00:00Why so many foreigners move to Japan every year, but eventually leave for the same few reasons?
00:06First, the money starts running out faster than expected.
00:09Salaries in Japan have stayed relatively flat for almost 40 years.
00:14The yen has weakened, and cities like Tokyo are extremely expensive.
00:18Many foreigners eventually realize that saving money or building a long-term future there is much harder than they planned.
00:25Next, the social life.
00:27You can live in Japan for years, speak fluent Japanese, follow every social rule, and still somehow feel slightly outside
00:34the circle.
00:35People are polite, but politeness doesn't always mean closeness.
00:38And for many foreigners, that becomes the breaking point.
00:42They slowly realize they adapted to Japan completely, but Japan never really adapted to them.
00:47Not out of hate, but because Japanese society tends to stay very socially closed and homogeneous.
00:53That's why we're so FPGA's.
