I met one really drunk Russian guy years ago, but the bar was so loud everyone basically had to yell so I can’t really count it

Sure. The post asked specifically about Americans and, perhaps by virtue of living in East Asia, I haven’t run into that many loud Europeans lately.

Americans are mostly super loud. You can hear them from forever away like they’re competing to be the loudest in any space. ~ someone originally from the US that had this pointed out to me.

Yeah, i think metro areas make more sense for many things. There’s the 23ku, but also the rest of (non-marintime) Tokyo pref., much of kanagawa pref., and parts of Chiba and Saitama prefs.

The daytime population of the 23ku is crazy, but not everyone lives therein.

I learned that upgrading mint broke my video editing software and I had to go back to windows to work on one of my jobs. I also had some issues with networked SNES emulation (for ALTTPR) that I could never work out.

I can survive without SNES games, but not being able to update my os without worrying about breaking things I must do for my job is a deal breaker (I have 2 jobs as well, one of which is my own farm business, so time is a luxury I don’t have).

I can’t wait for this to stop being an issue and move fully to linux

That’s just a fancy way of saying a tomato smoothie on bread/pastry

I only eat beef on special occasions a handful of times per year and, if I’m buying, make sure it is as local as possible. Bonus points if it’s from a farm that has land that’s otherwise crap for vegetable/staple farming (which is a lot here in mountainous Japan)

I would be more worried about sweat, I think.

Then again, I don’t even fart unless I’m sat on a toilet

Probably a harder time as they’re often expected to know all the unwritten rules and behave a certain way. I know people who have struggled a lot to reintegrate. Many end up working for themselves and/or in entertainment if they have a more western mondset

I’ve lived in Japan for the last decade plus and plan to continue doing so for the rest of my life.

If you did it once, you can do it again. Nowhere is perfect, though. If I had it to do over, I’d probably pick one of the Nordics instead of Japan.

Several are made in japan Some of the components may not be. This is why I said I try to buy domestic. I will not let perfect be the enemy of good

I’m a regular guy who saved up for years while studying another language and gtfo of the US. It’s an option.

Some cultures considered sunset to be the end of the day and beginning of the next one. That seems good to me in a sense but very unwieldy for modern 24-hour time. The year also started when life began to return and planting could start.

I try to buy domestic products wherever possible. I very rarely buy western brands of anything

Some think hydrogen is the way to go which is why. I still don’t buy that. It sucks even living here trying to figure out which vehicle to buy when my current one craps out. Electric would be great since I drive only once or twice a week and not long distance save 1-2 trips to see family a year. I don’t want to buy a Chinese EV, but I doubt there will be any remaining options in a few years

I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I’m already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I’ve worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.

The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.

Absolutely. They just take planes (and/or sometimes helicopters) to them.

I was in a big city recently and had business by their BYD dealership. I walked in as I had never seen any of the cars in person. Two of the models they had had physical controls (both the low(er?)-end ones). If I had planned on buying, that would have ruled 2/3 of what they had out. One complaint about my current vehicle is that it has touchscreen exclusively for all the HVAC controls (I have music controls on the wheel). I’m used to my older cars from (my an '83, '86, '95, '97, and '03 in order of model year) that I could adjust anything without taking my eyes off the road. I don’t mind ALSO having a tablet for navigation and the like, but want my main controls to all be physical.

We already do in colloquial Japanese.