declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> NC86 wrote:
>>> I'm biased because I'm an outdoors person. I'd prefer to live
>>> someplace where I can hop on my bike and ride or go hiking/rock
>>> climbing without spending a good part of the day just getting to
>>> the place to do the activity. When I lived in Kobe I was a few
>>> minutes walk from great restaurants and bars, ten minutes from the
>>> main Sannomiya rail station, and only five minutes walk from some
>>> great trails and scenery. For me it was ideal.
>>
>> Coming from a smaller city (pop 1.5 mil) with a very outdoor
>> lifestyle I am more interested in a huge metropolis like Tokyo.
>
> Sounds like you are from Adelaide or Perth. If you can't find a good
> school in Tokyo but want to experience the big smoke Japanese style
> your only other search options would be Kansai (Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto/Nara)
> or the urban part of the Chubu (Nagoya/Toyota/Toyohashi etc). Sapporo
> & Fukuoka are basically large country towns, though they feel more
> like cities than most parts of Tokyo.

Nagoya is like an even bigger country town. Very unlike Tokyo in many
respects.