I make good money, but I just need to know where to live. I like cool weathered places, nothing REALLY hot. So, any suggestions? Dont say something like, "Nowhere" or "on the streets" An good quality apartment. Nothing big nor fancy. Just decent
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Make good money? Doing what? Do you speak Japanese? Do you have a working visa? Are you ready to renounce your current citizenship?
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that's a rather big question and rather broad since you could practically say anywhere. And everyplace gets quite hot and humid in summer except Hokkaido so perhaps that might be a good area to look. as for apartments, many of them you have to pay what's known as key money which is basically a gift to the landlord - usually one month's rent. So be aware of this and try to find ones that don't have this practice.
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Karuizawa is a famous summer resort. It was made by the British, much western culture is there. Most of inhabitants are rich, and can speak English.
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small villages and farms areas are cheap and the weather is always ok
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Hokkaido's not bad. There's more space, bigger apartments, fewer people, less demand, lower prices. Cold though.
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Yoyogi Park :-D . But seriously, nowhere if you don't have a visa. And if you don't speak Japanese well, act polite, and find a non-racist realator (they are the most racist people in Japan, probably because they've had plenty of other idiot foreigners thinking they could just pay the rent and put up an American flag and say To each his own), you are going to get ripped off in all kinds of ways. If you somehow manage to handle all this, its basically just the further away from the city and the further away from a station the cheaper. There are nice and crappy places everywhere but nice or crappy are both much cheaper in the country side or if your willing to walk 40 minutes to the station. Most foreigners in Japan have to resort to living in guest houses which are kind of like a combination of a hotel, a hospital and a prison for at least their first few months until they figure out how things work.
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