inflames wrote:Yokohammer wrote:That means I'd better not even speak to most of the women on the planet.
I recently got married and that has basically been the rule - just don't talk to most women.
About daycare - at least here in Osaka I know people where the mom stays at home and the kids still go to government daycare, so it's not entirely impossible.
From what I have seen the problem is mostly in Tokyo. The daycare my kid went to had 20 open spots but no one wants to live anywhere north of Akabane. Tokyo people tend to believe anything north of Akabane and anything south of Yokohama is no man's land and you will surly die if you live past those points. The joke is they spend the same amount of time on the train as someone that lives near Omiya.
Decentralization needs to happen but no one, not even the people want to do it. There is some sort of strange Japanese pride thing about living in Tokyo prefecture even tho they have a smaller home, higher bills and tax, zero privacy, shitty commutes, no daycare, no car, etc... I never understood it.