"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3FC22DD1.8B1EB1BC@yahoo.co.jp...
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> > Well, Sage's school runs on the American schedule, so he gets the long
> > summer vacation and Christmas holiday. That's not an issue.
>
> Hiroshima City has an international school. It sounds incredibly
wonderful. It
> also costs IIRC, about 600,000 yen a year per kid. Or was it 60,000 a
month?

Substantially cheaper here, and substantially more expensive in Nagoya.
Also, 60,000 yen/month is cheap for the states -- in California at least,
expect to pay $800+ for a decent private school. While we consumers have
been enjoying a deflationary spiral here in Japan, prices continue their
inexorable upward march in the US.

> Also dealers of used Wharram or Farrier multihulls. But if you are talking
> about a 3 million yen DOWN PAYMENT, I suppose you are talking luxury or
high
> quality, like something made of wood.

Well, it's got to be big enough to live on for a couple years, you see.

> I can forget buying a boat in Japan, unless it is really small or crappy.

If I still have this wild plan 20 years from now, I won't buy a boat in
Japan either. More like something along the lines of buying a boat in
Greece, then cruising around the Med for a couple years, selling the boat,
and moving back to land.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom