i've been posting photos on twitter and then sticking them in my journal entries here, tumblr actually constantly breaks when i try to upload photos (it eats my entries and takes longer to upload images than twitter does) and i really REALLY don't want to deal with tumblr people. i figure that eventually i'll find a safer photospace than twitter but it hasn't changed any of the links on me so far.
i don't know about phones, it seems like our existing phones only work within europe but i'm not actually sure, we have to go to the phone shop and ask. japan has ALWAYS been SUPER weird/expensive with phone plans but i don't know if half of that is just because i'm only ever hearing about stupid people who need their 10g of data a week and whatnot instead of being able to just use a prepaid phone.
yeah for housing… personally i've only lived in 500-$600 a month apartments. they were really shitty, full of bugs and broken stuff and crazy landlords/roommates but it meant we had a place to stay and could afford food and transportation while only having $1,000 a month between two people. in japan you can actually get much nicer places for that same amount of money, or so i've heard (as long as you're not in tokyo) because all you're normally sacrificing is SPACE, not QUALITY like in other countries. if you're like me and all you really need is basic kitchen/bathroom stuff, a handful of clothes and books, internet and some kind of table to do homework on, you don't need much space at all so it's not a problem. and if you're not like me but you don't make much money, you need to become like me lol.
yeah, in japan, sweden and similar countries they really still have the "communal" mindset where you actually treat people with courtesy and respect, and you avoid causing a scene whenever possible. sometimes it's better to cause a bit of a scene but most of the time it really isn't, or so i've come to think. and the few people who DO cause scenes here are just considered completely crazy. i mean it's single individual people - their family members and their friends don't think the same as them.
as for sweden or japan, i personally push for japan (for everyone) because in sweden there's basically no jobs, nothing to do ("huge fairs" are the smallest country fairs ever compared to in america), everything is more expensive than in japan, and in japan you're a huge merit to any business if you can speak english and even BASIC japanese. in sweden, fluent english is such a basic skill it's not even counted as a merit. in sweden everything is really spread out and the public transportation isn't super adequate or fast, in japan you can get ANYWHERE fast. so like, if you want to move to sweden, actually i'd say -- move to japan first, get a job and save up money, THEN use skills or money you've gotten in japan to move to sweden. like, you can live in japan, take classes to learn programming and japanese on the side, live in your super cheap apartment, then come to sweden as a programmer/translator in a few years' time. (japan's population is also LESSENING so it should be easier and easier to get jobs as time goes on). there's just absolutely no jobs in sweden, and sweden is like, good for retired people who don't want to do anything.
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Date: 2017-06-19 10:16 am (UTC)i don't know about phones, it seems like our existing phones only work within europe but i'm not actually sure, we have to go to the phone shop and ask. japan has ALWAYS been SUPER weird/expensive with phone plans but i don't know if half of that is just because i'm only ever hearing about stupid people who need their 10g of data a week and whatnot instead of being able to just use a prepaid phone.
yeah for housing… personally i've only lived in 500-$600 a month apartments. they were really shitty, full of bugs and broken stuff and crazy landlords/roommates but it meant we had a place to stay and could afford food and transportation while only having $1,000 a month between two people. in japan you can actually get much nicer places for that same amount of money, or so i've heard (as long as you're not in tokyo) because all you're normally sacrificing is SPACE, not QUALITY like in other countries. if you're like me and all you really need is basic kitchen/bathroom stuff, a handful of clothes and books, internet and some kind of table to do homework on, you don't need much space at all so it's not a problem. and if you're not like me but you don't make much money, you need to become like me lol.
yeah, in japan, sweden and similar countries they really still have the "communal" mindset where you actually treat people with courtesy and respect, and you avoid causing a scene whenever possible. sometimes it's better to cause a bit of a scene but most of the time it really isn't, or so i've come to think. and the few people who DO cause scenes here are just considered completely crazy. i mean it's single individual people - their family members and their friends don't think the same as them.
as for sweden or japan, i personally push for japan (for everyone) because in sweden there's basically no jobs, nothing to do ("huge fairs" are the smallest country fairs ever compared to in america), everything is more expensive than in japan, and in japan you're a huge merit to any business if you can speak english and even BASIC japanese. in sweden, fluent english is such a basic skill it's not even counted as a merit. in sweden everything is really spread out and the public transportation isn't super adequate or fast, in japan you can get ANYWHERE fast. so like, if you want to move to sweden, actually i'd say -- move to japan first, get a job and save up money, THEN use skills or money you've gotten in japan to move to sweden. like, you can live in japan, take classes to learn programming and japanese on the side, live in your super cheap apartment, then come to sweden as a programmer/translator in a few years' time. (japan's population is also LESSENING so it should be easier and easier to get jobs as time goes on). there's just absolutely no jobs in sweden, and sweden is like, good for retired people who don't want to do anything.