I don't understand the housing market in Japan

[Sonny Qc]

This traditional Japanese house is listed at just 2.5 million yen ($16,130 USD) located in Shikokuchuo City, Ehime Prefecture.

Key Highlights:
• Price: ¥2,500,000 ($16,130 USD)
• Large 10DK (10 rooms plus dining-kitchen) layout

Transportation:
• 10 minutes by car to JR Sekikawa Station
• About 1 hour 45 minutes by car to Matsuyama Airport



How can you buy a house for the price of a used Toyota Corolla?

 

[Captain Tenneal]

Becuase those houses are typically seen as depreciating assets. After about 20-30 years, a house is often considered worthless

America, Canada is kind of the opposite

 

[TribalDrumz]

Meet me in Kyoto I’ll be there in June

 

[Sonny Qc]

Meet me in Kyoto I’ll be there in June

Does Kyoto have a redlight district?

 

[M4rk]

Ill be in Tokyo in April

 

[M4rk]

Does Kyoto have a redlight district?

Theres a red light district everywhere

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

I bought a house 2 weeks ago for 20k in Ironwood Michigan.

You can buy houses for reasonable amounts in the US.

 

[Sonny Qc]

I bought a house 2 weeks ago for 20k in Ironwood Michigan.

You can buy houses for reasonable amounts in the US.

This shit is 300k (CAD) in one of the poorest neighborood in Quebec City

 

[Sonny Qc]

I bought a house 2 weeks ago for 20k in Ironwood Michigan.

You can buy houses for reasonable amounts in the US.

Does Ironwood, Michigan have food and woman that look like this?

 

[tabascojet]

This shit is 300k (CAD) in one of the poorest neighborood in Quebec City

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Turn it into a brothel.... think of all the money you'll save on trips to Kyoto :thumb:

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

Does Ironwood, Michigan have food and woman that look like this?

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The racial makeup of the city was 97.52% white, so it does not have many woman who look like that.

 

[Lycandroid]

Taxes and regulations which factor into more than half of the home prices in Canada virtually don't exist in Japan. It is astronomically cheaper to build there.

 

[Berserker13]

Probably because they don't want you to ....

 

[moreorless87]

Location is a massive factor, Shikokuchuo "City" is really just a med to small sized town with a population under 100K and looks quite out of the way on Shikoku island.

Very little demand for housing in most of more rural Japan as the Japanese job market is very focused on the big cities, even moreso than most western nations, I'm guessing because home working is less common and long office hours mean you don't want to commute long distances.

 

[Renard]

There are no jobs in rural areas. You basically need to be an expat working remotely or an influencer getting YT bucks making a renovation series. And even then you're still stuck in the countryside with old people and nothing to do. Italy has the same problem. Lovely little rural villages with 15K houses but there's nobody there. No young people, no hot chicks, no clubs, no activities of any kind, just old people selling veggies in the market or w/e. Could do OK as a vacation home though.

 

[Berserker13]

Location is a massive factor, Shikokuchuo "City" is really just a med to small sized town with a population under 100K and looks quite out of the way on Shikoku island.

Very little demand for housing in most of more rural Japan as the Japanese job market is very focused on the big cities, even moreso than most western nations, I'm guessing because home working is less common and long office hours mean you don't want to commute long distances.

There's tons of abandoned homes in big cities,

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[TeTe]

Does Kyoto have a redlight district?

No but Tokyo does. Although good luck in kabukicho, they usually keep foreigners out of the good places.

 

[TeTe]

I bought a house 2 weeks ago for 20k in Ironwood Michigan.

You can buy houses for reasonable amounts in the US.

Good place to live if you want to be cut off from civilization in the winter.

 

[TeTe]

Having a house there is like having a vacation home since integrating into Japanese society as a foreigner is next to impossible. Unless you marry a Japanese person.

Getting anything beyond a tourist visa is extremely difficult.

 

[Sonny Qc]

No but Tokyo does. Although good luck in kabukicho, they usually keep foreigners out of the good places.

I will fill the place that won't ket me in with uppercuts.

Come and try me Yakuzas!