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Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:36:36 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP, post
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They bought an abandoned house in rural Japan for $6,500. Now, they're renting
it out on Airbnb for $130 a night.
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-couple-moved-to-japan-abandoned-home-akiya-renovation-guesthouse-2024-11
That's 130 times 220, about 28,500 per year, assuming a 60 percent occupancy
rate
They spent about 30,000 on it
The investment has a 100% rate of return
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:38:07 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #12800012 Japan is a dying country. Sad.
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:44:03 -0800
marlon from
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Reply #17002120 homeless population in Japan is
huge, but they stay hidden out of shame.
do they just stay in urban areas? how else do they have abandoned houses in
rural areas?
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:10:10 -0800
zerosugar
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Reply #14643907 I would really like to spend like
a month or two in Japan seeing everything. I believe one or two months would be
good for seeing a good number of things. For some reason, Hokkaido really
inspires me. I love snow. Just have never been able to find somebody who has the
time to go and don't see myself solo traveling there. Maybe soon!
I would also like to experience the warm weather in Okinawa.
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:17:30 -0800
zerosugar
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Reply #19441585 On a funny side note, I did know
this hilarious old Japanese professor (not my professor), but a professor who
once brought me to a club when I was still 19 and underage. He was old, they
didn't bother ID'ing me when they saw me out with him. It was fun. Not a date as
the dude had a wife in Colorado and I was just a kid basically. He was just
looking to get out. All the same, he kept in contact with me via email over the
years. He was so weird. Him and his wife lived separate lives and she was a
professor too. Then, he went back to Japan to care for his aging mom. He invited
me a few times to Japan, but I declined as this dude was looking for a hookup.
Hilariously, we ended up fighting about a year ago via email about politics. He
is a crazy leftist which is funny because most Japanese are not. They are
probably the most conservative East Asian country. At least all the ones I have
met have been pretty right wing. Then again, many Koreans are pretty hard right
too.
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:11:08 -0800
marlon from
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Reply #16154763 robbing the cradle eh?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:53:35 -0800
zerosugar
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Reply #18911931 yeah looking back it’s so
creepy this married guy who was like well into his 40s at the time asked a
teenager to a nightclub. i forgot how we even initially met…or actually it was
at this convention. he was a foreigner though. he didn’t try to kiss me or
anything, but later via email wrote some sick stuff.
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 08:57:45 -0800
marlon from
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Reply #12276490 seems that happens a lot
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:55:26 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #16547239 19 is adult
Japanese relationships are strange. It is not uncommon for the man to be gone
working in some other country or city. We lived next door to a Japanese teacher
and swore he beat his wife. But he beat her quietly. Like, the house would go
silent when the beatings started. Just a theory. They had an insane little boy
who hit some other boy attending a birthday party on the head with a rock.
Strangely a few months later the Japanese family ended up trying to rent the
apartment of where the boy who was hit in the head with a rock lived. Strange
times.
@11161266 Andy 😮
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