[Nyororin]

Add me too to the list of people who don`t like Tokyo.
Really, I can`t stand the place - particularly as you can get all the amenities and convenience while not dealing with that level of grubbiness and crowding by living in other big Japanese cities.

Really couldn`t pay me enough to live there. My husband has passed up countless "promotions" into permanent positions in Tokyo over the years, even though the pay is 2 or 3 times what he gets working elsewhere.
Unfortunately he can`t get out of short term business trips there, but really it`s not a place I would ever choose to live. And the majority of people we know who do live in Tokyo live there because they really have no choice - their job sent them there.

I think it becomes the "dream Japanese city" to those outside Japan simply because, well, it`s the only city really known outside of Japan.