$265 Rent? You might be wondering why rent is so cheap here. I can take you around our city of Otaru and show you literally hundreds of empty houses. The entire country now has more than 11,000,000 empty apartments and houses. The elderly population is dying off or going into:homes for the elderly or living with family now. The younger generation neither has the money nor the desire to live in their parent`s homes, even though some are really beautiful if fixed up. It is possible in southern Japan to buy a very large, what was once considered an upper middle class home, with land, for around $20,000 or less.That same house was probably around $150-200,000 when purchased.
When we first started working in
southern Japan in the city of Numazu, south of Tokyo, land was measured by 3 meters squared and sold for $1700 for that much land. The church was sitting on $255,000l worth of land and that was only about a quarter of an acre!. The country is expecting to diminish in population by about
one fourth of it`s current population by the year 2050, or 25 years from now. Young people do
not want to raise a family or have children; we are in an era of the the to "me" generation. They want nothing to do with any religion, anything that would cramp their "live now for me" style.
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$265 Rent? You might be wondering why rent is so cheap here. I can take you around our city of Otaru and show you literally hundreds of empty houses. The entire country now has more than 11,000,000 empty apartments and houses. The elderly population is dying off or going into:homes for the elderly or living with family now. The younger generation neither has the money nor the desire to live in their parent`s homes, even though some are really beautiful if fixed up. It is possible in southern Japan to buy a very large, what was once considered an upper middle class home, with land, for around $20,000 or less.That same house was probably around $150-200,000 when purchased.
When we first started working in
southern Japan in the city of Numazu, south of Tokyo, land was measured by 3 meters squared and sold for $1700 for that much land. The church was sitting on $255,000l worth of land and that was only about a quarter of an acre!. The country is expecting to diminish in population by about
one fourth of it`s current population by the year 2050, or 25 years from now. Young people do
not want to raise a family or have children; we are in an era of the the to "me" generation. They want nothing to do with any religion, anything that would cramp their "live now for me" style.
From a dear friend in Japan:
MAYBE!?! 😊