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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 66 points 23 hours ago

Wait until they will discover affordable housing thing.

[-] kalleboo@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

Housing is pretty affordable in Japan since housing in Japan is not an investment, it depreciates like a car (only the land has value, the house ontop of it has literally negative value since it's assumed anyone will want to bulldoze it), and their lax zoning allows for continual densification to happen.

[-] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 31 points 22 hours ago

Wait until you find out it is normal to tip your landlord there

https://www.interlinkjapan.com/blog/renting/key-money

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 10 points 20 hours ago

Usually the newer buildings owned by larger real estate groups don't do they kept money thing anymore.

I've only really seen it in buildings owned by small real estate concerns and old dudes.

It's luckily getting kind of pushed out as a normal thing, just slowly.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Only once in my life have I got my damage deposit back. That is tipping the landlord a lot of money. The time I got it back was in a terrible situation and I had leverage over the parasite.

[-] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

They also have security deposits on top of that as well

[-] regul@lemm.ee 27 points 23 hours ago

Housing in Tokyo is known for being relatively affordable, actually.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 29 points 22 hours ago

ya it's funny when you watch some videos about "small apartments" in tokyo and only to realize they are still more cheaper and spacious than some NA options in big cities.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

less expensive more expansive

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 13 points 20 hours ago

Not in Tokyo, but farther out in Tokyo's residential cities (outside the 23 wards like Chiba and Saitama)

It's even cheaper the farther you get from train stations. There's a 30 minute walk "cliff" where residential land prices plummet when you're more than 30 minutes walk away from a train station.