Why Japan over EU countries and UK?

7 comments

1. The grass on the other side and so on. It is highly subject and depends on what you value in life and your current connections. I’ve come to the conclusion that no place is perfect and I value the small things, such as how people interact with their environment. I cant bare public transport in my home country anymore, for example. I absolutely hate it.

2. 100% would live in Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain countryside. Just need a job there. Working on it.

3. The weather is better, I fit in with the people better (I’m small and being around tall people makes me uncomfortable, living somewhere like the Netherlands would be a nightmare to me!), I can earn more money here, cost of living is lower etc.

   I’ve sometimes thought if I were rich I’d like to live in Southern Italy, but I’m not rich and still need to work for a living so Japan is better for that.

4. The fact that you have to learn a niche language like JP is an appealing thing to me. Knowing english means that you can access much of the professional world, but it also means that you are competing with everyone who knows english, which is billions. If you have to compete with only people who know Japanese, the competition pool is much smaller.

5. Europe is nice to vacation in but boring to live in. Japan is nice to vacation in and fun to live in.

6. – no emigrants problem
   – hence no security issues
   – economy is stable
   – huge country with different climate

7. I speak Japanese. I do not speak any European language (unless you count Latin, but I don’t want to live in Vatican City).

   Also I do not want to live in Europe, while I do want to live in Japan. This was a major factor in my deciding to live in Japan over a European city.