Back In Japan!
May. 19th, 2025 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aibanokokuhaku Lol.
My husband and I were doing ok ish in the US, but couldn't afford a house or to save for retirement despite our combined salary scraping 6 digits. We decided also, months before Trump got re-elected that he'd probably win, so we moved back to Japan. Well, back for me anyway, it's his first time here.
We had to flip roles to make this happen. I'm working as a professor now, and my husband is at home with our son, though our son does daycare 20 hours per week to socialize with Japanese kids. My husband is job hunting, but nothing has come up as he doesn't know Japanese yet. So, he's mostly studying and helping with domestic duties. Although we didn't have enough savings for a down payment in the US, it is enough to move here and for a house down payment here. I don't have permanent residence yet, so it limits the loans and homes I can get a little, but there are some affordable houses in West Tokyo and Saitama we are looking at. We've been here since February and I already went to a concert (I saw Kep1er).
I know Arashi announced they will have one last tour, but I will likely not go. Though I might stop by Keikarou and see Aiba's mom again. Idk if I will go to another Kishidan gig again. Maybe if I get invited, but I think I wanna see artists live that I haven't seen yet, since I get less opportunities to go as a parent. I think I will restart this blog to practice translations again. Let me know what artists you want to read about.
I do plan to stay in Japan for life this time, so I will work toward PR and Japanese fluency even more.
My husband and I were doing ok ish in the US, but couldn't afford a house or to save for retirement despite our combined salary scraping 6 digits. We decided also, months before Trump got re-elected that he'd probably win, so we moved back to Japan. Well, back for me anyway, it's his first time here.
We had to flip roles to make this happen. I'm working as a professor now, and my husband is at home with our son, though our son does daycare 20 hours per week to socialize with Japanese kids. My husband is job hunting, but nothing has come up as he doesn't know Japanese yet. So, he's mostly studying and helping with domestic duties. Although we didn't have enough savings for a down payment in the US, it is enough to move here and for a house down payment here. I don't have permanent residence yet, so it limits the loans and homes I can get a little, but there are some affordable houses in West Tokyo and Saitama we are looking at. We've been here since February and I already went to a concert (I saw Kep1er).
I know Arashi announced they will have one last tour, but I will likely not go. Though I might stop by Keikarou and see Aiba's mom again. Idk if I will go to another Kishidan gig again. Maybe if I get invited, but I think I wanna see artists live that I haven't seen yet, since I get less opportunities to go as a parent. I think I will restart this blog to practice translations again. Let me know what artists you want to read about.
I do plan to stay in Japan for life this time, so I will work toward PR and Japanese fluency even more.
