"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3F8D222D.C79E73DD@yahoo.co.jp...
> Bryce wrote:
>
> > "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> > news:BBB29219.B220%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> > > in article 44dc0a26.0310140344.13228d01@posting.google.com, Kaz at
> > > kaz762@hotmail.com wrote on 03.10.14 8:44 PM:
> > >
> > > > I wonder why you expats here don't take up this nasty incident
caused by
> > a
> > > > filthy Tokyojap type racist Fukuokajap teacher
> > >
> > > Wasn't the Fukuoka teacher born and raised in Osaka? After all, it is
the
> > > type of thing that Kaz would do, and he says he is from there.
> > >
> >
> > Hey now! What's wrong with Osaka?
>
> I don't care that Japan's large cities are crowded, if I lived there, I'd
find
> a way to deal with the higher cost of living, and Tokyo and Osaka traffic
don't
> bother me, but I don't like big cities because they are too spread out. I
don't
> want to take a train completely across town just to go shopping or go to a
> restaurant. I don't want to have to catch a taxi because trains stop
running
> soon after midnight. I don't want my kids growing up in Shibuya or America
Mura
> with twisted material values and weird friends whom I will never meet or
know
> anything about. Fukuyama doesn't have much, but aside from the nearest
American
> Consulate, everything I need is here, and nearly all of it is within
walking
> distance.
>
> And if I moved across the border to Okayama, one of the cheapest
prefectures
> with good public services, like I am planning to do, there would even be a
> prestigious public university and good quality high schools nearby.
>

Big cities too spread out? Do you realize how spread out a 10-15 million
people cities are in the states or somewhere else?Japan's big cities are
great because they are so compact and dense with great transportation that
can get you anywhere quickly, unless you live in some "hill-billy" place
where you have to wait for a train that only comes once every hour or two.
Yeah, there are whackos in any city you live in... give me one that doesn't?
And what... Okayama has the only prestigious public university?