Big in Japan: The Myth About Money

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8-19-2007 @ 8:02PM

AndyM said...

The important thing to note about The Economist list is that it is comparing places that are expensive to live as an ex-pat, not as an ordinary person.
Housing in Japan is not expensive, depends where you want to live, qualitatively it is poor with only a 30-50 year life. Land is available for development but it is subject to manipulation to keep the prices high. Japan is not a small country, despite what many Japanese say, they just want to live in Tokyo or other large cities not the countryside where life can be decidedly inconvenient.

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