tm wrote:
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> 
>>B Robson wrote in message
> 
> 
>>>Recently while searching for an apartment I gave up as I was continually
>>>rejected. For me, an engineer with a job at a good Japanese company and
>>>references it was difficult. Others must have an impossible time.
>>
>>When my wife and I first moved to Japan in 1995 (yes I am a newbie), we (or
>>she rather) literally called/visited 10s of real-estate agents looking for
>>an apartment. After a while it got to be a routine:
>>
>>"Do you have any vacancies? Great. By the way my husband is a gaijin... Oh,
>>I see. Well thank you then."
> 
> 
> Every time i have moved i have sat in a realtor's office while they 
> call the prospective landlord to explain that I am foreign. The 
> landlord invariably inquires further about what sort of foreigner. 
> Fortunately, i am not Korean. 

Horrible thing to think isn't it? I was thinking, lucky I'm not Indian.