Hey!
I might be living alone in Shiga for a year for a job that’s paying 150k yen a month. I am wondering if that’ll be enough. Plus I’d love to bike around the places there so would it be easy to find a good quality road bike?
Edit: details about the job: it is 175 k after accounting tax, insurance and rent! I really can’t disclose a lot of things because a lot of the elements are still in consideration. Hopefully you guys can understand!
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Shiga is nationally famous for its course around Lake Biwa. However, 150K is too cheap!
Hey just my opinion depending on what kind of job you are going to do but, 150k seems like massive underball
Can you give some details about the job? Is it part time? Number of hours per week? Schedule? Industry?
150k is barely livable.
out of that 150k you have to pay insurance, tax, rent, bills, food… If you live very frugal and rent cheap in very old apartment you might save 10k~20k…
Shiga is nice from what I’ve seen and can be lovely, and there’s a road lined with cherry trees on the west side of Biwako that’s I think part of the bike route, but 15万円… that’s so little to live on.
It’s not enough, period.
Shiga was the cheapest place that I lived but thats no where near enough
North Shiga and South Shiga are very different.
If you are living in Otsu/Kusatsu you can regard yourself as almost living in Kyoto.
Anywhere else is considered the countryside basically and North Shiga gets a LOT of snow in winter.
We’re a family of 3(2 adults 1 infant) living in shiga.
We approximately spend:
Groceries and eating out 120k
Utilities 25k
Rent (3Ldk) 110k
Others 100k (eg hoikuen, baby needs)
We know that we can reduce costs (a lot) by being more conscious about our spending habits, but we’ve chosen comfort/convenience over an increase in savings. E.g. because of a lot of stress at work, we tend to eat at restaurants more to cope and avoid cleanup
Anything under 20k is cheap and not worth it unless there is some kind of benefit.
I would only accept that amount if I was getting free rent with a meal or two a day at a hostel working for a ski resort/hostel/surf camp. A backpacking working holiday job, basically.