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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. ؜‏Verified account @levelsio 19 Jul 2018
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      ؜ Retweeted Le Wagon Tokyo

      Being a foreigner in 🇯🇵Japan means you will always be treated as a second-class citizen, that’s why it’s such a terrible place for nomads (but still great for tourists) https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-with-the-view-that-life-and-work-for-foreigners-is-difficult-in-Japan …https://twitter.com/LeWagonTokyo/status/1019438727628640256 …

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      Le Wagon Tokyo @LeWagonTokyo
      Tokyo has that reputation for being an expensive city to live in. What we think? It's just bad reputation. Come and check for yourself! #Tokyo #Japan #digitalnomad #Nomadlist #RemoteWork https://medium.com/@LeWagonTokyo/is-tokyo-too-expensive-for-digital-nomads-f14a4b2f211c …
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    2. ؜‏Verified account @levelsio 19 Jul 2018
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      Foreigners in 🇯🇵Japan have challenges unlike any other place: - You can’t rent an apartment on your name (you’re a foreigner!) - You can’t get a mobile phone subscription (did you remember you’re a foreigner?) - Japanese politics is right-wing and explicitly against foreigners

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    3. ؜‏Verified account @levelsio 19 Jul 2018
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      This stuff isn’t well known and most of the word is a Japan fanboy, I get it, sakura trees are nice. And yes it’s a lovely place to visit. But something has to change there.

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    4. ؜‏Verified account @levelsio 19 Jul 2018
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      inb4 “you’re European, this is how you treat refugees”, yep indeed very similar

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 19 Jul 2018
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      Replying to @smlpth @levelsio @SachaGreif

      I don’t identify as a nomad (and probably not as an expat, though rest of world might not care what I have to say about that). The situation is more complex than “Japan hates foreigners”, “Japan is a (racial/ethnic) monoculture” and similar capture.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 19 Jul 2018
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      Replying to @patio11 @smlpth and

      I would not advise technically inclined people who want to build a business to do so in Japan unless that desire is concomitant with also wanting to make an *enormous* expenditure of effort on figuring out how to exist here. Language is biggest barrier; far from only one.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 19 Jul 2018
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      Replying to @patio11 @smlpth and

      Food’s good. Internet is reliable. Prices are reasonable by first world standards. Tokyo may well be the world’s most livable city. All cultures are complicated; Japan’s culture has a lot of parts which are very likeable.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 19 Jul 2018
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      Replying to @patio11 @smlpth and

      Also feel like Japan is perceptively changing with regards to integration of foreigners over the course of the 15 years I’ve been here. Lots of anecdotes; e.g. I get “So when are you going home?” less often than literally every time I meet someone for the first time now.

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        1. Sacha Greif‏ @SachaGreif 19 Jul 2018
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          Yeah nobody asks me that, maybe once you’re past a certain age people assume you’re making your life here and not just passing by

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