ogaki

Are you saying that for the same $120K/year a family would be better off in Tokyo than in Ogaki (or Austin)?

A more successful consultant in Ogaki does 90% of his prospecting over Skype.

My local coffee shop in Ogaki will sell you 11 200 yen vouchers (conveniently equal to one cup of coffee) for 2,000 yen.

There are two in Ogaki that I'd happily spend $1k on, but I'd worry that it would change my relationship with the owners.

I was a monthly customer of one, and can assure you that yen can leave Ogaki and show on a Bank of America bank statement within 45 minutes.

We live in Tokyo, as opposed to Ogaki, because a) my wife did not enjoy living in Ogaki due to social isolation and b) we recently greeted a daughter in October and were worried about the sociocultural implications of her growing up in Ogaki.

Facebook.jp has a suspiciously high number of attractive young ladies in Ogaki (as in, literally, more than the number of 18 to 22 year old young ladies in Ogaki) who send friend requests for, I assume, the purpose of developing marks for scams.

Also, most of the information coming in was in dollars, English, and either PST or GMT -- all three of which would get a look of disapproval from the Ogaki tax office -- so there's extensive use of historical lookup tables to massage the data to meet requirements without having to pay a bilingual bookkeeper to manually process everything.

An hour of investigation with a totally different part of the Ministry of Justice later, Town Hall refused to register a 戸籍 with Latin characters, and was actually able to produce an authoritative Least Frequently Asked Questions At Ogaki City Hall internal guidelines document on what to do in the event of international marriages.

Back on those halycon days where they'd actually let me leave the office before 11:30 PM, my salaryman schedule was hitting the last subway at approximately 12:05 AM to hit the last train at 12:30 AM, which got me into Ogaki at 1:05 AM and to my apartment at 1:30 AM.

Just a guess, but the "5x" increase is probably also due to low prices in Ogaki.

You should only register him under the exact name printed on his passport." (This is official policy, but many local government authorities ignore it, including half of the clerks at Ogaki.

Bootstrapped businesses can, of course, pay for an apartment in the Mission and exceed a Google PM's salary in Mountain View, but those are much harder bars to hit than "beats the snot out of any job available in Ogaki."

My favorite part about the coworking movement in Japan -- and I don't get much exposure to it since it hasn't arrived in force in Ogaki yet -- is that it provides a community and social reinforcement which says "Just because you're not a salaryman doesn't mean you're a homeless vagabond!" to participants.

Figuring this out was not exactly trivial for me, and absolutely mystified the local clerks in Ogaki.

But fine, let's consider just Ruriko's family: they are mostly in Ogaki, not in Tokyo.

Ogaki has neither Internet cafes nor taxis available at 3 AM in the morning.