I follow an American car drifter on youtube who moved to Japan in '22 and I've been shocked at how affordable his life is. He has kids and a wife and they'll go

I follow an American car drifter on youtube who moved to Japan in '22 and I've been shocked at how affordable his life is. He has kids and a wife and they'll go out to dinner and I think his usual bill is in the 20-30s for everyone. He said it's super hard to rent a house as a foreigner there, he lucked out and found a landlord that knew him from youtube and leased an absolutely beautiful townhouse for $1800 that would be well into the $5ks in my city. Glass garage doors, just decked out. Fruit though, he loves to show how expensive the fruit is and it's shockingly expensive. Not exact here but we're talking like $10-20 for a single melon. I'm not sure what city he's in, he seems to be IN a city and is in Tokyo a lot but I can't remember if he's IN tokyo. So maybe it's not Tokyo expensive but I'd always assumed Japan was incredibly expensive to live in, in general. If anyones interested he has a bunch of videos where he talks about the move, house tour, etc. He's one of my favorite youtubers and I'm not even that into the drift stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQkOPQXPLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQkOPQXPLM