• And009
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    18 days ago

    That an average situation? perhaps you were financially better off than the rest

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      18 days ago

      I was better off, but this was an average government subsidized day care, a neighborhood Hoikuen (保育園). Everything else was just normal stuff. In fact, we didn’t qualify for the few thousand from the city office because we were ex-pats. Medical is free for Japanese. So where are the costs?

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        17 days ago

        You can thank their housing market