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Yeah, affordable if you are on American digital nomad visa wages.

• socalgal2 1y ago
  You have apparently no experience in Tokyo. plenty of cheap places. First one I clicked, $600 a month https://suumo.jp/chintai/jnc_000099304610/?bc=100450374320 https://suumo.jp/chintai/jnc_000099304610/?bc=100450374320 I can find cheaper
  • dang 1y ago
    > You have apparently no experience Please don't cross into personal attack. Your comment would be just fine without that bit. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • staringback 1y ago
    Ah yes, a micro-apartment the same size as the average American kitchen [1], how affordable! For comparison, Seattle WA has a minimum wage around 2.5x higher than Tokyo. Here is a larger apartment [2] that is only 1.33x more expensive than your Tokyo broom closet. Go ahead and find something more akin to the American sized apartments (500sq+ for 1 bd) and you'll see that the prices are almost the same, with much lower wages across the board. [1]: https://kb.nkba.org/2016/11/new-nkba-research-defines-average-kitchen-sizes-across-u-s/ https://kb.nkba.org/2016/11/new-nkba-research-defines-averag... [2]: https://www.apartments.com/amherst-micro-studios-seattle-wa/7tlgnlw/#951cbt6-1-floorPlan https://www.apartments.com/amherst-micro-studios-seattle-wa/...
    • decimalenough 1y ago
      The key difference is that microapartments are actually an option in Tokyo, whereas they are against code in virtually the entire US.
      • cyberax 1y ago
        Well, duh. As a result, the US also doesn't have such a collapsing population as Japan.