I love hearing about other people's lives and their personal journey and goals so I'm more than happy to read long comments like yours.
Ahh I see, Japan is like your ultimate location. I'm not too familiar with Japan Visa Hacks if it is similar in any way to Thailand. But for Thailand you can get a month free and can extend it for another month or if you're prepared you can purchase a 60 day visa before you land and extend that for another 30 days. Then if you want to stay even longer you can do a 'visa run' where you leave the country either by flying out or you book a service that is specifically for people that want to stay longer but there visa is about to run out. So you fly/drive to another country close by and then come back in so you can get another 30 days free and then rinse and repeat. A lot of Nomad do that to stay in thailand for as long as they would like.
If Japan is your big goal, I would totally go for it because it sounds like this something you would never regret. Even if it is just for 3 months at first. But I can see how your housing situation poses some challenges and I haven't been in a situation like that before so I can't relate on that end. But I will say that if this is something you want, don't close the idea of living in japan because it seems impossible at this moment. Keep researching, see how other people made there way to japan and the steps they took and keep weighing up options, if this is what you want you don't stop till you get there even if it takes a few years of preparing. Baby steps!
You probably know this but I only found out that recently many japanese families celebrate christmas with KFC 😝I thought was interesting.
Out of curiosity because you mentioned that your ideal life would be alone with your wife away from the world, have you ever done/heard of the myers briggs personality test? I would love to know what your personatlity type is. You can do it here if you are bothered https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test but if you are familiar with it, I'm a ISFJ (naturally introverted). After moving so many times and losing touch with almost all my friend I too don't have many people at the moment who know me and who I can hang out with. Well now that i'm living in the sunshine coast a new territory for me I only know my boyfriend here hahas.
Anyways... I should wrap it up other wise i will keep going on and on. Thank you again for your kind feedback and I am inspired to make more videos 😁
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