Okay main one – I saw a lot of comments on some older posts here suggesting that if you're a social person (I think I am), the worst thing you can do is live far out from downtown. But what if my workplace is out in Hachioji?
Then the question is balancing travel time to work vs travel time to downtown tokyo. I'm inclined to minimize my travel time to work as much as possible, because its 5 days a week and a constant of life. Is that a fair call?
2nd- opinions on social apartments/share houses seem to get really divisive here between 'they're grotty and gross, don't even consider it' or 'those were the best years of my life'.
I'm drawn to the social aspect and really nice common facilities in the medium-large ones, as well as putting off the financial hit of buying furniture and appliances.
If I do my due diligence to sus out their contracts, cleaning policies and view the premesis in person, will I be alright?
Ideally I'd like to go to a place that can do a 1-3 month trial period (share-place seems to support that) to experience it a bit first.
by Fuyu_dstrx
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>Then the question is balancing travel time to work vs travel time to downtown tokyo. I’m inclined to minimize my travel time to work as much as possible, because its 5 days a week and a constant of life. Is that a fair call?
This is ***absolutely*** the correct call. Extending your daily commute in favor of something you’ll only do on weekends (and possibly not even every weekend) would be a spectacularly bad idea.
Live where you work, even if it extends your weekend commute significantly.
>I’m drawn to the social aspect
Be aware that the “social aspect” of sharehouses is wildly overstated. While there are certainly *some* sharehouses/sharehouse residents who are there for “social living” the vast majority of residents are there because it’s cheap and doesn’t require deposits.
You should go into a sharehouse with the expectation that you’re just going to be living with stranger roommates, not that it will be a grand social experience where you hang out with your new friends every night.