned meat, and pesticides are much more strictly enforced. They don't support corporate greed as much as we do, at the expense of the consumer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

Why you cannot have a small apartment in Florida Villages and not be shot like in Baltimore or Chicago?

Sandy Hook was far from being Baltimore. Virginia Tech is Baltimore? First Baptist Church? You cannot escape America’s sick, perverted gun violence and gun culture wherever you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe US food sucks v rest of world is in denial. That is all.

The biggest factor among many is that culturally food matters in other countries more than in US. As simple as this fact - in Asia and Europe and Islands and LAtAm, people take meals seriously. Here in the US, most people do not. Lunch is school for example is grossness for our kids. In other countries adults would be eating better having school food than adult food in the US!!!

My kid in US knows chicken tenders, pizza and spaghetti. Take any other country and their kid will eat a whole lot more variety and better. This is 100% true.

Yup, it's insane the garbage we feed our kids. Compare our kids' foods to South Korea or Japan where everything is freshly made:

Most American kids would not eat that food, even if provided/funded. This is a cultural issue, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe US food sucks v rest of world is in denial. That is all.

The biggest factor among many is that culturally food matters in other countries more than in US. As simple as this fact - in Asia and Europe and Islands and LAtAm, people take meals seriously. Here in the US, most people do not. Lunch is school for example is grossness for our kids. In other countries adults would be eating better having school food than adult food in the US!!!

My kid in US knows chicken tenders, pizza and spaghetti. Take any other country and their kid will eat a whole lot more variety and better. This is 100% true.

Yup, it's insane the garbage we feed our kids. Compare our kids' foods to South Korea or Japan where everything is freshly made:

Most American kids would not eat that food, even if provided/funded. This is a cultural issue, unfortunately.

They wouldn't, and that is because most people don't raise kids to have a taste for healthy food. And I find that the people who complain the most bitterly about American diets tend to be overweight, which suggests that they, themselves aren't living up to their own standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe US food sucks v rest of world is in denial. That is all.

The biggest factor among many is that culturally food matters in other countries more than in US. As simple as this fact - in Asia and Europe and Islands and LAtAm, people take meals seriously. Here in the US, most people do not. Lunch is school for example is grossness for our kids. In other countries adults would be eating better having school food than adult food in the US!!!

My kid in US knows chicken tenders, pizza and spaghetti. Take any other country and their kid will eat a whole lot more variety and better. This is 100% true.

Yup, it's insane the garbage we feed our kids. Compare our kids' foods to South Korea or Japan where everything is freshly made:

Most American kids would not eat that food, even if provided/funded. This is a cultural issue, unfortunately.

They wouldn't, and that is because most people don't raise kids to have a taste for healthy food. And I find that the people who complain the most bitterly about American diets tend to be overweight, which suggests that they, themselves aren't living up to their own standards.

Agree on both counts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

As a gaijin?

Yes

This isn’t Japan of 1980

Do you know how many Nepali and south East Asian immigrants are pouring into Japan presently?

A white person in Japan - as long as you don’t care about socializing with locals — will have no issues.

Just work for an international org/firm or have your own business/work remote

Japan is rapidly opening up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

As a gaijin?

Yes

This isn’t Japan of 1980

Do you know how many Nepali and south East Asian immigrants are pouring into Japan presently?

A white person in Japan - as long as you don’t care about socializing with locals — will have no issues.

Just work for an international org/firm or have your own business/work remote

Japan is rapidly opening up.

What a lonely existence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.

As a gaijin?

Yes

This isn’t Japan of 1980

Do you know how many Nepali and south East Asian immigrants are pouring into Japan presently?

A white person in Japan - as long as you don’t care about socializing with locals — will have no issues.

Just work for an international org/firm or have your own business/work remote

Japan is rapidly opening up.

What a lonely existence.

There are tons of expats in Tokyo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe US food sucks v rest of world is in denial. That is all.

The biggest factor among many is that culturally food matters in other countries more than in US. As simple as this fact - in Asia and Europe and Islands and LAtAm, people take meals seriously. Here in the US, most people do not. Lunch is school for example is grossness for our kids. In other countries adults would be eating better having school food than adult food in the US!!!

My kid in US knows chicken tenders, pizza and spaghetti. Take any other country and their kid will eat a whole lot more variety and better. This is 100% true.

Yup, it's insane the garbage we feed our kids. Compare our kids' foods to South Korea or Japan where everything is freshly made:

Most American kids would not eat that food, even if provided/funded. This is a cultural issue, unfortunately.

That's what happens when you addict children to toxic American food loaded with fat, salt, sugar and carbs sick about birth. Gee, you mean kids will find healthy good food 'gross' when you're been stuffing their fat faces with burgers, fries and frozen pizzas since the age of 2?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe US food sucks v rest of world is in denial. That is all.

The biggest factor among many is that culturally food matters in other countries more than in US. As simple as this fact - in Asia and Europe and Islands and LAtAm, people take meals seriously. Here in the US, most people do not. Lunch is school for example is grossness for our kids. In other countries adults would be eating better having school food than adult food in the US!!!

My kid in US knows chicken tenders, pizza and spaghetti. Take any other country and their kid will eat a whole lot more variety and better. This is 100% true.

Yup, it's insane the garbage we feed our kids. Compare our kids' foods to South Korea or Japan where everything is freshly made:

Most American kids would not eat that food, even if provided/funded. This is a cultural issue, unfortunately.

Speak for yourself. My kid happily eats all that stuff. You on the other hand have acclimated your kid to eating junk.

[Anonymous]

All the US has is junk. Seriously. Unless you have enough money to shop healthy foods which a lot of people don't. Even then there is something to be said for chips with enough salt so it tastes good. Do my prob is not that we have junk food but that the healthy stuff is so expensive. There's no way you can shop for meat at the butcher without some money and get farmers market products either. These are small businesses and they need to price products to make a living.

The real issue is our relationship to food. We don't respect good food and the ritual of having a long and healthy meal. Other countries are way more interested in food that's real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The EU's FDA is a lot more strict than our FDA. They don't allow cloned meat, and pesticides are much more strictly enforced. They don't support corporate greed as much as we do, at the expense of the consumer.

They're loosening restrictions on enforcement requirements with food prices. You can't pinch your nose in these times.