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Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by ekianjo on Sunday May 07, 2017 @11:00AM (#14285760)
> median price for a home in Tokyo and its surrounding three prefectures is 28 million yen

For this price you get a shack in the far suburbs of Tokyo. Anything remotely close to the center goes to 100 million yen. And prices are going up before of the Olympic Bubble, too. It's completely crazy.

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Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by hudibras on Sunday May 07, 2017 @11:08AM (#14285796)
Of course keeping in mind that a "far suburb of Tokyo" will still have a population of 400,000 or so, roughly comparable to the size of Miami or Oakland. Yokohama is definitely not Tokyo, but its population is 3.7 million, larger than Chicago and just a bit smaller than Los Angeles.
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Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by ekianjo on Sunday May 07, 2017 @06:51PM (#14288155)
Agree with your point, but a bed town far away from the Tokyo center is still a bed town. Which not a very pleasant place to live in (99% residential, almost no stores, no restaurants around).
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Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by hudibras on Sunday May 07, 2017 @07:52PM (#14288351)
Well, everybody's experience is different, I guess. But 99% residential and no stores or restaurants is bit hard to believe.
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Re:Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014) by ekianjo on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:54PM (#14313734)
What I mean is, nothing nearby enough. The zoning is clearly made to favor residential spaces in extremely high proportions, unlike an ordinary city center.
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