Talking about living until retirement, not a few years.
I'm a young adult and I've been intensely studying Japanese and I've always known the things stated below, but now I can't kick them out of my brain and been kinda losing my motivation.
*Why do we choose Japan over others while the situation doesn't seem good at all?*
Japan's cons in my perspective:
1- People are obviously not sincere and real. Always a mask and unreal emotions. I've seen lots of 10+ yr people living in Japan with 0 local friend and no social life at all. Only wife/husband.
2- They do discriminate. I'm kinda sensitive and I could never tolerate someone not renting me a house, etc. just because I am a 外国人. Someone choosing to stand on foot than sitting next to me also would make me feel bad (this is discussed many times, some people say its fake while some say it happens a lot.)
3- Economy is going downwards.
4- Things are not getting positive but really negative for foreigners, politically and socially, compared to previous years (people getting 1 year visa after 3-5, new n5 requirement for lang. school, etc.)
5- Working culture. Doesn't matter if you are a salaryman or a trampoline park employee you need to be always smiling and being polite no matter what, doesn't matter if the customer is wrong or ass.
6- Tense rules. One woman employee was criticized by her boss just because of eating something as breakfast while taking the train, if y'all remember. She was reported to the company by someone in the train (she bad a badge). Can't even eat a damn onigiri at 7 am?
While in Taiwan, etc.
1- They actually like foreigners and treat them normal? In China, too?
2- Economy, politics, visa situations, social norms etc. seem to be more stable compared to Japan.
3- You can always get local friends, many people are accepting and usually like to socialize with foreigners.
4- Tense, unwritten rules don't exist as in Japan.
So I might be wrong so if you see something you don't agree or false please let me know, respectfully. Thank you for your time.
by SupWeiWei