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He asked that in the "aren’t you all living in the streets of Japan with so few money?" in a humble-bragging tone that is quite common here when speaking of wag
by tasogare 6y ago
He asked that in the "aren’t you all living in the streets of Japan with so few money?" in a humble-bragging tone that is quite common here when speaking of wages in an international context. And my reply is clear: yes it’s more than doable if living alone. I won’t speak for people who have families, it may be harder, but none of my foreign friends working here ever complained about their salaries.
- benrbray 6y agofwiw I didn't interpret it that way
- pmiller2 6y agoIncorrect. He, who is me, asked in the sense of "I have no idea how the hell much $70k equivalent buys in Japan."
- literallycancer 6y agoNah. He just asked how far it goes because it's not obvious how much you'd have to spend if you aren't willing to live in a shoebox. Seeing as most of the housing stock in big Japanese cities are the shoebox size apartments. Another thing which a foreigner would have a hard time finding out is how much you have to spend on decent domestic staff or private tutors. They could look up English speaking companies serving the Anglo expat market, but the local middle class is likely able to get those services for dramatically different prices.