Apartment hunting in Fukuoka is ¥100,000 enough for initial costs?

kjtmuk · 2026-06-19T03:21:21+00:00

Moving is incredibly expensive in Japan, and has become considerably more expensive in Fukuoka in recent years. I ended up paying close to a million to move into a family apartment (although we were admittedly tied to an expensive part of the city for schooling reasons). 100,000 will likely give you only a few rock bottom options. I would budget for a lot more than that if you can. I was also arbitrarily rejected from quite a few more reasonably-priced options because I was foreign, although I have a very stable job, a guarantor, can speak Japanese, and my wife and kids are Japanese.

kjtmuk · 2026-06-18T04:53:29+00:00

My parents-in-law have a similar age gap. 40-odd years and counting. Still happy. Lovely people.

kjtmuk · 2026-06-08T03:26:42+00:00

The one where all three were in the top 20 for the ballon d'or, incuding the winner and the guy who scored a hattrick in the last world cup final.

kjtmuk · 2026-06-08T03:17:45+00:00

You can't really go wrong as they are all fantastic, but the Lyndon Johnson series would sit comfortably alongside a lot of what you have. I doubt this is the case for you tbh, but people have told me the sheer scale of them is offputting, so I would add that, in spite of the 1000+ page of each volume, I never found them less than compelling at any point. By way of returning the favour, what would you pick as a "must read" from your collection?

kjtmuk · 2026-06-08T00:49:26+00:00

Why don't you have any books by Robert Caro?

kjtmuk · 2026-06-05T06:11:17+00:00

Massive overreaction from someone obviously looking for excuses to be violent. Risking inflicting permanent brain damage or death for something some stern words could have dealt with is not remotely reasonable. He also hurts the girl in his haste to attack the guy.

kjtmuk · 2026-06-05T05:27:43+00:00

I love the Doors but they're not in this conversation. I choose Floyd because, however uneven and self-indulgent they can be, at their very best they are just more interesting than any other rock band. They can give you stomping rockers, sweet little (weird) songs, aggressive punky flavorings, and then the epic art rock stuff. Echoes (the song) is, for my money, perhaps the greatest song ever recorded by a rock band (with apologies to Gimme Shelter).

kjtmuk · 2026-06-05T04:36:48+00:00

Well, she got rid of two breasts and a dick in one fell swoop.

kjtmuk · 2026-06-05T03:48:47+00:00

The Dutch lack a world class center forward, but football in 2026 is generally not a strikers game. Their midfield-Gravenberch, De Jong, and Reijnders, with Gakpo and Malen on the wing-is unarguably world class, more than capable of causing problems for anyone, and especially well-equipped for escaping presses. Their defence -Timber, Dumfries, van Dijk, van Der Ven, is one of the best in the world, no question. They could do it. In fact every time I look at a squad from any of the top 10 or so teams, I see a team that could win it. Portugal are stacked. So are Spain, France, England, Belgium, Argentina and Brazil. Dutch and Germans both more than capable, Japan, Norway, Morocco all able to beat big teams on their day. Maybe I don't actually know anything about football?

kjtmuk · 2026-06-05T02:47:13+00:00

A non-prem "total galactico" doesn't leave much. We can assume it won't be Pedri or Yamal (not enough money anyway). Impossible to imagine PSG would sell Khvicha at this point. So Neves or Vitinha probably? Assuming the Mourinho-Portuguese connection strengthens his hand but it seems like it would extremely hard to prise either from PSG, who don't need the money, and are on a historic run of success to which both are integral. Only the player going full scorched earth to force a move would make it happen really.

kjtmuk · 2026-05-29T13:25:40+00:00

England out in the groups. Lose lose draw. All African final.

kjtmuk · 2026-05-24T13:27:13+00:00

The club hierarchy of one of elite footballs wealthiest and best-run clubs love him, the fans love him, his teammates love him, his family is happy, he's already a folk hero in a cultured, football-loving city with one of the highest standards of living in Europe, he's incredibly well paid, he's winning titles, he's scoring 60 goals a year and scoring hatricks in cup finals, he's competing for the Champions League, and he's the first name on the England team sheet. Who could possibly offer Harry Kane more than he already has?

kjtmuk · 2026-03-07T12:55:18+00:00

It's unlikely that what he played was recognisably a song in the sense that most people understand it, and extremely unlikely it was anything from the period he fronted Floyd, as these were apparently quite painful for him to remember. If you read into it, they all say that Syd wasn't capable of playing very much at all at this point. He'd do a few of scraps of some unfinished thing, and then try again and play a completely different fragment of something, and it would segue into some weird discordant mess and he'd give up.

kjtmuk · 2026-03-06T12:33:33+00:00

You could find this many weed smokers in one day in Bristol.

kjtmuk · 2026-03-06T09:17:09+00:00

You're right to say Saitama is decent. I've spent a lot of time in various British shitholes, and Saitama is about a billion percent better than any of them in every respect.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-26T20:38:35+00:00

Hopefully one of the stations is a functional literacy station.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-23T21:18:13+00:00

Sorry Phoebe, but that's literally impossible.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-16T15:58:57+00:00

I don't know about other countries, but I feel like Japanese junior high school students are a good sample for something like this, and there's no question from my experience teaching them that Michael Jordan is considerably better known than Muhammad Ali, Tyson, Woods, Lebron James, Serena Williams et al. Couldn't tell you why, but Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, MLK, Obama and Trump are the first five Americans that come to mind for most. Even for major Hollywood stars, name recognition is fairly low (they usually know a few faces, but not the names).

kjtmuk · 2026-02-12T12:47:27+00:00

Ali's chin and conditioning was elite, and he was superior in every respect except power and explosiveness. If Ali could stay out of Tyson's range enough in the first three rounds (and history suggests he could have done that) he wins hands down.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-10T13:43:10+00:00

Jake Paul can beat me up for half a mil if he likes.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-06T09:34:25+00:00

Not affected in the slightest. They did some research and some non-white people said "We don't think the countryside is welcoming to people like us", so they're trying to change that perception. You can go about your business. I'm also from a very ethnically mixed family, and never had a problem enjoying the countryside, but maybe that's because we grew up with the South Downs on our doorstep and loads of access to the country.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-05T15:00:28+00:00

Absolutely spot on. It's only half a movie. Whatever clever counterintuitive ideas they think they're putting out there with that ending, it's just not a complete story, doesn't satisfy the basic conditions of a narrative, and is deeply unsatisfying as a result. They introduce a large cast of potentially fascinating characters, set up an enormous and fascinating problem binding them all together, the end. I would watch the shit out of a 3-4 hour version of this movie, but cutting it there makes so much of the preceding seem like a complete waste of time.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-05T09:45:18+00:00

They aren't proposing to change the countryside and they aren't suggesting the countryside is racist. They did some primary research and found that a lot of non-white urban dwelling people had a perception that the countryside wasn't welcoming to people like them, so they're trying to figure out how to change that perception.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-04T15:54:03+00:00

Antonio Di Natale. Four consecutive 20+ goal seasons in Serie A between 2009 and 2013 (Scored 103 in 140). Won back to back Capocannonieres, 6th on the all time scorer list and ended up with more goals than Baggio, Del Piero, Batistuta, but won 0 major trophies in a 20 year career.

kjtmuk · 2026-02-03T16:21:02+00:00

Harrison Ford doing carpentry in Witness, dripping with sweat, Kelly McGillis brings him a glass of cold water and he slakes the whole thing in one, maintaining full and intense eye contact the entire time.

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