cost of living for korea/japan

[GeomaxxJihadist]

things such as whats living wage and thriving wage

 

[Rance]

This website is a reliable CoL reference: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

I will give you my opinion Tokyo, then you can adjust it per city using Numbeo. All numbers are yen per month.

• ￥400,000 - The minimum to live an enjoyable life. Anything less than this will be budgeting nightmare, never going out, eating instant noodles all the time, etc. With 400k you can easily go out on the weekends and have a couple drinks, but you won't be able to go to fancy restaurants, travel far, or anything crazy. It's a good setup if you're 20 years old and love roughing it for the adventure. If you're older and/or have refined tastes you'll be in trouble
  
  
• ￥600,000 - About here is where you can start acting like a salaryman in terms of how you use your wallet. You can get an apartment that's not super cramped, eat out several times per week, travel occasionally, etc. It's the everyday comfort threshold.
  
  
• ￥1,000,000 - Mild luxury threshold. If you earn at least this much you can start to spend your money in "stupid" ways like going to overpriced nightclubs, kyabakura, buy new clothes all the time, etc. You can also live in the middle of a downtown area.

 

[QuantativeAnalyticalBS]

This website is a reliable CoL reference: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

I will give you my opinion Tokyo, then you can adjust it per city using Numbeo. All numbers are yen per month.

• ￥400,000 - The minimum to live an enjoyable life. Anything less than this will be budgeting nightmare, never going out, eating instant noodles all the time, etc. With 400k you can easily go out on the weekends and have a couple drinks, but you won't be able to go to fancy restaurants, travel far, or anything crazy. It's a good setup if you're 20 years old and love roughing it for the adventure. If you're older and/or have refined tastes you'll be in trouble
  
  
• ￥600,000 - About here is where you can start acting like a salaryman in terms of how you use your wallet. You can get an apartment that's not super cramped, eat out several times per week, travel occasionally, etc. It's the everyday comfort threshold.
  
  
• ￥1,000,000 - Mild luxury threshold. If you earn at least this much you can start to spend your money in "stupid" ways like going to overpriced nightclubs, kyabakura, buy new clothes all the time, etc. You can also live in the middle of a downtown area.

Why is Japan so expensive, am i missing something?

 

[Rance]

Why is Japan so expensive, am i missing something?

Tokyo is the largest city in the world and also quite dense. My numbers are assuming you're living near the downtown areas. If you compare Tokyo to NYC or London it is rather cheap.

I quoted ￥1,000,000 per month (about $75,000 USD per year) as "fuck you money". $75,000 in New York wouldn't be anything close to "spend stupid", you'd be struggling pretty hard.

 

[BiggChungus]

I respect rance's advice but I disagree with this. tokyo is probably the cheapest developed city in the world. whatever your budget is in your own country, I would say cut it by 30% or more. not even clubs are really that expensive. obviously once you start factoring in a lifestyle where you are buying arbitrarily expensive drinks for other women, the sky is the limit in terms of how much money you can waste. outside of apartment costs, like, a thousand dollars, really, all spending is discretionary as far as I see it. if you plan on targeting high maintenance women, yeah, that can get expensive. but thats more dependant on the woman herself than thecity.

 

[EEmaxxer]

This website is a reliable CoL reference: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

I will give you my opinion Tokyo, then you can adjust it per city using Numbeo. All numbers are yen per month.

• ￥400,000 - The minimum to live an enjoyable life. Anything less than this will be budgeting nightmare, never going out, eating instant noodles all the time, etc. With 400k you can easily go out on the weekends and have a couple drinks, but you won't be able to go to fancy restaurants, travel far, or anything crazy. It's a good setup if you're 20 years old and love roughing it for the adventure. If you're older and/or have refined tastes you'll be in trouble
  
  
• ￥600,000 - About here is where you can start acting like a salaryman in terms of how you use your wallet. You can get an apartment that's not super cramped, eat out several times per week, travel occasionally, etc. It's the everyday comfort threshold.
  
  
• ￥1,000,000 - Mild luxury threshold. If you earn at least this much you can start to spend your money in "stupid" ways like going to overpriced nightclubs, kyabakura, buy new clothes all the time, etc. You can also live in the middle of a downtown area.

Woww, these numbers are the same benchmark for the capital cities for the more developed CE/EE countries. Sounds like a good time to go to Japan.

 

[14passport]

I respect rance's advice but I disagree with this. tokyo is probably the cheapest developed city in the world. whatever your budget is in your own country, I would say cut it by 30% or more. not even clubs are really that expensive. obviously once you start factoring in a lifestyle where you are buying arbitrarily expensive drinks for other women, the sky is the limit in terms of how much money you can waste. outside of apartment costs, like, a thousand dollars, really, all spending is discretionary as far as I see it. if you plan on targeting high maintenance women, yeah, that can get expensive. but thats more dependant on the woman herself than thecity.

same thoughts

tokyo can be a lot cheaper than that, obviously will depend on your lifestyle but from what ive seen with a bit more than 1k$/month you can get your own studio a bit far from the center, and eat out everyday

drinks and restaurants are as expensive as you want it to be but there's plenty of very cheap choices

 

[14passport]

Woww, these numbers are the same benchmark for the capital cities for the more developed CE/EE countries. Sounds like a good time to go to Japan.

Japan is very cheap now with the weak yen and close to 0 inflation, only thing i would say the offer of short term rentals is shit