My husband (22 m) and I (22f) are wanting to escape the us as we don’t know if we can see a future here. When thinking of other countries to live in for a slow and peaceful life Japan quickly came up. We have joked about moving there for a while now before becoming more serious about it more recently. We’ve been looking at Akaya in the countryside online, and I’d really love to have a large garden. I know that the house will need renovations and have to be brought up to code, etc. but the set back that we’re having is looking into jobs. I have a trade license, but don’t want to be in the industry for much longer, I also plan to get a psychology or accounting degree. My husband is in school for nursing, but has 2 years before is clinicals are completed. We know that we won’t be able to move for a year or so at very least to save up some money for the move. But would there be any jobs that we would be qualified for with these degrees, or without degrees? Everything I’ve researched says hardly anything transfers from us to Japan in these industries. Should we give up, get different degrees, try somewhere else? This is just one of my main concerns atm, I don’t want to get my hopes too high before they come crashing down. TIA.
Edit to add;
Of course we both know that we have to learn at least N2-N1 level Japanese, we started working on it as soon as we started seriously looking into moving. We know it’ll take awhile but we’ve started integrating it in with our daily conversations to try to help the process.
We also do no plan to get a mortgage, we want to pay cash. That’s why we were looking at Akaya, wanting to buy and renovate before moving. And yes we know that we would have to have someone in country deal with the proceedings. There are companies for that though.
by Nautilee