For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings

Posted by akyuu on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:27PM
from the blogs.imf.org dept.

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by lordnacho on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:53AM (#18654218)

Weirdly this article brought to mind a shop I'd walked past a few times:

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by neka on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:06AM (#18655734)

Finchley?

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by lordnacho on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:00AM (#18656165)

Marylebone

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by excalibur on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:50PM (#18651068)

That's a pretty bold claim in light of the disconnect between Japan's housing market and those in the west, highlighted in a recent thread:

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by admax88q on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:59PM (#18651128)

The article is about Tokyo specifically not Japan as a whole.

Japan's population is decreasing but Tokyo specifically is as people migrate to the big cities increasing.

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by isostatic on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:08PM (#18652275)

Increasing to the point htat Japan is paying people to leave Tokyo and move elsewhere

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by PunchTornado on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:57AM (#18654237)

That's weird because the countryside is amazing compared to the ugliness of Tokyo (speaking as a tourist)

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Re:For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings by isostatic on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:14AM (#18656295)

One global trend is urbanisation. Partly this is because of jobs, but it's also because of socialisation

I may think that living in a city is horrible, but it seems that even if you take away work people still choose to live in high density areas.

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