good economy = people have higher wages = food & shit being overpriced = bad for tourism. the market will always be priced to extract maximum profit. well.. technically canada has hellish prices... and it's exactly because the people who can afford to live in toronto / vancouver make $100k cad to afford a home mortgage of $1 million (that you will finish paying off in 40 years). not a good economy by any metric, but my metric of a "good economy" is based on how much money people make (more like.. need to make to afford to live in an area). i think saying good economy = people have higher wages is probably a bad comparison. replace "good economy" with "cost of living". yes i am learning jp but i am canadian and so my dollar would be pretty mid in jp.
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