Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> "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.

I don't think of local international schools as private school. I think of it
as school where they can be raised in an English speaking environment, ie, what
can be had for free back home.

> > 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.

Then you might look into a large Wharram. Very reasonable for something so big
and assembled by hand.

> > 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.