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Old Feb 24, 2017 | 9:19 pm
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Originally Posted by evergrn
This is why it's so hard to justify moving back to Jpn, as much as I want to live there. Pay's so low compared to the US (and probably longer hours there).
I have lived here 26 years and those numbers are way off what you make in a reasonable firm in the big cities. Way way off. Averages are fairly useless for judging achievable salaries.

Add in job stability, healthcare, general conditions associated with life and Japan, or at least Tokyo stands head and shoulders above most US options these days. I go home at 6pm every day too.

Now if we could just get rid of the earthquakes, but that is our Trump to bear
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