[Nyororin]

I disagree that my age had anything to do with my ability to "adapt", as I never suffered from any real adjustment period. Nor do I feel I have changed all that much as a person from around 15 to now. Yes, I`ve accumulated experience, but my fundamental views and beliefs have changed very little. I`m just far more mature and able to express them more clearly. Coming to Japan didn`t change me much as a person.

The largest advantage my age gave me was the ability to pick the language up more quickly than I would have been able to later.

Yes, I know of plenty of people who were completely unable to deal with life in Japan... But as MMM mentioned, they were usually unable to deal with in the beginning - not after years of being here. They all had strange expectations to begin with, and it wasn`t so much that they couldn`t handle life in Japan... It was that they were shocked that things weren`t as they had expected, and that life wasn`t suddenly a world of happiness just because they were away from some past problem. They feel betrayed, and that feeling turns to bitterness that clouds their view of anything in Japan.

And you ended up sounding like that type by coming in and saying people who are in Japan long term sort of break. I apologize for mistaking you for the type that goes around trolling boards, looking for opportunities to bash Japan.