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Originally Posted by Paul11
Generally, young people are more prone to change and allowing new ideas to permeate their psychology. There are always exceptions to the rule, such as your examples. The ones who "get it" and can nail themselves in are the minority. By far, most folks can only live there for so long without at least going home for long breaks.
Also, most people are there because they enjoy it. but we all knew people who couldn't come back. Certain prime years slip by, a few years puts one behind the times in their own countries and they feel like it's almost impossible to leave. we've all met them.
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I am not interested in debating this topic as I think we probably agree. Some people are meant to leave their home country, and some aren't.
But there are thousands if not tens of thousands of non-Japanese who do this every day and have been doing it for years...if not decades. Not all people who move to Japan get weird.
Living in Japan changes you...there is no doubt.
If you spend a little time on these forums you will see that there are a lot of people that have never been there that dream of going. People like Nyororin and I, (and several others), try to point their ideas toward reality. But also try to not crush dreams.