Yes I’ve heard that also.
The flood gates are well and truly open and the middle class are stuck in a pressure cooker…well I’ve heard that’s the saying 🙄
Singapore?
Dubai?
Portugal?
I would love a house on a mountain in Japan but they don’t want us there 😂
Anywhere where the long arm of the law can’t get to us.
I’m partial to cold and snowy though
Yeah I am very tired of the Brisbane heat and mould.
All countries have their issues. Japan is a great place to visit, but living is not for everyone. I've been here over 10 years (Aussie). Taxes are high and the pension system is breaking. It's almost impossible for single women to live alone due to low wages. It's freezing in winter and boiling in summer. Taxes are higher than Aus and there's also inheritance/gift tax. That said, I love Japan and my life here has been relatively easy. I'll be moving back to Aus soon though. People say Australia is going to shit blah blah blah. I prefer to look at it as it's ripe for change, or will be shortly. You know what they say, buy at the bottom sell at the top, the night is darkest before the dawn, etc. 👍
Well thanks for ruining my dream 😉😂…I know the grass is not always greener. I think Japan is ripe for change and a great place to be if we are picking the bottom. However you know a lot more than me from living there!
I’m so negative here at the moment and can’t shake it. Things can always get worse and the property bubble is insane…and bubbles do burst. Tread with care (and I know you were not specifically talking about property).
Maybe I’m just craving change…and gotten old 😊
I came to Japan for a change, but after a while I realized it was just my mindset. Maybe you just need an extended holiday, and Japan is a great place for that. But its trajectory isn't exactly pretty. Population is decreasing, putting a large burden on young workers to support the elderly. Prices and inflation are increasing due to the weak yen, which I don't think will ever recover. I don't think they will act quickly enough to use bitcoin to turn things around, and that's pretty much the only thing that I can imagine working. Is your negativity primarily based on actual living conditions and society, or the news and narratives you consume?
I have a 4.5 week holiday there soon. 3rd time to visit. SO EXCITED.
Negativity is based on living conditions and society...but I am the first one to admit I talk too much finance and economy with investing people and always at risk of believing our own bullshit.
More importantly...this trip we are doing Osaka, Shima, Takayama. Done the main tourist things already and have been to Kanazawa and around Hakuba. What would be your recommendation on where else to go? I love food and mountains.
Awesome! Spending too much time talking about or doing one thing, particularly on social media, is a recipe for disaster. It is for me anyway lol. I take some time to walk an hr each day, get outside and exercise. Touch some grass, as they say. You can get delicious food pretty much anywhere in Japan, it's amazing. Tourism is afterall one of their main industries. Personally I don't really have any recommendations for places, each has it own stuff. Have you been to Toyama/Tateyama? Smallish city with an amazing mountain range. If you get sick of Japanese food, my fav place is Barbacoa brazilian grill. All you can eat, AMAZING. You can find them in larger cities.
Yes good call on Toteyama...I looked at going there last time! Thank you.
amen man.
I did ten years and was ready to leave.
I love them, but ready to go.
you have to be a very specific kind of person to be an expat in Japan.
Singapore has become outrageously expensive even to visit!😡
I avoid it, unless I have business there.💯
Bureaucratic tyranny and looting are also trending up!👎
Portugal or anywhere in ESSR (aka #EU), the #socialist propensity and trend to loot anyone who has something to pilfer is as bad or worse than Oz and NZ!
Not recommended, except maybe parts of Adriatic coast and former Yugoslavia.
Montenegro and Croatia are great this time of year!💯
Love it thank you. Yeah went to Singapore after Xmas and still financially recovering
Too damn humid. I lived in Dubai for a long time.
It’s a big humidity filled scam.
Singapore full of humidity might be better in terms of being less scammy
Same! I worked on those Race Day Hotels in Abu Dhabi. Definitely was not my vibe and I am not yearning to go back even for a holiday.
Disney coming to AUH did you hear?
I worked on the pm teams of some of the biggest and world famous developments in that country. Helped shape its insane money grab
You would have seen all sorts of interesting things!!!
Yes I did hear about Disney. I was surprised and I don’t think I would want to go to that one.
Abu Dhabi better than the rest of the other Emirates and others are better than Dubai imo. But then again I worked and lived there for a decade
