declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> In the Sydney, LA or Manchester sense yes. The urban area is only 7
> million or so, but when you cross the Mikawa-ben & Owari-ben border it
> feels like a different city, which I don't hear going from say
> Shinagawa down to Yokohama.

I mean they're a bunch of hicks living in an urban setting (far more hickish
than Tokyo, by a long shot).

Jeff