Hi Joe_, welcome.Joe_ wrote: ↑October 17th, 2021, 1:55 pmGreetings. I'm fresh out of the military. I spent two years in Japan, one in Korea, and one in Turkey. The two years in Japan were the best time of my life. I'm back in the USA now.
It has been a big struggle to get back on my feet and find a meaningful job, but I am finally on track again. If things had been different, maybe I would have stayed in the military longer and would have had the chance to go to Japan again. It was causing me too much heartache so it was time to get out.
I wish I had been born Japanese instead of American. Japan has a much better society.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more about Japan being a great country.
I'm not sure I'd actually have wanted to have been born there, since my Japanese friends (mostly guys from college days) pretty much all talked about feeling a sort of palpable sense of peer pressure and stress on them at all times growing up there. However, they still all thought it was a great country compared with the USA, even though they said they felt freer here, and they all got rid of their American low-end hotrods and girlfriends and went back there anyway.
I don't personally think all American women are quite as bad as most guys these days seem to (LOL), but I agree this country's down the tubes to the point I really don't see it turning around, and I want to get out too before the Iron Curtain falls over this woke !@#$hole.
I am still looking up the theoretic best places to go for dual citizenship (which Japan does not allow, probably wisely from their POV), but Japan is still on the top of the list of best countries. I still have this feeling of guilt about not wanting to impose on them, but the harsh reality is that they've already opened themselves up to major foreign immigration over the past few years, and there's been all kinds of foreigners in there making trouble. So for those of us who would actually be gentlemanly in public, not be a burden on them financially or go around bitching about how "Japan is rayciss'", learn how to speak at least decent Japanese, etc, it's an interesting option.