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11-09-2010, 11:53 AM
Yeah, I feel like you and I are often criticized for our honest opinions simply because we tend to say things how they really are rather than what everyone here wants to hear.
I wouldn't be here if I didn't like the place, and I can say that for anywhere else I've settled down. But it seems that if we try to even bring up one thing that is just wrong/unfair/inconvenient about Japan in any sense, we get labeled as haters. If anything we have all the more right to voice our opinion because unlike 99% of this forum we actually live here (let alone have visited). I think that you don't even have an opinion unless you either live here or have been here for an extended period, because what can you stand behind other than what you've read or seen on TV?
If I could only tell you guys some of the BS I've dealt with since I've been here, but I choose not to because as much as I deal with, there are still a lot of great things about living in Japan. But I'm not going to act like Japan is the promise land because that's ridiculous.
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