Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the Kitchen

Re:Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the ... by Aeolun on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:07PM (#18373201)

I don’t know how you got your info about Japan, but even smaller homes in Tokyo (according to Japanese standards) can run up to $500,000. If I’d get something similar to what I’d have in the Netherlands we go up to $1.5M.

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Re:Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the ... by jbay on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:41PM (#18373336)

Japan is bigger than Tokyo! Anywhere outside of Tokyo, even in beautiful livable world-class cities, the prices for Japanese homes are quite reasonable.

For example, this is in a very central and convenient part of Kyoto: https://www.realestate.co.jp/forsale/view/538465

Or this one, for half the price: https://www.realestate.co.jp/forsale/view/438354

Other cities outside of Kyoto are even less expensive.

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Re:Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the ... by Aeolun on Saturday November 03, 2018 @10:54PM (#18373852)

Indeed. You could easily find places for $50000 or even less if you wanted to.

The problem is any job I’ve ever had is in Tokyo.

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Re:Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the ... by jbay808 on Sunday November 04, 2018 @12:47AM (#18374287)

Good point. It does depend on the field though.

For software, there's probably not a lot of other options. For mechanical engineering there's a lot of interesting work all over the country.

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Re:Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the ... by Aeolun on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:17PM (#18378848)

Should have gone with my second choice of career then :P

Not much work there without fluent Japanese though, so I guess it turned out alright. I’ll just have to deal with houses costing a small fortune.

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