Decamping exit strategy

[Osakadave]

The day is almost here. I fly out of KIX Wednesday morning. Last of the sayonaras is tonight.

Edit: How appropriate that this is post #100...

[james]

The day is almost here. I fly out of KIX Wednesday morning. Last of the sayonaras is tonight.

Edit: How appropriate that this is post #100...

congrats!

[Taro Toporific]

The day is almost here. I fly out of KIX Wednesday morning...

I'm envious! I go back to the States for a month every year---Every time I return to Japan my stomach turns when that first blast of the miso/soy/kerosene/fishy funky stench of this place hits me as I step off the plane.

[FG Lurker]

I'm envious! I go back to the States for a month every year---Every time I return to Japan my stomach turns when that first blast of the miso/soy/kerosene/fishy funky stench of this place hits me as I step off the plane.

You'd miss all the concrete if you ever left for good Taro.

[Osakadave]

You'd miss all the concrete if you ever left for good Taro.

I may miss it pretty soon myself - Osaka to small town Iowa is gonna be massive. Hoping to get on my feet and set up in Chicago eventually.

[IkemenTommy]

that first blast of the miso/soy/kerosene/fishy funky stench

Nothing beats spraying the aforementioned cocktail juice all over the toilet bowl in the morning.

[McTojo]

Seriously,

I think I may have contemplated returning to America a dozen times. Reason being, cheeseburgers, chili-cheeseburgers and fatty fast food like Taco Bell. I also miss using English to communicate most of my needs and to challenge my career more. However, the quality of life and standard of living is low in comparison to Japan. I'm so used to the quality of food you can buy in Japan, the diversity of choices when it comes to restaurants. I love the efficiency of the mass transit system. I love the safety and the orderliness in society. How can you leave??

[Yokohammer]

Seriously,

I think I may have contemplated returning to America a dozen times. Reason being, cheeseburgers, chili-cheeseburgers and fatty fast food like Taco Bell. I also miss using English to communicate most of my needs and to challenge my career more. However, the quality of life and standard of living is low in comparison to Japan. I'm so used to the quality of food you can buy in Japan, the diversity of choices when it comes to restaurants. I love the efficiency of the mass transit system. I love the safety and the orderliness in society. How can you leave??

Seriously.

If my major life decisions had to be predicated on junk food, I'd hang myself.

[GomiGirl]

Seriously.

If my major life decisions had to be predicated on junk food, I'd hang myself.

+1

McTojo you are a McTool.

[Greji]

Seriously.

If my major life decisions had to be predicated on junk food, I'd hang myself.

Ahhh, could I borrow your rope. I'm a slop hog for junk food and will even forgo a night with Noriko for the right chillicheeseburger with a double on the grease. Damn, what am I thinking. Make that almost forgo.....

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think I may have contemplated returning to America a dozen times. ... However, the quality of life and standard of living is low in comparison to Japan.

Man, you're a fucking moron.

[McTojo]

:lol:

Man, you're a fucking moron.

I'm a Japanese mommas boy!

[Cyka UchuuJin]

The day is almost here. I fly out of KIX Wednesday morning. Last of the sayonaras is tonight.

Edit: How appropriate that this is post #100...

take care, dave! hope to still see you here on the FG, reporting from the other side.

[xaristides@yahoo.com]

I
I know when I left the first time (1993) it was a really rough landing. The web didn't exist then, and there were no forums like this to seek advice or just shoot-the-shit on. I ha

I started sending e-mails and reading the USA Today online in 1991 at my university (Wisconsin).

[FG Lurker]

I started sending e-mails and reading the USA Today online in 1991 at my university (Wisconsin).

I had various email accounts from about '85 onwards and had full Internet access starting in 1989. The web however is a different beast. The first package considered to be a web browser came out in 1992 but it wasn't until mosaic came out a year and a bit later that the web actually started to grow. It was nothing like today though (obviously).

Services like compuserve offered online content much earlier (late 70s) if you were willing to pay the price.

I suppose I could have found usenet discussions in 1993 but the signal to noise ratio of usenet was already bad by that time and it certainly never got better.

[BigInJapan]

I had various email accounts from about '85 onwards and had full Internet access starting in 1989.

I was around e-mail and BBS etc. from the mid '80s through working with "XT/AT clones" back home, but didn't actually have e-mail myself.
However, I was the only foreigner I knew at the time to have e-mail in Japan when I started working at a Japanese software company in 1994 (it was also the first ISP in that part of inaka).
The Internet (via Mosaic - later Netscape - RIP) was just taking off in Japan (at a snail's pace). Finding the brand new playboy.com and showing my J co-workers their first "hair nudes" was a blast.
Ah memories - the gold ol' days...

[maraboutslim]

I had used online services for alternative news sources back in my college/public radio days (late 80s - early 90s) and so when I came to Japan I joined Twics (Japan's first public isp, and run by gaijin) before mosaic really worked. So our internet world was all text based bulletin board style stuff but quite entertaining nonetheless. And of course the topics and content back then are pretty much the same thing we talk about on this site now!

[Osakadave]

Heh - I was wondering why this popped up to the top.

Still looking (sort of) for a job here. Just got turned down by the library.

[kalebb1999]

like they say... after 1 minute of conversation.. no one really cares you were in Japan.. good luck finding a job... EFL teacher on a resume isn't a door opener...

[McTojo]

like they say... after 1 minute of conversation.. no one really cares you were in Japan.. good luck finding a job... EFL teacher on a resume isn't a door opener...

I'm a door opener!

[Greji]

I'm a door opener!

Really? Do you wear a short skirt and white gloves?

[nickels]

Well, Dave hasn't reported back in some time. That means either A) He's living a ballin' lifestyle of fame and excitement, and doesn't have time for silly Internet boards, or B) He's dead.

[Taro Toporific]

Well, Dave hasn't reported back in some time. That means either A) He's living a ballin' lifestyle of fame and excitement, and doesn't have time for silly Internet boards, or B) He's dead.

Osakadave has been posting few times month up until 08-19-2011, 03:04 PM. I suppose he finally "Graduated" from living and thinking about Japan. People just grow up.

On 05-31-2011, 10:12 AM Osakadave said he was living in the States.
Previously, he had been threatening to leave Japan in the FG posts: 09/15/2009 and 09/16/2009 as well as the time he tried Korea briefly too.

There are other graduates of Japan who no longer have a need to visit the FG Forum include FG member No. 2, "kamome", who hasn't posted here since 03-14-2010 and bikklethe owner who hasn't publicly posted since 05-24-2011.

[Osakadave]

I'm alive yet. I've always lurked here more than posted. And finally getting back to work (even if it's a meh retail job it's better than eikaiwa) cuts into online time.

[McTojo]

I'm so happy when you Fu$$ers leave my country. The quality of life and food is so much better here than in your shitty little countries. And stop breeding with our women here.

[matsuki]

I'm so happy when you Fu$$ers leave my country. The quality of life and food is so much better here than in your shitty little countries. And stop breeding with our women here.

I like maple syrup and hockey as much as the next guy but Canadian women aren't exactly who everyone wants to "breed" with.

[6810]

I'm so happy when you Fu$$ers leave my country. The quality of life and food is so much better here than in your shitty little countries. And stop breeding with our women here.

Shtick? Old. Ye olde, sir.

[Greji]

And stop breeding with our women here.

I've tried, but haven't be able to break the habit. BTW I just did a lactating chick last night. Was your mama late getting home?

[Ganma]

Osakadave has been posting few times month up until 08-19-2011, 03:04 PM. I suppose he finally "Graduated" from living and thinking about Japan. People just grow up.

On 05-31-2011, 10:12 AM Osakadave said he was living in the States.
Previously, he had been threatening to leave Japan in the FG posts: 09/15/2009 and 09/16/2009 as well as the time he tried Korea briefly too.

There are other graduates of Japan who no longer have a need to visit the FG Forum include FG member No. 2, "kamome", who hasn't posted here since 03-14-2010 and bikklethe owner who hasn't publicly posted since 05-24-2011.

I'm alive yet. I've always lurked here more than posted. And finally getting back to work (even if it's a meh retail job it's better than eikaiwa) cuts into online time.

LOL. The online soap opera that never ends.

[2triky]

There are other graduates of Japan who no longer have a need to visit the FG Forum include FG member No. 2, "kamome", who hasn't posted here since 03-14-2010 and bikklethe owner who hasn't publicly posted since 05-24-2011.

Speaking of some of the usual suspects on this board, whatever happened to IkemenTommy? He's been MIA for quite a while too if I'm not mistaken.