In Japan, that’s not really seen so much as an issue (if you mean free-standing house). Flat-35 loans here are still extremely low interest and not expensive so it’s certainly doable for a couple to buy a condo.
The 12-hour-days thing I think is also overblown in the current climate. Not to say it doesn’t exist, but it’s definitely not everywhere.
I don’t know what you mean about the housing market; housing in Japan can be far more affordable than other places (I was in the market for a house here for a while and bought one recently). As I posted elsewhere, the government has been instituting more policies about overtime and such, but getting people to follow them due to societal norms and pressure is harder.
I do agree that the government isn’t solving several of the actual problems (daycare access, for one), but I think we disagree on what some of those problems are.
In Japan, that’s not really seen so much as an issue (if you mean free-standing house). Flat-35 loans here are still extremely low interest and not expensive so it’s certainly doable for a couple to buy a condo.
The 12-hour-days thing I think is also overblown in the current climate. Not to say it doesn’t exist, but it’s definitely not everywhere.
I don’t know what you mean about the housing market; housing in Japan can be far more affordable than other places (I was in the market for a house here for a while and bought one recently). As I posted elsewhere, the government has been instituting more policies about overtime and such, but getting people to follow them due to societal norms and pressure is harder.
I do agree that the government isn’t solving several of the actual problems (daycare access, for one), but I think we disagree on what some of those problems are.