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isn’t the idea of digital nomadding to go to countries with low cost-of-living
Japan has low cost of living
Japan has low cost of living
Only in the rural areas where people struggle to get jobs. Where the jobs are, in the cities, cost is extremely high. If you’re a digital nomad then you can use your money from other sources to live cheaply in the Japanese countryside.
CoL in Japanese cities is low for someone on a western salary (which is what we’re talking about here)
https://livingcost.org/cost/new-york/tokyo
Monthly CoL 1-person: US$1363 Tokyo vs. $4030 NYC
But my company isn’t in Japan, so coordinating teams meetings would be awful.
The ideal here is that my company is so far removed in timezones that no one can bother meeting with me, and I get a ton of work and tourism done.
Are you hiring?
Goddamn, they couldn’t have introduced this before I became disabled?
I wonder how hard it would be to get a place to live for only 6-months. Is a 6month lease a common thing in Japan?