Comment on Trailer love, trailer life

Beacon@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well there’s Johnson Town in Saitama.

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  • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That doesn’t look bad.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It looks like America, so ehhhh

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s old American military officer housing, rented out as low income housing for several decades, then after it accidentally lasted long enough to appeal to locals, it was refurbed into a kitschy/artsy commercial area to indulge in Americana through a a Japanese lens.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not a single mcmansion in sight! Not even enough yard to have a ride on mower??? Horrors!

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  • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is there a sign saying "blue corn" in English there?

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    • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      https://www.japan-experience.com/all-about-japan/saitama/attractions-excursions/johnson-town

      It was an old US airbase town

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  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looks like an American suburb but without yard space.

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    • suitmangray@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So like a normal suburb from before 1920…

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• farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We do, but most of them have something within cycling distance that isn’t on an 70+ kph road with maniacs (and the closer to civilization, they have public transit).

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s something that most people would be surprised to learn about Japan?

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    • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s actually rather difficult to give one answer to, even if narrowed to one country/culture as the target audience.

      For North America: central heat/air is not a thing here outside of commercial applications. A handful of private individuals do it, but it ends up costing a ton both directly (the unit/maintenance) and indirectly (more materials, ductwork, insulation, etc. that are less common and more expensive here). We just had building laws revised this year to require slightly higher building codes for energy efficiency and insulation, but it’s still well below the standard of other places. It’s somewhat a cost issue (Japanese houses depreciate to nothing after 20 years in most cases and land value only goes up in a handful of areas, so there’s additional pressure not to care a ton), and also a reaction to “sick home syndrome” that came from bad plastics/materials offgassing things like formaldehyde in the ‘80s in more tightly-closed homes. Here, homes that breathe well are still considered better.

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It still boggles my mind people in Japan buy new when it comes to housing. I guess if they are all cheaply built that makes sense.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s mostly crappy areas. Outside the urban centers, they refuse to invest in infrastructure. So everyone flees to the city center, which produces slums, and then everything except the high income areas kinda suck.

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  • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have a lot of good infrastructure in my village and I’m pretty rural (depending upon how big ‘urban center’ is in your definition, I’m between 20 and 45 minutes away by train).

    A lot of the countryside that is depopulating is quite ugly, but there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem to be sure. I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises. My area has campaigns that use our tax money to pay people to move here as well as subsidizing preschool and kindergarten.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners

      The national government has plenty of money. And investing in these communities would generate permanent employment, such that more young people would live there.

      But the politics of the county resists this kind of investment, because it isn’t immediately profitable.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises.

      i don’t see how that would reduce costs

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      • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Re-populating smaller towns would give them more tax income to put money back into infrastructure and other programs. Having people move out of the megalopolises helps reduce demand on things like childcare and lower housing costs as demand cools.

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    • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shit, pay me and I’ll emigrate to Japan in a heartbeat.

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