another fool wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message news:<3FCF368C.17640883@yahoo.co.jp>...
> > > Something about I could live there she and the kids would be with mom.
> >
> > Many Japanese don't get it. Here foreigners are isolated from all our
> > other family and friends, having given up property large enough to be
> > mistaken for a public park near the coast of Hawaii for example, and they
> > complain if they can't be near their own family and friends, or in a
> > really nice place like urban Osaka or Tokyo. They complain they can't get
> > "interesting" or high paying work.
>
> Wife isn`t interested in working - at least till the kiddos get into
> school so another 5 years +.  She (of course) is bitchy because we`re
> not in Tokyo the center of all things cool

My goodness. Precisely what I meant. If that's what she wanted, perhaps she should have married an
elite Tokyo based salaryman, or be more willing to work to pay for that kind of lifestyle.

Or you could live in Chiba. Chiba can be as cheap as those rural sites I showed you, particularly
on the coast, or in central Chiba kind of near Narita International Airport.

http://tinyurl.com/xutp

I don't know why property in Chiba is so damned cheap either, cheaper than Hiroshima, and the sea
and beaches are much better.

You can also see cheap property in downtown Tokyo and rural Tokyo. If you don't mind the suburban
sprawl (I hate it), I'm sure you can find something affordable.

> - never mind that she
> couldn`t go anywhere with the 2 kiddos she just wants to live in Tokyo
> instead of BFE like we do now.
>
> I will say she put up rather admirably with the same feeling I am
> experiencing for almost 6 years but then she did have a better
> developed support network in the SF bay area and then in Austin where
> there was a large group of Japanese wives who got together.
>
> > Hyogo has a number of rural properties, though probably in the south or
> > center. In urban areas, Hyogo is kind of expensive.
>
> Yeah I know - and naturally she wants to go back to Takarazuka where
> she grew up - trying to put a stop to that notion we`ll see if it is
> successful.  I`m not holding my breath.
>
> > Here are two sites I use:
> > http://tinyurl.com/xoxj
> > http://tinyurl.com/xoxs
>
> wow look at the views:
> http://tinyurl.com/xtq3

That house kicks ass. I love looking at that page. It even has its own pond. That is "the real
Japan". I could probably make a little money by letting people stay in my house or go camping on
my land.

But not even I will DRIVE 15.6 km to the station, nor DRIVE 14 km to get to the supermarket, or
DRIVE 4.5 km to get to the hospital.

> and a log cabin:
> http://tinyurl.com/xtq9

It's great, but too small for me. It needs two more rooms upstairs.

Check out the location on Mapion. You may not like it.

If I had twice the amount of money, I'd buy my three acre llama farm:

http://tinyurl.com/6

> Going to have to see if I can get her to show me where those damned
> things are.

http://www.mapion.co.jp/

Simply cut the location out from the real estate page, and paste it in the Mapion search window,
and give it a go. With Mapion, you can do searches for the nearest listed schools, shopping areas,
hospitals, post offices, financial institutions, etc.

> Couldn`t get the 2nd site to work

Maybe they were updating it at the time. Seems fine now.

> but I didn`t play with
> it too much - maybe the wife will help instead of giving me that
> disapproving look before aiming a well placed knee.

There should be a lot of property available in or near Takarazuka. You can find that easily
through a net search.

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