I’d have to be near retirement age while still nimble enough to renovate it and hope my pension and savings would be enough to cover the costs.
Even then, it would be difficult to navigate renovations in that environment where you don’t speak the language, have no idea how their houses are supposed to be built, waste disposal and the myriad of other issues that will surely arise.
Getting a job is going to be a bitch - thus the retirement age requirement.
Getting citizenship is going to be an even bigger a bitch.
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Let us know if you end up doing something like this, I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be interested in how it turns out.
Because getting permission to live there is arguibly harder than becoming rich.
I followed PewDiePie and even for him it took massive effort and many years.
Because you have to pay taxes including the very incredibly expensive purchase tax and annual property tax. And you lack a visa.
The Japanese government and culture hates foreigner. Unless you or your parents have Japanese citizenship, you’re going to have a hard time.
My experience as a tourist with Japanese friends…
Foreigners (like me) have a chip on our shoulders. That whole attitude of “Well guess they don’t want my money” isn’t really big there. Outside of Tokyo, foreigners get kicked out of places all the time. Often it’s done politely to avoid embarrassment.
And a foreigner swinging around cash going, “Why can’t I buy this” will quickly get a polite “It is not our way as Japanese”, which really means “fuck off”.
Yeah, it’s probably the sense of entitlement. Be respectful and you won’t have issues.
I understand the Japanese don’t like old houses. Homes are regularly torn down and rebuilt. Do some research, but it might not cost as much as in the West to rebuild.
It depends. There are cheap builders here of course, but you really get what you pay for. You’re going to be paying a lot if you want insulation, double-glazed windows (or better), mechanical ventilation, enveloping, etc.
Hey if this also gives me a path to residency…
It doesn’t.
FUCK
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I could feasibly make $4k pretty quickly, I want my own home, and I’ve always wanted to visit Japan… 🤔
You’d die when the next big earthquake or landslide hits that home. Or when Sadako crawls out of your TV
I can fix her.
She’s crawling out of my TV cuz she wants the D.
…Diaper, she wants to change my Diaper ?
Someone somewhere just started rifling through their shadman archive.
With house prices that good, I can’t afford not to die!
That place is either haunted or home to some nature spirits. Either way thwy’ll fuck you up.
So I can live a real-life Studio Ghibli movie!?
Sounds like having roommates
They’re garbage spirits, but I guess there are some similarities.
Sounds like a deal then
Honestly seems like a more dignified way to go out than in American Civil War 2: Brain Rot Edition
Don’t buy these old japanese houses, they’re literally made of mud and sticks and have absolutely fuck all for insulation.
Living in nature is all fun and games until you’re expected to sleep in 50 degree weather while your split unit struggles to keep your paper box of a bedroom cool.
Most of the time the closest hospital is like 2-3 hours away on a bus that only comes twice a day, so you better hope you never get in an accident cause the ambulance won’t come for hours and your only other hope is the only other person in neighborhood: your 90 year old neighbor who you’re not sure is even still alive.
Source: lived in one for multiple years.
Edit: also when I say old I mean as soon as 1995 Before they majorly overhauled the earthquake and insulation codes nationally
for $3k i’d buy it just for the land it sits on. who cares about the house
Right? That’d be a solid investment for someone with enough money to replace/remodel the house
Land in Japan only appreciates in large cities. If you buy it now at 3k it’ll be worth 2k in 30 years.
Nah in 30 years it’ll have a real fuckin nice house on it that’ll bring up the value
If you built a house in Japan now for the cost of 100k the house would be worth 50k in 30 years.
Real estate in Japan appreciates like cars, unless you have an especially rare piece of land, it depreciates over time. It’s a bad investment unless you’re actively getting use out of it.
Part of why there’s so much cheap and abandoned land in Japan, there’s no real estate investment structure outside of land near train stations.
there’s no real estate investment structure outside of land near train stations.
So it’s the way it should be, then.
No real “I’m gonna buy cheap land in fuck-off nowhere and build a fucking theme park or whatever and run ads to make sure some idiots make the long trek out to this miserable tivoli of scams and no options. But then other people get the opportunity to settle close to me and compete by selling almost reasonably priced sustenance, and such. And some years down the line we’ve got a shitty pointless desert town going, one with a defunct theme park about raccoons or some shit.”
Sounds perfect honestly.
Sounds like Totoro. Here’s you 3k I’m in.
Wattle and daube is actually pretty insulated for what it is. That said Japanese homes are cold because they’re breezey choosing high air turnover over high insulation value in an attempt to circumvent some of the summer humidity.
so you’d* better hope
I can imagine this would make your taxes wacky
requires repairs
Black mold fucking everywhere.
Might be a fun projectStarting with “after the burning”
No insurer will touch it without being brought up to earthquake code, either, most likely.
