Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:3F83FAEA.7A73CAD6@yahoo.co.jp...
> > http://www.myplanst.co.jp/
> >
> > People want to dump their Niigata houses for as low as 480,000 (no
> misprint)
> > yen.
>
> And the question you need to ask yourself is, why are they willing to sell
> their houses so cheaply? Because nobody wants to live there.

Hey, houses in Fukuyama go as low as 4 million yen in the city, too (3.3
million in an adjoining city to be merged), and I don't see what's wrong. I
would live here the rest of my life if I could.

> During my sentence in Ohio (did you know -- every year spent in Ohio knocks
> of two years from purgatory), I saw nice-looking homes with land being
> offered for US$60K or so. The problem was the same -- you would have to live
> in Ohio!

And what's wrong with living there?