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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
I don't get the city life bashing. I mean, maybe if you're older and want to settle down and raise your children, a city might not be that great. But when you're young and you want the latest in art, fashion, music, entertainment, food, and everything else, you can't get that level anywhere else. It might be dirty, cramped, and crowded, but it's lively.
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I hope my post wasn`t interpreted as city bashing. I live in a city, and love living in a city. But there is city-life, and then there is a step beyond where the fun starts getting to be a pain because you have to fight through the crowds and grime just to get to it... And it is no longer fun after you`ve waited in line for 3 hours.
I guess it is because I live in a huge city that *isn`t* that way that I say this. Any "fun" in Tokyo took twice as long as it would have at home because everyone else was trying to have fun in the same place... And when I was tired from the crushing crowds, every retreat was also full of people trying to retreat (but not succeeding).
What I am trying to say is that most new things in Japan hit the three main metro areas - Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya. You can be in the other two and still get the positives of a huge city in Japan without the negatives of *Tokyo*.