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Originally Posted by mira
I have been to San Fransisco. It's pretty and I really enjoyed seeing all the lights and stuff because I had never seen a town like that. But again there are a lot of bad people. My friend used to live there and he has seen his friends get shot there. I know there are a lot of places like that, and San Fransisco was really cool when I went there but still not really my cup of tea. Alright fine what harm can it do? I live in Santa Cruz, I don't know if anyone has heard of it. But I can't stand it here, and a big reason is because of all the huge stoners and hicks and racism. Seriously I can't stand being around the people here. I am not trying to act like this is the worst place and everywhere else is better, because that is so not true. I know of MUCH worse places. But still I want to find somewhere better than this awful place.
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You'll find bad people and a criminal element everywhere in the world. Every country has racists. Certainly you won't have gun incidents and nearly zero marijuana in Japan. But to counterbalance the lack of guns the sex trade seems to be booming. I found the number of people (men and women) in the "selling yourself" on various levels in Tokyo alarming. So much prostitution. Instead of pot heads in Tokyo I saw a number of meth heads.
It's completely a trade off. If you were suddenly Japanese you'd just be trading in one set of social issues for another set.
One of my Japanese friends who left to live in Canada told me she had no recourse in her job when one of her managers found it funny to sneak up and put his penis in her ear while she was working. There was no structure to report him, no punishment for his behavior and no way to stop it other than to quit - which she did. Every society has it's pitfalls.