> japan > quality of life tell me you've never actually been to japan without telling me you've never been to japan... i lived on okinawa for around 2 years, and it's a fucking shithole. people living in shacks made from sheet metal and plastic foil, or in shipping containers. groceries where the moment you open the packaging, you realize that half of it is spoiled. public transport that regularly has delays  of several hours. trash everywhere, including high piles of rusted cars, fridges and washing machines just left on the side of the road. and that's not even mentioning the gang violence you see if you're stupid enough to cross through the bad parts of town. i've seen middle schoolers beat each other up with baseball bats right in front of a police box, "voluntary police" block streets so the local yakuzas didn't have to wait for traffic lights, and repeatedly had to explain that i'm not american (despite being a white guy with a crew cut...) at knifepoint, whenever the marines raped another kid and the jap militias wanted to get back at them. which happened several times in those two years, btw. tl;dr: japan is a shithole the moment you leave the tourist parts of the countries.
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