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Originally Posted by Nyororin
And if you don`t live in Japan, you can?
I really do not understand this argument against living in Japan...
I find it somehow strange that you have this set image of all Japanese living spaces as being tiny and with absolutely no space - apparently because that is the type of place you lived.
There are larger apartments. There are larger houses. You CAN have a big house with a big yard. Sure, it would be hard to pull off in the middle of a big city - but I`d like to see someone do the same in any other huge city outside Japan.
I live in Japan, and if I felt the desire, I could buy 100s of manga each month - and have plenty of space to store it all. Thankfully though, I have other hobbies and only a small handful of series I follow.
ETA; If living in Japan isn`t the thing for you - I have absolutely no issue with that. Everyone is different. But I still think it`s a bit unfair to compare the life you had at one point to the life you have now as the circumstances are so incredibly different. If you had made your life here, I somehow doubt you`d be living the same sort of life you had back in JET... Just as I am sure that if I`d made my life in the US things would be significantly different than the lifestlye I had there prior to leaving.
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Well, when I lived in Japan
I did not have the space to buy all the things I wanted because I lived in an urban one-room apartment. I went manga shopping with a single expat I know, and bought some things and he said the same thing. "I wish I had a place to put it all." Again, he is is a single guy living in a smallish apartment.
My point wasn't the space, so much, as what I look to do as a visitor (tends to be lots of shopping) and what I did to fill my time as a resident are pretty different.
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Originally Posted by samurai007
Heh, I collected over 1500 manga during my 2 years in Japan (since increased to over 1600 thanks to visiting Kinokuniya in SF). While I was living there, they filled my bookcases, my closet floors, and were stacked along the walls of my tiny, 1 room apartment. They filled 25 of the 28 boxes I shipped home by sea mail.
I don't know for sure, but I'd guess it's probably one of the better private collections of Japanese language manga in the US. MMM, how many do you have?
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Certainly not that many...That is pretty impressive. You probably had a hefty bill sending things home like I did.