I’ve just returned from a two week research trip to Okayama prefecture. The purpose of my trip was to scout the area to find a suitable place to call home. If all goes as planned, I will enjoy my retirement years there, leaving America and saying goodbye to the San Francisco Bay Area after four decades.
Those two weeks dramatically changed my former thinking about the affordability of real estate in Japan. Sky-high prices for a cramped rabbit hutch in Tokyo may still be a thing, but once you leave the big city nothing could be further from the truth!