I want to live in Japan so bad

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is what civilized countries look like, Americans:




Let’s day Japan were underreporting violent gun crimes by 10x (lol, impossible). Guess what, Japan would still be >20x better in terms of gun crime. That’s how barbaric and uncivilized the U.S. is. 600% worse than even Canada. It’s not just school shootings. Just go read up on > 50 shootings in a single weekend like when July 4 rolls around in Chicago. Many more shootings and innocent bystanders hit by stray bullets simply due to handguns. US looks more like Brazil and El Salvador than they do with counterparts like Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea and the rest of the civilized world. But at least you supposedly have your freedumbz! (Meanwhile cops run over civilians with civil forfeitures). Freedumbz in the U.S. is such a hoax.

No, certain parts of the US look like Brazil and Guatemala. I live in Old Town Alexandria, and we are far more like Japan than, say, across the river.

The people and culture are what make it dangerous, not the inanimate objects.

lol, no you don’t. Alexandria is a 3rd world s hole too:

You know why they’d never do crap like this in South Korea or Japan? Because it makes so much noise and they’d be concerned about how much it impacts everyone around them. They’d be worried about the great shame it’d bring to themselves and their country. That’s what happens when you have a cohesive, conformist society that tries to better itself for all rather than trying to exist as a country of 300 million individuals with freedumbz and rights!

You realize life and people aren’t black and white right? Like without this freedom, so many technological advances simply couldn’t exist. Things that make your life easy and comfortable would exist yet. I personally think there is a happy medium, but it’s stupid to think in such b&w terms.

Grow up. You’re a precocious freshman still protesting in the quad.

“Technological advances” don’t hinge on relaxed policing of MS13 and a bunch of K-pop pseudo thugs instagramming their rice burners in our local communities.

It’s OK though. The pendulum is coming back.

[Anonymous]

Japan is wonderful place to live, for all the reasons you mentioned. Go for it, OP!

[Anonymous]

Reasons against living in Japan:

They do not like foreigners
They do not like Blacks & other Asians
You will be a minority
Regimented & inflexible bureaucracy
Incredibly hard to renew work permits
Higher unemployment
Culture & economy past peak, like the UK
Economy stagnant 30 years, only tourism
Chinese tourists everywhere, all the time
China & N Korea are your neighbors
N Korea launching nukes into Sea of Japan
Cancer causing smog from Chinese factories
Earth quakes all the time
Hot and humid all the time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way better quality of food

Infinitely better education

WAY BETTER public transport

virtually zero gun crime

Zero school shootings

Affordable healthcare for all

Murder rate is virtual nonexistent

Obesity rate is below 5% while US is 50%

People obey the law

Virtually zero fare evaders on the Shinkansen

High speed internet and cell phones everywhere.


I do not give a crap about toxic work culture. I’d take that little zit vs school shootings and America’s unaffordable healthcare snd obesity. Do Americans realize how much it sucks to live in america?

Same. I want to retire there

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everything about the US is in decline. Everything just seems so much more ghetto and run down compared to the 90s and 2000s. There is just no more national identity anymore. For example, in the DMV you now regularly encounter hawkers trying to sell flowers, to drinks, to other trinkets at intersections. You now have unlicensed mopeds and scooters all over the roads in PG, MoCo, and DC. Drive all over the beltway and you'll see all sorts of trash people dump from used mattresses to bag bags and bags of contractor waste on the side of the road. You know where you see all of these kinds of things? In second and 3rd world countries. That is what the US has become. People just stop caring about the law and take great liberties with it. You know why 2nd and 3rd world countries are the way they are? BECAUSE people in those countries have a toxic mindset of ignoring the law and have low standards for themselves. It results in things like dumping trash on the side of the road. Now the US is importing tons of this same kind of mindset by the fistful. You never see hawkers and mass quantities of mopeds and scooters driving how ever they want in civilized countries like Japan, South Korea, or Denmark. It's just death by 1000 cuts in the US. Everything is in decline and I honestly can barely tell the difference anymore between a country like Vietnam or Thailand vs the US. I still think the US has further to go down and will be more of a central American country soon in terms of development, quality of education, and crime. Just lawlessness, no semblance of identity, and trashy ingrained attitude.

It may be true that Denmark and South Korea are better places to live but Japan is also in decline. They have an older population and a low birth rate. Their economy has never really recovered from its fall in the 1990s.

But even with Japanese demographics, everyone still obeys the law. There is not a single spec of trash virtually anywhere. Graffiti? Almost non-existent. Have you been in Tokyo during rush hour? They leave the gates open for the subways to help improve human traffic flow and congestion. And guess what? EVERYONE still pays! They simply can't comprehend stealing fares because of the great harm it'd cause society and the shame it'd being to themselves. Contrast that to the US where fare evasion is a national past time and lawlessness is now acceptable. It's so disgusting what we tolerate in the USA and how far we are declining into a 2nd world country with almost no laws.

Import the third world, become the third world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Japan is a hard place to live if you are not ethnically Japanese.

My white son did his last year in college there and now works there. He loves it. Has friends, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reasons against living in Japan:

They do not like foreigners
They do not like Blacks & other Asians
You will be a minority
Regimented & inflexible bureaucracy
Incredibly hard to renew work permits
Higher unemployment
Culture & economy past peak, like the UK
Economy stagnant 30 years, only tourism
Chinese tourists everywhere, all the time
China & N Korea are your neighbors
N Korea launching nukes into Sea of Japan
Cancer causing smog from Chinese factories
Earth quakes all the time
Hot and humid all the time

All of that is better than

Being bankrupted for medical care
Shooting an entire classroom full of 8 year olds
Living under an oligarchy run by Musk
Zero guaranteed vacation days
Zero childcare support
Unaffordable housing
Mass flood of illegal immigration
Living in a country that doesn't like Blacks, Asians, and anyone who isn't a WASP.