[Nyororin]

Add me to the number that doesn`t miss Tokyo. It`s too frustrating, sprawling, dirty, cramped, and crowded...
I love city life, but once you go past a certain point there is nothing but negatives. I can`t see any reason - other than employment related - that someone would choose to suffer the negatives of Tokyo... If it were the only city in Japan, I could understand. But I can get all the advantages of a Japanese big city, for cheaper at that, elsewhere.

It may just be me, but every time I go to Tokyo I seriously can`t wait to leave.

I think JohnBraden has hit the nail on the head though about why people feel the way they do about certain places. There is a much different mindset to someone who is visiting a place rather than actually living there. I live in Japan, permanently, so Tokyo has no "removed from the reality of daily life" appeal. All the uniqueness of "Japan" is normal to me, so when in Tokyo - the negatives of the huge city environment are far more visible. To someone just visiting, the uniqueness of Japan erases all that... If they even find them negatives, as they are unaware that there are places in Japan where you can get the positives without them.