Teaching English in Japan

2K a month? I dont know what one can do with that in a country like japan. Eat ramen the whole time? pimp yourself? :-D

Honestly, i was expecting something above the 30K a year mark.

Anyways, theres the hope that us (spanish) may get a better deal

 

Well you did put per year in your post.

Don't feel bad, I get paid less than that and work 8 - 6:30 or 7 M - F and 8 - 1 Sat.

 

Just to know funkbuddy, whats your job?

 

Japan isn't as expensive as you may think you know. Living here is probably easier than the UK unless you live in Tokyo that is. When I wenthome last year I thought everything was way over priced.

Yakumo

PS I'm on 2330 US dollars a month or in "real money" 1350 pounds which isn't really that bad. My apartment which is only two years old and a good size is 630 USD / 362 pounds per month including car park spaces (2) so as you can see there's quite a lot left for saving, food, wasteful spending and so on.

 

For what im hearing from the Uk, everything is better outside. No ofense, but your countrys actual situation is a product of rampant and out of control speculation. I heard that a lot of british are leaving the country (mainly to spain and australia) becos of the real state prices.

Anyways, how big is your place?

 

I work in the family business selling janitorial supplies and I'm on salary. I also work on top of those hours (when needed) in the other business, which is commercial office cleaning. :angry Needless to say I should have never moved here because my old job was 35 - 40 hrs a week for the same money plus free food and cute teenage girls!

Yakumo -

That's cheap rent alright, a great deal IMO.

 

My place for Japan is a good size. Many Japanese apartments just have one room that leads to another by sliding a door but my place actually has a corridor. Here's a few pictures that I just took. These pictures make the place look smaller than it really is plus it's a little messy but it's Saturday morning so that's ok

The Entrance


The hallway. From here you can see where the rooms come off it.


The Bathroom complete with washing machine (in the UK this is normallyin the kitchen)


The Livingroom (Where most of my time is spent)



the closert is easilly long and wide enough to sleep in plus over 2.5 meters in height.



The Dinningroom and Kitchen


as you can see, the bed room leads of the dinning room.



The Bedroom. This is pretty small. Only 6 tatami mats in size but it does have a brand new airconditioner in there )


The house has two air conditioners. One in the living room above the PC next to the window and the other in the bedroom which is powerful enough to cool the dinning room and kitchen as well. As you can see the house has all wooden floors apart from the bedroom and bathroom, so it gets very hot in summer.

Yakumo

 

Not bad, not bad at all :smt023

In fact, most places in europe had become smaller than that (or at least thats some guys from spain told me) but not cheaper

Suddenly i want to go to japan, how expensive is the beef there? (by Kg)

 

Err, I have no idea how much beef is by kg. I just buy it Probably pretty much the same as anywhere I guess. It's not that expensive.

Yakumo

 

Cool, cuz everybody in the west complains about the price of the meat in japan

It appears its just an urban leyend

 

Bear in mind that most of the "mince" for sale in Japan is a mix of pork to beef (7:3), or something like that. Sometimes when I want good beef for making hamburgers, I buy the 100% stuff, which is more expensive of course. But not too bad...

Though when I had my taco party and I bought like 1.8kg of minced meat (pork/beef) it cost me like 3000 or 4000 yen. (!)

 

bloody hell ccovell, where do you go shopping? that's expensive !! Do you live in Tokyo or somewhere like that? Here the only expensive meat is Miazaki Chicken or Hokaido Beef. All the rest is pretty much standard. I normally get me meat from the butcher inside of Yume Town Itsumi Department store / supermarket. It's cheaper than the ready packed stuff you can buy in any super market and tastes better, too I mostly but Australian beef these days.

Yakumo

 

WUT??! PORK AND BEEF?! THATS AGAINST MY RELIGION!! :smt100

Of the Great Order of Beef Eaters :smt043

Anyways, i dont like pork, so I better get a good job there, cuz my diet is: 70% beef, 20% pizza, 10% Ice cream and Lays :happyhap:

australian beef? do they sell the kanguro one too? Al least they did in australia:smt045

 

Ha, I'll confirm that Tokyo is expensive, but you can still find some decent deals there if you look, Shimokitazawa was nice. If you do JET you'll be away from the center, so it does get cheaper as a trip to Sapporo proved to me.