>>714302613>goods are cheaperTell me you're just a tourist without telling me. The goods are cheaper relative to your western salary. The local salaries are in the toilet because of the constant out of control spending and rising debt. Locals are pissed that tourists are visiting their country because the high value of foreign currencies and what foreigners can throw around is pricing out locals from going to things like izakayas or going on vacations to different prefectures because they can't afford basic hotels now since said hotels are trying to court foreigners who can blow tens of thousands of yen like it's nothing because it isn't. You can literally see this in the rising prices of video games end electronics from Japanese stores getting higher and higher because of foreigners going to Japan to buy them or import them.
Japanese people live fairly poorly compared to western standards with regards to their housing and salaries, you're just blindsided by your love for Japan that you're not willing to look at the bad parts of living there.
Go look at how terrible their housing situation is. Unless you live in rural prefectures your house is going to be absurdly small with the kitchen and laundry room likely being the same room. You will also be paying close to NYC rent prices if you go to even the lower tier cities while living paycheck to paycheck unless you are fairly high in a corporate structure.
If you do live in a rural prefecture enjoy the horrendously humid summers and bone-chilling winters because Japanese homes are some of the worst for insulation.
Go look at how no one wants to live in the sticks because there's virtually no opportunities for work unless you want to be a farmer for the rest of your life.
Yes, you get better social programs and it's safer, but literally every other aspect of your life is objectively worse compared to living in basically any western country.