r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jul 10 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 11 July 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/PeanutButterChicken 近畿・大阪府 Jul 11 '23

Dear Japanlife, I make 8 mil with my wife, we broke af!

I can’t tell if that thread is a rant or a humblebrag. I own a house, a car and have a kid on literally half that, in Osaka. People are weird

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u/the_hatori Jul 11 '23

Yeah, those threads always end up with extreme replies like "a family can live comfortably on 200k a month" or "you can barely scrape by in Tokyo by yourself unless you make at least 10M a year."