good luck :ywave:

It was previously mentioned the permanent residency can be obtained in 5 years, but that is often not the case. The 5 year clock applies to your visa type. If you have a student visa for 2 years, and a then change to a work visa, the 5 years starts again with the new visa. There are people who have lived in Japan for 10 years or more who have not been able to get permanent residency.

Technically, you have to give up your previous nationality when you become a permanent resident, but that rule is one of those many laws which Japan seems to turn a blind eye to.

You can get a home with a yard in Japan if you are willing to live some distance from the metro areas. The average price of an older 3 room home with a small yard where I live (1 hour from Tokyo) is about $90,000. Not very expensive, and easy enough to afford if you don't mind commuting an hour each way to the city every day, or can find work in your own community.

To finance a house, you'll need to have permanent residency, banks will not give loans to foreigners living in Japan on a visa.

As you are probably aware, the easiest job for foreigners to get in Japan is teaching English. There are many jobs available, and the pay is not bad. But judging by your post, your English needs quite a bit of improvement. Almost all schools will look at your application/cover letter/resume carefully, and evaluate it for spelling and grammar mistakes. Some schools will require you write an essay, such as "Why I want to live in Japan".

Ganbatte

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To everywon I plan on living in a Suburb, cities suck in so many words. And for my English i have a mild dyslexia.



Iv'e read 73 pages of threads lol, yes i know i should not consider citizenship but it seems like it takes forever and is better to know what i may be facing. Most likely i will stay in the states, but Japan is a really close possibility and I have to be overly prepared for every thing. So if I do want to live there I want to 100% know what im in for or at minimum have a idea. Also I just want a small yard like 1 acre. Or have a farm type place really far from city and lots of land.But idk w/e There will always be good and bad. I plan on around 100,000$ usd - 500,000$ usd ( 10,902,141.79 yen-54,490,142.28 yen)

Umm...

I think you need to familiarize yourself with Japan a bit more.

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LoL yeah school keeps me busy atm tho

1 acre yard?

I don't even know if there is verb for "mowing the lawn" in Japanese because I have never seen a house with a "yard" big enough to merit a lawn-mower. What is the word for "lawn mower" in Japanese?

I know that in city areas, like Tokyo and such wouldn't have lawns, and shouldn't be expected, but what about country, rural type areas with houses? I always figured that places like those would have "lawns" since there'd probably be some actual room for them.

What would a monolingual American couple do for a living or how would they just survive for that matter if they lived so far away from a city so that they can have a lawn? I'm sure they'd go crazy in a few months.

芝刈り機
We have a yard. We mow it. :mtongue: It`s nowhere near an acre though.

To return to the original poster -
Let me get this straight... You want to live in an American countryside that just happens to be in Japan? You have made it pretty clear that you know virtually nothing about life in Japan, and absolutely no Japanese.

What is the appeal? The "coolness" factor of being able to say "I live in Japan"? You`re not making all that much sense, to be quite honest. It sounds like you`d be better off buying a house in the country in the US, and decorating it in Japanese style.

To give perspective, it`s sort of along the same lines as someone saying "Hey, I need to figure out the floor plan for my new private clinic that I`m going to build with all that money I made from being a top surgeon.".... When you haven`t even entered med school. You`re leaping so very far ahead of yourself that it just sounds silly.