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For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings
- excalibur 8y agoThat'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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18548742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18548742
- admax88q 8y agoThe 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.
- isostatic 8y agoIncreasing to the point htat Japan is paying people to leave Tokyo and move elsewhere https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/01/japans-offer-residents-overcrowded-tokyo-20000-move/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/01/japans-offer-res...
- PunchTornado 8y agoThat's weird because the countryside is amazing compared to the ugliness of Tokyo (speaking as a tourist)
- isostatic 8y agoOne 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.
- lordnacho 8y agoWeirdly this article brought to mind a shop I'd walked past a few times: https://www.london-tokyo.co.uk/en/ https://www.london-tokyo.co.uk/en/