Thread: Am I crazy??

Could stay here in Japan with my present employment until 2019 but we're voluntarily leaving next year.

It's a great place and may consider coming back again at some point for one more job assignment.

IMHO you seem like the sort who will love living in Japan.

Dick, look at the bright side. If it all goes sideways at least you can move in with your wife's family ...and at the very worst back to NZ.
ALL in all you might have made a good choice as nothing in life is guaranteed. Sounds as though the both of you are happier in Fukuoka.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Listen to her gut

Blimey - is this another one of Earl's remedies?

Originally Posted by Auroria

An old colleague of mine inherited enough to buy 3 London apartments at aged 18 in the 60's. The figure of 40k is in my memory. He was 18 and spent the next 12 years travelling and it was gone before 30. He kinda regrets it now being 60+ moaning that he could be a multi-millionaire now if only he bought the apartments.

Oh, the beauty of hindsight... I'm sure many of us have such stories.

It sounds like you and your wife are a strong team and this new adventure can only strengthen your relationship not to mention your horizons.

I hope everything goes well for you both.

^^^ + 1.

https://www.facebook.com/distantdystopia/

No brainer Dick
You're not gambling away your capital ,your putting it in bricks and mortar
Worst can happen you sell up and come home to plastering
You and your mrs seem solid
I wouldn't think twice
I'm sick of construction myself but I know fuckall else

^ True dat... Thanks Jim.

I can't imagine selling our investment properties - even if I/we hated living in Japan
or couldn't find enough students...

Unless the NZ property market took a nose dive - then we could pop back and buy my mum's gaff for the price of packet of crisps...

I've seen enough Japanese xhamster vids to know there'll be hidden cams involved.


Sharing is caring bro.

@dickie - I'd say go for it! I think you already know what's right, you're just here for affirmation & a second opinion, which is also good. You're still young enough to recover from a fall, if ever your ventures don't succeed.

If I ever extend my travels to Japan & you're already there, I'll ring you up in Fukuoka for an Asahi!

Re: the guy who inherited $$ at 18, ah.. the dilemma. To travel the world while young or to invest? I think it's good if you can do both!

Re: hindsight - I wonder how the guy (a professor, I think) who sold his founding shares in Apple felt when the company became big. Forgot the name & can't google it now.

Originally Posted by patsycat

How many of us "oldies" wish we could go back in time a couple of decades and gone for it? I know i do. And then it's too late.

That's not the attitude, pats - you're only 50-odd...

Go forth and lubricate thy self with sushi young dick...

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

I ponder - in my great, soggy, mess of a brain, are we crazy to move there?

yes you are

but being crazy is a lot of fun,

https://www.facebook.com/maru.japan/

Thanks for the link mate.. Arigato!

Originally Posted by david44

For what it 's worth follow your heart.
I've only been to Japan once loved it but as a lover of Rugby sailing wine walking and sheep the long white cloud somewhere south of Picton and the further from the throng the more the sheep and cheaper the living.
Each to their own.
For miserable melanalcocholic celts we expect rain doom and gloom that is why I feel so at home here.

Keep in touch here you are one the best newcomers with a refreshing positivity and honesty and hope you'll not be a stranger

Post up some pix of Fukuoka please when you can.

yes agree david. i find dick an ok bloke too. obviously his humour is missed,missunderstood, by a few that cant read .. but hey this is the internet..

and dick you're doing well lad. be lucky mate.

^ Thanks Lob, and happy Friday to you and your cuzzie Bro's... (Kiwi slang means to your family)..

haters gotta hate and all that jazz... reminds me of a tune... can I? should I?

peace and love and rainbows and moonbeams...

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Thanks for the link mate.. Arigato!

Fuck yeah! ^ I saw that mate... Sexy Samurai....

Oh, I'm married...

They're a bunch of fukkin freaks those Japs. You'll blend right in there Dicky.

Theres a new tv series started called Joanna Lumleys Japan. It should be on pirate bay.

Here it is, theres 3 episodes.
http://thepiratebay.org/search/joann...ys+japan/0/0/0

I watched the second one the other night about Tokyo. A third or 2 thirds of men are single. Shows you a load of grown men following a girl band waving glow in the dark probes. Fukkin weirdoes

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Oh, I'm married...

Tell ya what mate ... Every time I take the train for a day trip I notice the further I get away from Yokosuka the better looking the women get ...

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Oh, I'm married...

How about your wife ...she is better from surgery now?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

They're a bunch of fukkin freaks those Japs. You'll blend right in there Dicky.

Cheers mate, that's the plan...

Although I think you will find that weird streak, is confined to small sects/cliques of society (unfortunately)... mainly in the hip/trendy areas (Tokyo)...

Fukuoka is very conservative... there is a small red-light area, I forgot the name... her bros took me there after my wedding (I shit you not)...

Yes, thank you Cherry.. she's almost back to 'normal'...