Japan ranked #10 as best countries to live in

[Bucky]

Norway takes the number one spot in the annual United Nations human development index released Monday but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens.
The index compiled by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) ranks 182 countries based on such criteria as life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. . . .
. . . The top ten countries listed on the index are: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Japan.

The United States ranks 13th, down one spot from last year.

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[Cyka UchuuJin]

Hmmm. Seems they left out part of a sentence there. Japan is a great place to live...

If you are Japanese!

[wuchan]

Hmmm. Seems they left out part of a sentence there. Japan is a great place to live...

If you are Japanese!

QFT.....

If you are Japanese by bloodline!

fxed

[Cyka UchuuJin]

QFT.....



fxed

hahaha. much obliged, sir!

[hundefar]

Norway? Everything is extremely expensive, all bars close at 3 o'clock and it is a tad boring up there.

[xenomorph42]

Hmmm. Seems they left out part of a sentence there. Japan is a great place to live...

If you are Japanese!

And got some Japanese mad loot to boot!:cool:

[nottu]

[eddie]

My main issue with Japan is that I've become allergic to the air (it appears)!

Anyone else find this? I never had allergies before living here. Now every couple months I turn into a sneezing out-of-sorts mess. What is that!?

[IkemenTommy]

OK, I am packing my bags to move to any one of these countries: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland... because it is so happening there.

[Coligny]

My main issue with Japan is that I've become allergic to the air (it appears)!

Anyone else find this? I never had allergies before living here. Now every couple months I turn into a sneezing out-of-sorts mess. What is that!?

Few times a month in Toyohashi the whole city smell like some kind of some strange paint mix. Other people (I mean normal people, not the poor soul affected by my reality distortion fields) also noticed. For me it became so nauseating that I have to barricade at home.

So i'm not exactly surprised by your statement. (also there is a chicken slaughterhouse on the -pedestrian- way to my closest Kahma... I'f i'm unlucky enough to walk by when their doors are open I can't refrain from vomitting on the sidewalk... (they also tend to let fur/skins on crates in the parking, they are quite popular with the local crows and the cats will soon be big enough to topple their delivery truck)...

ahh the limitless joys of 3rd world countries...

[xenomorph42]

OK, I am packing my bags to move to any one of these countries: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland... because it is so happening there.

Never been down under, so I can't say. Same goes for Ireland. As for Norway, quite boring, plus the food is nothing to rave about.




Same goes for Iceland. Who the hell wants to have a cold beer in more icy cold ice bar?!

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.gadling.com/media/2006/02/Ice-Bar.jpg

Canada does have some great Molson, just by that alone, I might consider it, but the cold.....

http://mmmwords.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/molsoncanadian-bottleandglass-1.jpg

Hmmmmm...decisions, decisions. What's a FG supposed to do.

[Greji]

OK, I am packing my bags to move to any one of these countries: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland... because it is so happening there.

Ain't no YBF in them there places. Can't move to no YBF Free Zones....

[Greji]

ahh the limitless joys of 3rd world countries...

[You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Coligny again.]

[IkemenTommy]

ahh the limitless joys of 3rd world countries...

Just because they aren't part of the G7, doesn't mean they are third world countries. (Though they feel like it at times)

Ain't no YBF in them there places. Can't move to no YBF Free Zones....

There are always enough of those dumb ryuugakusei girls there from Japan trying to learn Engrish. Vancouver Hongkouver is no exception for a YBF paradise. (Of course, why would anyone go all the way there when there are plenty of them here)

[FG Lurker]

ahh the limitless joys of 3rd world countries...

My favorite description of Japan is that it's a 3rd world country with 1st world toys.

[FG Lurker]

Hmmm. Seems they left out part of a sentence there. Japan is a great place to live...

If you are Japanese!

Bullshit. Living in Japan as a smart gaijin is far better than living in Japan as a native. While I realize the country is not for everyone, if you can make it work for you the opportunities here are limitless.

[IkemenTommy]

Bullshit. Living in Japan as a smart gaijin is far better than living in Japan as a native. While I realize the country is not for everyone, if you can learn to make it work for you the opportunities here are limitless.

Wurd.
Cyka had one sour experience with the local authorities but people usually learn not to run into trouble the second time around, if they learn from their mistakes.

[FG Lurker]

Cyka had one sour experience with the local authorities but people usually learn not to run into trouble the second time around, if they learn from their mistakes.

Agreed. The bitterness from failure is starting to get a bit old...

[irishpacker]

I note Ireland (where I'm from) is ranked 5th again... Lord knows why! We're ridiculously expensive, have poor public transport, crippled healthcare system, rising unemployment, poor public services and amenities in general and when you think about it we don't really have a lot to see or do...

... although, you can't beat a night out in Dublin! I'd say the fact the world seems to love us and you can't beat us socially raises our average score up a good few notches! Come on the irish!!!

[Cyka UchuuJin]

[quote="nottu"]Interesting first reactions.
I think under certain circumstances, there's nothing better than being a Gaijin in Japan, and wouldn't have it any other way.
I think the value of Japan as a great place to live or not depends on circumstances. The variety of circumstances would change the contrast Japan holds against other places (home countries). Some people would find Japan better under certain conditions than others.
I know from personal experience that I hated living in Japan working for a Japanese company or teaching English. When I was young and hanging out, I did both, but after a short while I couldn't take it anymore and split. I preferred to live in the US then.
However, while working for myself, I preferred and still prefer to live in Japan than the US.
Also, finances have something to do with it. Which would you prefer if your income level is low? high? It changes everything. For me in general, at a low income level I think I would prefer the US]

the following circumstances could be qualified as 'nothing better than being a gaijin in japan':

-you are taking a gap year with nothing better to do than go live in japan and teach english because you can't face having to go to uni yet
-you can't get laid back home to save your life
-you have YBF combined with terminal ignorance/naivity/stupidity and believe that you'll land a sweet little j-wife who will love and cherish you always
-you are a masochist who gets off on constantly being discriminated against and need to feel inferior due to your skin colour
-you're an otaku/paedophile. in which case you should be taken out back and shot

otherwise you're just fucking stupid thinking that japan is some kind of gaijin utopia.

as for the 'being self employed i'd rather live in japan instead of the united states', let me let you in on a little secret...there are literally HUNDREDS of other countries besides america. i know it's hard for you to imagine that there actually are other inhabitable places in the world, but it's true. check it out sometime!

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Wurd.
Cyka had one sour experience with the local authorities but people usually learn not to run into trouble the second time around, if they learn from their mistakes.

I've not had any instances with Japanese authorities since the KIX incident and in fact, continue to travel there 4-6 times a year on business. i'll be there twice over next 7 weeks.

i choose not to live there because the yen sucks, the hot and cold attitude towards foreign business is not favourable for foreign companies, and the xenophobia gets old.

there's lots of nice things about japan. the food is good, i like buying underwear and clothes there, building sculptures at fuji rock is one of the highlights of my year, kohama and iriomote islands are in my top 10 places in the world to go, and i still think the kansai region is lovely.

again, there's lots of great things about japan, but in the top ten countries to live in? not for most foreigners it's not.

and anyway, this isn't the 'i love japan so much in my special place' forum.

ps...to both of you...the kix incident happened a year ago. greji and i joke about it because it's funny now. you don't like my posts? don't read them.

pps...you're both pots calling kettles black. if i really felt like it, i could go back and find twice as many bitter posts composed by both of you than i've ever written. but so glad it makes you both feel better to suck each other's cocks with the 'oooo cyka's a bitter FG' .

[IkemenTommy]

let me let you in on a little secret...there are literally HUNDREDS of other countries besides america.

Yet no country comes CLOSE from being on the same level as the US. (Yes, even right now in this shit economy)

i choose not to live there because the yen sucks, the hot and cold attitude towards foreign business is not favourable for foreign companies, and the xenophobia gets old.

That's your opinion. Others like Grej, FGL, and I are milking the current <90JPY to the USD exchange rate.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Hey, I'm a bitter FG!
Japan sucks...and swallows, which is why I stay here!

[IkemenTommy]

Hey, I'm a bitter FG!
Japan sucks...and swallows, which is why I stay here!

And fuck you to the coward that gave me the red who dared not to speak out on here. Seriously go fuck yourself. It was probably some loser piece of shit Engrish teacher in some bumfucked inaka

says the unemployed guy who posted not long ago about his finacial woes in japan.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Yet no country comes CLOSE from being on the same level as the US. (Yes, even right now in this shit economy)


That's your opinion. Others like Grej, FGL, and I are milking the current <90JPY to the USD exchange rate.

the US is great if you like failing banks and fat chicks. and fast food.

i'm thinking you've never been to europe, have you? i can name at least half a dozen countries there that are financially more solvent and have a much better quality of life than america.

and yes, it's my opinion. i don't know what foreign company you work for (unless you are still not employed?), but japan has never truly has what i'd call a 'favourable' attitude towards foreign companies. they tolerate the presence of them, because they lend that 'look, we're international...we've got macdonalds and hard rock cafes and gap stores... but i have yet to see the japanese culture truly embrace a foreign company as 'equal' to a japanese corporation. they may take on a few as 'flavour of the month' (perfect case in point, a couple years ago when wangari maathai was nobel laureate and kenya named a new species of butterfly after the world expo in aichi...everyone wanted to import kenyan coffee and flowers), but other than whatever brand of jeans the roppongi girls are wearing on their asses this month, foreign companies ain't gonna be any kind of crown jewel of japan.

you and FGL (i live Greji out of this because until he jumps onto your 'cyka's so bitter bandwagon, i think you should let him speak for himself) might be milking the strong yen right now personally, i suggest you have a read of the financial news, as that strong yen is literally killing the economy of japan as a whole. so let's just revisit how finanically well off you are in about a year, shall we?

[FG Lurker]

the following circumstances could be qualified as 'nothing better than being a gaijin in japan':

[blah blah blah bitter about Japan blah blah blah]

otherwise you're just fucking stupid thinking that japan is some kind of gaijin utopia.

[more blah blah blah]

I was fully expecting your red dot and I thank you for the good laugh. Unless your "6 figure euro salary" is a monthly figure I fail to see why it would be worthy of mention.

Seriously, your bitter ex-gaijin posts are getting old. Get over it. You got chewed up and spat out by Japan. Move on, I'm sure you'll manage a degree of success somewhere else.

[FG Lurker]

pps...you're both pots calling kettles black. if i really felt like it, i could go back and find twice as many bitter posts composed by both of you than i've ever written. [cut something about Cyka and cock sucking]

I don't think you'll have much luck finding posts showing me being bitter about Japan. Are there problems here? Sure, and I'll point them out when I see them. The DPJ's constant bungling is certainly one. The strong yen is costing me more than your "6 figure salary" these days, that's certainly another. Making valid comments about current realities doesn't make me bitter.

It looks like Tommy and I hit a rather raw nerve though! Go for a run and calm down.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

And fuck you to the coward that gave me the red who dared not to speak out on here. Seriously go fuck yourself. It was probably some loser piece of shit Engrish teacher in some bumfucked inaka

that was me, tommy. there wasn't enough space to sign my name but i thought you'd have been able to figure it out.

i gave it to you for your 'oh boo hoo, cyka never says anything nice about japan, especially in a thread that was just begging to be made fun of'.

[IkemenTommy]

the US is great if you like failing banks and fat chicks. and fast food.

[bla bla bla American stereotypes and more bla bla bla]

[bla bla bla I fly first-class into KIX from Dubai and get thrown in to the Japanese gulag so therefore Japan is the most racist country known to man bla bla bla]

You know what Cyka, your posts make me laugh sometimes. I am sure you are not that big of a bitch in real person, but you seem to vent off your utter frustration about Japan on here too much. You're right. Japan is not perfect. US is not either. But please tell me where is. Wherever it is, I don't care.

Oh, you seem to have wasted your red snot on me already so you can't give me another one for this post. Too bad.

[FG Lurker]

you and FGL (i live Greji out of this because until he jumps onto your 'cyka's so bitter bandwagon, i think you should let him speak for himself) might be milking the strong yen right now personally, i suggest you have a read of the financial news, as that strong yen is literally killing the economy of japan as a whole. so let's just revisit how finanically well off you are in about a year, shall we?

I think you type faster when you're angry!

Actually unfortunately Tommy has it backwards and the strong yen is costing me vast amounts of money these days... The yen is way over valued, it will correct in time.