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Monocle: Top 25 Most Liveable Cities 2010 (pg. 4)
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| Schadenfreude |
seriously though lira, half of the women in fukuoka are hookers.
i have never in my life been accosted so much offering sex for money. It isn't that foreigners are hot to them, it is that foreigners making good money across asia tend to visit during "visa runs" due to its easy proximity from mainland asia without having to break the bank with flying.
i couldtake a cheap bus from seoul to pusan and an even cheaper ferry to nippon. Get the passport stamped...look at hookers and be back by nightfall with a fresh 6 month visa. |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Auckland? That just proves that these lists are bull. |
Yo yo yo representin'
Maori guy at the bus stop offered me weed about half an hour ago |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Scratchula
#5, Helsinki? Yeah, that's why there's such a huge suicide rate there.
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I'm willing to bet the suicide rates are much higher outside of Helsinki with the 6 months of darkness and all...
Still, Helsinki at #5 is a bit of a joke, this list has clearly been made by people who have never actually visited these cities. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
seriously though lira, half of the women in fukuoka are hookers. |
I've never been to Fukuoka. The cities I visited from Hiroshima northwards are: Hiroshima, Kyoto-Kobe-Osaka, a village near Kyoto, Nagoya, a ski resort in Nagano, Yokohama, Tokyo, Sendai.
And, actually, the amount of foreigners I saw in all these places was appallingly low. In Sendai, a kid even stalked me for whatever reason. |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by FuzzQi
Yo yo yo representin' |
Wellington is much nicer than Auckland in my opinion, a lot smaller but a little bit more grown-up in terms of culture, but meh, I have just been a tourist there, stealing your snow, screaming at Weta's hiding in the hotel shower curtain... |
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| FuzzQi |
Auckland is pretty
But I'm sick of it. 10 years.
As soon as my degree is over I'm going to Australia. |
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| Schadenfreude |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I've never been to Fukuoka. The cities I visited from Hiroshima northwards are: Hiroshima, Kyoto-Kobe-Osaka, a village near Kyoto, Nagoya, a ski resort in Nagano, Yokohama, Tokyo, Sendai.
And, actually, the amount of foreigners I saw in all these places was appallingly low. In Sendai, a kid even stalked me for whatever reason. |
much of asia has small expat communities....immigration is not really a full scale thing due to the major 2 jobs for foreigners being teaching and banking. Other than that there really is no reason for someone from a developed country to move there.
edit:forgot the military in south korea....but even then the majority of south koreans want americans out of there.
fukuoka is really really nice though...i got to be there during the cherry blossom season...still a nice town does not change the fact that almost all women sell rotten sushi to sailors;p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
much of asia has small expat communities....immigration is not really a full scale thing due to the major 2 jobs for foreigners being teaching and banking. Other than that there really is no reason for someone from a developed country to move there. |
Yeah but I figured I'd find more people from underdeveloped countries there. I know the three greatest foreign populations in Japan can blend quite easily (The Chinese, Koreans, and Brazilians), but all foreigners combined are less than 1.5% - which is way lower than the 8% of foreigners inhabiting the UK, 12% in the US, 19% in Canada, and a whooping 23% in Aussieland. There are even more Japanese-blooded Brazilians here (a so-called underdeveloped country) than foreigners in all of Japan! |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Yeah but I figured I'd find more people from underdeveloped countries there. I know the three greatest foreign populations in Japan can blend quite easily (The Chinese, Koreans, and Brazilians), but all foreigners combined are less than 1.5% - which is way lower than the 8% of foreigners inhabiting the UK, 12% in the US, 19% in Canada, and a whooping 23% in Aussieland. There are even more Japanese-blooded Brazilians here (a so-called underdeveloped country) than foreigners in all of Japan! |
What's the link between Brazil and Japan? Brazil has the highest population of nihonjin outside of Japan.
There's usually a reason for mass-scale immigration to a certain country. The only obvious one I can think of is World War II, and even then, why to Brazil in particular? |
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| Schadenfreude |
| the economic growth that brazil is experiencing makes it far from an underdeveloped country.....sudan maybe:p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
What's the link between Brazil and Japan? Brazil has the highest population of nihonjin outside of Japan.
There's usually a reason for mass-scale immigration to a certain country. The only obvious one I can think of is World War II, and even then, why to Brazil in particular? |
It's an interesting history.
It goes without saying that America is the closest "Western" continent to Asia, so you'd imagine Asians would immigrate to the American continent rather than to Europe. And, you'd also expect them to go to the richer countries first. Well, they did... until the American government blocked their entrance because they were afraid the Yellow Peril was "taking over". They weren't Europeans so it was naturally a bad thing.
Luckily, around the same time, Brazil had just freed their slaves, and we needed workers. Badly. And Japan needed to send their emigrants some place else. Our governments made an agreement and, next thing you know, ships full of nihonjins landed in Santos and they spread quickly to many different regions. It'd be unfair to say they didn't have to deal with racism and bigotry here either - our government also limited the entrance of "inferior races" after a while, and they were very prejudiced against until quite recently. There was even a mini-civil war after WWII because of that, which ultimately led to even more restrictions.
Now, the funny thing about it is that they didn't plan to stay here. Their goal was to come to Brazil, make money, and then return to their motherland, reason why the first waves of immigrants gave their children two sets of names: a Portuguese first name (so they could get along with the people here) and a Japanese second name (which would be useful once they got back to Japan). Things didn't really go according to planned and most of them never left... though that habit stuck: I've got tons of friends that have become completely acculturated, can't put a sentence together in Nihongo, and yet have a Japanese 2nd name.
| quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
the economic growth that brazil is experiencing makes it far from an underdeveloped country.....sudan maybe:p |
Still, it ain't no Canada :p |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
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I agree |
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