For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings

lordnacho · on Dec 11, 2018

Weirdly this article brought to mind a shop I'd walked past a few times:

neka · on Dec 11, 2018

Finchley?

lordnacho · on Dec 11, 2018

Marylebone

excalibur · on Dec 10, 2018

That's a pretty bold claim in light of the disconnect between Japan's housing market and those in the west, highlighted in a recent thread:

admax88q · on Dec 10, 2018

The article is about Tokyo specifically not Japan as a whole.

Japan's population is decreasing but Tokyo specifically is as people migrate to the big cities increasing.

isostatic · on Dec 11, 2018

Increasing to the point htat Japan is paying people to leave Tokyo and move elsewhere

PunchTornado · on Dec 11, 2018

That's weird because the countryside is amazing compared to the ugliness of Tokyo (speaking as a tourist)

isostatic · on Dec 11, 2018

One global trend is urbanisation. Partly this is because of jobs, but it's also because of socialisation

I may think that living in a city is horrible, but it seems that even if you take away work people still choose to live in high density areas.