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Originally Posted by Dezzy

Japan's a country I've always wanted to visit but it's always been a place I'd hate to live in.

Yeah, I know someone who went to live there. He's loved Japanese culture his enitre life, has a degree (a 1st) in Japanese... was his life's dream to live there. He moved back after two years, had come to hate living there, and was actually put off a lot of what he loved about it for a while (though he does still love it, now, and goes for short term visits).

A lot of that can be put down to "culture shock" I guess, most people struggle a bit living in a culture they weren't raised in, but also there are just aspects of day-to-day life in modern Japan that are just brutal, and seemingly unavoidable... for many, you can either work ridiculous hours and be exhausted and miserable - or not work the hours, and be ridiculed and miserable. People working 50 hour weeks being laughed at like "lazy part-timers" etc.