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Post by spatial on Dec 16, 2018 7:33:06 GMT 10
If it seems too good to be true it probably is. Buyer beware! I'd be looking to find out if this house has some kind of EPA contamination notice or something on it. Or a Heritage order that makes renovation impossible. Or maybe the place is next door to something objectionable, owners cant sell it and are tired of paying rates and taxes on it. Japan has a massive population decline, in many areas there are hundreds of empty houses. Japan now sells more adult diapers than baby diapers as the ageing population explodes and birth rates tumble. www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/birth-rates-in-japan-fall-to-lowest-level-on-record-1.3336732Some companies in Japan close early on Friday and get in relationship specialists and try pair workers up to go on dates. Japan has a huge virgin population +40%, and they are offered free nude sketching classes. In Australia I briefly watched a TV show where in a rural area the farmers were renting houses for $2 a month to try and build up the town. Australia has low birth rate as well, but there is huge immigration that makes up the difference in the cities. Why are almost half of Japan's millennials still virgins?edition.cnn.com/2016/09/20/asia/japanese-millennials-virgins/index.html
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Post by Pion on Dec 16, 2018 12:17:23 GMT 10
Just so much material to provide comment on that post...lol...if only the flies would give me a moment while in trying to have a smoke!, ergh!...
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Post by spinifex on Dec 16, 2018 12:43:13 GMT 10
If it seems too good to be true it probably is. Buyer beware! I'd be looking to find out if this house has some kind of EPA contamination notice or something on it. Or a Heritage order that makes renovation impossible. Or maybe the place is next door to something objectionable, owners cant sell it and are tired of paying rates and taxes on it. Japan has a massive population decline, in many areas there are hundreds of empty houses. Japan now sells more adult diapers than baby diapers as the ageing population explodes and birth rates tumble. www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/birth-rates-in-japan-fall-to-lowest-level-on-record-1.3336732Some companies in Japan close early on Friday and get in relationship specialists and try pair workers up to go on dates. Japan has a huge virgin population +40%, and they are offered free nude sketching classes. In Australia I briefly watched a TV show where in a rural area the farmers were renting houses for $2 a month to try and build up the town. Australia has low birth rate as well, but there is huge immigration that makes up the difference in the cities. Why are almost half of Japan's millennials still virgins?edition.cnn.com/2016/09/20/asia/japanese-millennials-virgins/index.htmlBegs the question as to why Japan hasn't gone down the mass immigration path. They could take the folks out of our offshore prison camps. Everyone's a winner. Also ... I've seen docos about japanese homeless people ... so ... wonder what the hell they are doing over there?
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Post by Peter on Dec 16, 2018 19:19:01 GMT 10
Because all the Japanese people I've known have been hugely nationalistic. They don't want to cede their country to foreigners.
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Post by spatial on Dec 18, 2018 16:34:35 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Dec 19, 2018 19:24:20 GMT 10
Because all the Japanese people I've known have been hugely nationalistic. They don't want to cede their country to foreigners. Heh, Heh, heh ... they must be very old. Google 'Japanese youth culture' then click the Images tab and prepare to be astounded as to how far the young people there have crashed. Its nuts. The youngsters seem to want to be cartoons. Literally. The google 'Japan youth Problems' and read about the proportion of Japanese youngsters who wont leave their bedrooms. If there was ever a culture that needs some 'Can Do' immigrants its them. They need some crusty Rohingyas thrown in among them!
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Post by grumble on Dec 19, 2018 20:13:56 GMT 10
Because all the Japanese people I've known have been hugely nationalistic. They don't want to cede their country to foreigners. Heh, Heh, heh ... they must be very old. Google 'Japanese youth culture' then click the Images tab and prepare to be astounded as to how far the young people there have crashed. Its nuts. The youngsters seem to want to be cartoons. Literally. The google 'Japan youth Problems' and read about the proportion of Japanese youngsters who wont leave their bedrooms. If there was ever a culture that needs some 'Can Do' immigrants its them. They need some crusty Rohingyas thrown in among them! i'll admit it that wasn't my proudest Fap
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Post by Peter on Dec 19, 2018 22:03:12 GMT 10
The Japanese that I knew weren't particularly old... but then again it was over twenty years ago that I knew them. And they were very traditional in many ways.
Perhaps the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket...
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Post by norseman on Dec 20, 2018 6:16:13 GMT 10
We served the Japs their balls back to them on a plate post WW2 and they never really recovered! Sure there was some bounce back and a period of economic prosperity but deep down we thoroughly, brained screwed them into oblivion and beyond! What you see with their current youth is the progeny of some seriously depressed and morally distraught forebears. I always questioned why they saved the Emperor from the hangman's noose but now I know why! Even the Americans who are renowned for putting the boot in when someone is down knew when it was time to stop!
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Post by norseman on Dec 20, 2018 7:24:49 GMT 10
The Japs got what they deserved. Absolutely! I'm not for one minute saying they didn't get what was coming to them and totally justified! My point goes deeper than who / how we won WW2 it's an observation of what you can do to a nation and it's people if you let TPTB f*** em over good enough! Australia, NZ, South Africa, UK, Canada etc etc are next unless they change course asap!
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Post by spatial on Dec 20, 2018 10:48:13 GMT 10
The Japs got what they deserved. Absolutely! I'm not for one minute saying they didn't get what was coming to them and totally justified! My point goes deeper than who / how we won WW2 it's an observation of what you can do to a nation and it's people if you let TPTB f*** em over good enough! Australia, NZ, South Africa, UK, Canada etc etc are next unless they change course asap! The germans and Japanese were treated very well post WW2. Japan is has 3rd largest economy and Germany is the powerhouse of Europe. Theyjust got rich andcut back on size of family. Allof Europe has the same problem. Japan today has very strongly patriotic, they have just doubled their military budget, and are lookingat getting aircraft carriers to counter China. Japanese did become somewhat pacifists after the war. Japanese anime isa worldwide phenomenon, cos play where the dress up as a character is normal. My children used do itas well, there are big conventions in Sydney every year.
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Post by norseman on Dec 20, 2018 11:59:56 GMT 10
Absolutely! I'm not for one minute saying they didn't get what was coming to them and totally justified! My point goes deeper than who / how we won WW2 it's an observation of what you can do to a nation and it's people if you let TPTB f*** em over good enough! Australia, NZ, South Africa, UK, Canada etc etc are next unless they change course asap! The germans and Japanese were treated very well post WW2. Japan is has 3rd largest economy and Germany is the powerhouse of Europe. Theyjust got rich andcut back on size of family. Allof Europe has the same problem. Japan today has very strongly patriotic, they have just doubled their military budget, and are lookingat getting aircraft carriers to counter China. Japanese did become somewhat pacifists after the war. Japanese anime isa worldwide phenomenon, cos play where the dress up as a character is normal. My children used do itas well, there are big conventions in Sydney every year. Those economic stats you quote might matter to someone spatial but it sure isn't the Japanese people! Their youth suicide rate is at an all time high, they don't have the motivation to marry and reproduce, they have zero population growth, they are getting old, retired and dying without bothering to replace themselves!
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Post by spatial on Dec 20, 2018 15:44:02 GMT 10
Those economic stats you quote might matter to someone spatial but it sure isn't the Japanese people! Their youth suicide rate is at an all time high, they don't have the motivation to marry and reproduce, they have zero population growth, they are getting old, retired and dying without bothering to replace themselves! That is all true, but in the west and Australia - living on welfare and subsidence abuse is worse. The US has a declining life expectancy due to drugs. If economy does not completely crash automation will take up most of jobs.
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Post by spinifex on Dec 20, 2018 16:14:51 GMT 10
The Japanese that I knew weren't particularly old... but then again it was over twenty years ago that I knew them. And they were very traditional in many ways. Perhaps the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket... By the look of the clientele at the skate park I drive past when I go to the nearest large town ... a lot of our youth are trending down the Japan path. I wake up every morning and give thanks my kids ride horses, get involved with charities, know how to look after chooks and goats and reject the youth boozing scene.
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Post by fei on Dec 30, 2018 15:05:44 GMT 10
I spent a couple of weeks in Japan earlier in the year, on an organised tour. The guide had a lot of interesting stats, such as over 40% of the population is now aged over 60, with almost half of that amount aged over 80. Basically, in 15 - 20 years time, around a quarter of the current population will have died. I noticed that many of the hotels we stayed had foreign staff (apparently mainly Nepalese) in the kitchens, although many of the menial jobs were done by Japanese guys in their sixties or older. The Japs never welcomed expats or immigrants in the past, but in the last decade or so have realised they need the immigrant population, otherwise the whole country will not have enough workers and finally will be depopulated by the end of the century. (Their society still frowns on marriage to foreigners though, while people don't like having foreign friends; so I wonder if they will end up with foreign populations doing everything for them, buy being treated as second-class citizens).
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