I related SO MUCH when Rachel said she didn't fit rich people lifestyles. My philosophy is, if a room is so put-together that you are afraid to touch anything or sit on the furniture, it's too much. Houses are for living in.
I feel the same way. I also don't like the idea of living somewhere so large that multiple people could live there and I'd never know. I need 3 rooms total tops. A kitchen/front room combo, a bedroom, and a bathroom. And I'm set.
For me its about cleaning lol I want a decent size house, but I dont want a house so big it takes 2-3 days to clean by myself. I want a house I can clean in on a saturday morning and be done
I feel like no one really needs a house larger than 120-150m² it's better to have smart solutions and effective use of space rather than useless extra rooms that you have to clean
Are there UA-camrs who do that?! I love you guys but we have a very specific idea for what we want and we can't afford to buy more than one house, haha.
I really hate it when UA-camrs just flex how much money they have. Like, I KNOW you live in a mansion, thanks for rubbing it in. To be clear, I'm not saying people can't show their stuff on UA-cam. I just think it's all how you go about it. Humility is key.
Wouldn't landslide proof houses be next to other landslide proof houses though? I'd hope most people living in houses at risk of landslides weren't just living there worrying about dying at any moment
Maybe, thats why they dont build tornado proof houses in the us. I allways wondered, why people just stick to rebuild these matchboxes. I mean they cost as much as solid ones, at least what I heard from us house prices.
@@glimmerlicht Maybe a little above average, but I did mean average within suburban single-family housing. It's just that the average privacy, distance from neighbors, and property size for that category is very much well above average in Japan.
HI Join us as we look at houses we can't afford. But it's okay because we want to build our own house one day! Sorry my laptop gets loud in some spots!! He's just workin his fans.
Am I the only one that does this whenever I'm bored? Not all the time but I would look through listings , especially luxurious apartments, and think how nice it'd be to live there.
I do this SO MUCH I love to just open a little incognito window, and go through listings of homes for sale. Daydream about how I would decorate my future home as well.
OMG ME!!! I was shook to find out there were MILLION DOLLAR HOMES in Tucson, Arizona lol. I was like "girl....why doe?" lol Phoenix I get, Flagstaff, I get but TUCSON? She cute but not THAT cute hahaha
Muhammad Aiman it’s a popular game that’s usually at cookouts, Fourth of July events, and school festivals among other things. It’s a super cheap fun game.
Isn't anyone anywhere at risk of something? Wildfires are also a thing. By me it's mostly only earthquakesb but tsunami, fire or flood is really unlikely, but possible
@@dutchkel in Indonesia the most common natural disasters to happen is landslide for those who live uphill or volcanic eruption for those near volcano and flood for those who live at a big city or near a river at countryside. We rarely get earthquake or tsunami here. So there are much more risk free places you could choose here.
Where I live people tidy up to the extreme. Like you won't see a single loose object on the photo. It may be to make it look spacey I guess, but it really makes the houses look dead.
Hi, R&J! I watched a UA-camr called Tokyo Llama who bought an abandoned Japanese farmhouse-Akiya-for a very good price with a pretty neat yard space for the price they paid. Roughly about 1400sq meters for 27000USD. They bought it for the same reasons you stated; Privacy, backyard and space. Maybe you could look into something like this too. He talks extensively about the process of purchasing and is documenting the restoration process. I hope you guys find your dream house some day. It's nice to see people achieve their dreams. Good luck!
As a swede I just love that I can look at a room and go "Oh that's ikea, tha'ts ikea, and I never seen that thing before, but It SCREAMS ikea (Quick google, yep its Ikea)"
“Anything near rivers is a flood risk” Oh! Better avoid rivers then!! “Anything near the coast is tsunami flood risk” Oh dear! Avoid the coast! “Anything near mountains is a landslide risk.” Oh my god Japan is so scary... “And anywhere else is earthquake risk.” 0.0 oh no.
My partner and I would jokingly bet on how many types of ways all the heritage sites we visited in Japan had been previously destroyed. Every single castle : "burnt down in siege, rebuilt, destroyed in earthquake, rebuilt, flood... rebuilt."
I'm from Berlin and the fact that houses decrease in value there blows my mind. Here rent keeps going up, up, up and it's very hard to find land to buy a house on so if you got one, it will keep incresing in price. My parents got a 300 sqm piece of land 10 years ago, they only got ot through knowing people, and if they decided to sell now (which they won't, they want to grow old in that house they built) they could make half a million. Housing is about the rarest resource here
It’s because japan always comes out with new technology to protect against earthquakes, so older houses would be more prone to breaking or need a lot of work done.
Come to Leipzig, we have affordable rent until all of the people who can't afford Berlin anymore have moved here and the rents increased here too because of it. 😬
Same in the UK. There are houses that have doubled in price in 20 years and my area has the dubious distinction of having some of the highest levels of deprivation in the country. As a single person, trying to get a house would wipe my bank balance but renting isn't a good option for me either. But try telling that to a certain portion of the population who criticise the young for their inability to purchase a house. They fail to see just how expensive housing has become.
Apparently in my city, house value has increased by like 15% annually for the past 20 or so years :/ And I don't even live in a major tech city in the US!
I'm from Europe, and the house sizes in the US amaze me, here you can only have big houses like those if you live on the countryside in small villages or if you are upper middleclass or above (talking about newer houses).
I mean that true in the US as well. Rachel is not from a very big place. It's considered a major city and I wouldn't call it a small town, but it's small relative to LA, NY, Portland, The Bay, large cities in Texas, etc.
I disagree with the person who said that's true in the U.S. as well because it's definitely not. I was surprised when I went to Europe and saw how small the houses were. An average size American home would be ridiculously expensive over there.
@@jyllian3990 Where I live in the US at least, the price of a home is more based on the land than the home itself. We have shacks here that go for $300k+. In Europe, is it more of the house itself that determines the price?
I'm from Sweden, but live in the UK. For $100 000 in Sweden you can get almost a mansion if you look way up north, but in the middle of Stockholm you won't even get a studio apartment for that price. I live in "retirement country" here in the UK so all the prices are way up there. People retire and sell their smallish (but super expensive) places in London and move out here making all the stuff overpriced. From Sweden I'm used to a very high standard of living (well insulated houses, no mold etc) but here I had to completely forget about all that luxury. First place I lived in here had so much black mold it was almost impossible to live in, but it's so common here no one cares. Thankfully I've moved since and managed to rent a pretty newly built house!
I had the same experience coming from the Nordics. Ireland and the UK were impossible housing wise - terrible insulation, worse plumbing. Glad your new house is better!
I don't think it's that no one cares about black mold. It's more that it's likely to happen so we have ways of getting rid of it. Our houses are designed to contain heat, unfortunately this can cause ventilation issues hence the black mold.
“[The bunker home is] very, very expensive, and if [a landslide] happens, you will lose all your neighbors.” I don’t know why this sentence took me out 🤣 Thanks for the laughs, Jun! Looking forward to the day you two find/build your own home 😊
Naw man. That is cheap for Vancouver! 1Million will get you a nice condo in kits maybe. Or a crack shack house. (Which btw, there is a website where you can play crack shack or mansion with Vancouver houses. It is not easy! Haha)
I live in portland and I was SHOCKED that the million dollar home was one of the most expensive. A million dollars here gets you a really nice place, or a really nice view, but not a mansion. The house is trashed if it's below 250,000
Same!!! And with smoking too! The block of flats I live in is 口 shaped and all the windows open inwards! It’s a disaster because I’m asthmatic toward cigarette smoke
For the first time in my life I'm living in the downstairs apartment and my upstairs neighbor is so stompy and loud. It sounds like she's destroying her apartment starting at 3 something or 4 am. No neighbors sounds wonderful.
"I don't get rich people." Same. You can have all the money in the world but can't buy a sense of style. Or morals. Or manners. Also for Jun's question it really depends on the city-I'm from Tucson, Arizona and it's GREAT market for housing. A NICE house here can be bought for as low as 180k where that type of money in say LA wouldn't get you much at all. It's also CRAZY to hear that houses depreciate THAT quickly in Japan compared to America.
People who get rich early in life lose touch more quickly with regular people too, IMO. It's frustrating to see people in their twenties (either got rich quick by UA-cam or used YT to accentuate the wealth they got from Mom and Dad) be like "I bought a mansion! Lol, I got another sports car!" Nope. I haven't watched everything by MrBeast but he seems to be more of an approachable guy compared to a lot of wealthy UA-camrs out there.
Ah yes, the old "I'm gonna browse through affordable houses for the future but I'm not finding anything I like so I just start looking at houses I can never afford" trap. Never gets old.
500.000$ in rural Texas: mansion with farm 500.000$ in Los Angeles: apartment in ghetto 500.000$ in New York:............ garage 😳 500.000$ in San Francisco.......... Literally nothing 😆
I could get a house in the city, not outskirts I mean like 10 minute away from the city center, here in my German city. We are considered a cheap city even for German standards though, other cities are more like LA or New York too.
As an American the thought of a house depreciating that quickly just baffles me! I also love old houses and would prefer to restore an older home over building a new one, ya know for character! I've seen an article about abandoned homes in Japan, maybe that could be an option if they were willing to restore a home. I know its quite expensive but that would make for an interesting video series.
There is an Australian youtuber doing a series on just this! The video he did were he talked about how a lot of old japanese style houses are being abandoned, but they still cost a lot of money given the state of them was really interesting. His channel is Tokyo Llama if you want to check it out!
I've seen a couple of those videos as well. Although they are not uncommon, it is apparently very difficult to purchase one. (Based of the vids, even more difficult if your a foreigner.)
Yeah, unfortunately, here in Japan, doing renovations is often more expensive or costs the same as building a brand new house with good isolation. My apartment is 33 years old and the isolation is the worst (my friends and co-workers experienced it first-hand too XD lol). During summer (from the end of May and early June actually), it's ~35°-40°C on average in my kitchen. During winter, it goes down to ~6°-12C° on average, again INSIDE my kitchen (my previous fridge used to leak from the freezer door and the water would freeze during winter instead). (It's just like hobbies here, everything is crazy expensive and many are way to serious about them.)
Aren't those in areas a bit more far out and away from shopping areas and such? They're trying to get people to move there because people who were from there didn't want to stay there and instead moved to larger city areas.
Yes, but that might have to be in like 3 months because if you move into a place with ur cats, they will try to run away. They want to find their old home, so you can’t let them out yet
"you really have to decide wich natural disasters you are gonna prepare for". Duuude i live in Chile, probably the only country with as many natural disasters as Japan. I really feel that
As an Australian, seeing that house in Cincinnati I said "only a million?" that house would probably be multi million here. Just a nice, modern house / apartment would most likely be multi millions in a major Australian city lol
Yeh I live in Melbourne and you pay over a million dollars for a 2 bedroom house. Unfortunately tho the further out you buy like in estates the house may get bigger but the land size decreases although people believe buying in estates gives you more land. Even if you buy in an estates on the outside of Melbourne its still around 600k-800k.
The home is probably far from the city and not actually in Cincinnati, but a suburb. A lot of large million dollar+ homes in the US are outside of main cities and are in between suburban and rural. Basically, the land and labor are relatively cheap, so the biggest cost of a home will be the materials. Plus, this home has been on the market for over a year. Originally, it was listed at $1.3 million and has had numerous price changes and relistings since mid-2018. Edit: Also, Cincinnati is not a very desirable place to live, nor is Ohio in general, so home values are probably lower than the US national average.
That’s so strange that house in Japan depreciate as they age, I’d never heard of that. I live in northeast US, and as long as you maintain your house well it doesn’t matter how old your house is. Location will of course contribute to value as well, same as anywhere else. I live in the suburbs so the houses are a decent size though a bit expensive since there are plenty of good jobs here.
It's really fascinating, apparently because of the earthquakes they never bothered building them to last anyway, because eventually it would either need rebuilding or technology would improve so anyone would want to rebuild it anyway. But, like what Rachel said, it's changing, the building quality is getting better, so eventually it may appreciate.
@@ambrite Yep. I live in a 1967-built apartment, and every earthquake is...exciting XD I even feel earthquakes that don't register on the official local seismometer.
No it is a concept here it's just whether or not a house needs to be remodeled or when you update appliances and furnishings like a new ceiling fan or new door knobs. In Japan there is a lot of new innovations being created so after a while a house does become outdated and it would be easiest to start over
Here in Italy history-valuable buildings (as long as they get maintenance) might get more expensive with time, but normal building even recent buildings get awfully depreciated in time 😭. Now all new buildings have to be build with class a or b standards (insulation/solar/etc) they lose value slower but lose value none the less 😩
House values in Southern Germany is just the opposite to what you explained for Japanese values. The flat we are living in since the last 18 years has gone up by 250% since purchase. EDIT: From what I've heard about the reason for Japanese property devaluation is because of the changing/updating rules and standards to make buildings earthquake proof.
It's also a general practice in Japanese architecture that even when houses are built, they're not meant to last more than 30 years. They're all built according to the standards you mentioned but with cheap, relatively degradable materials since the developers figure they'll be torn down and replaced in a couple of decades anyway. On a different note, I've seen several Tokyo-based poets and writers reflect on the changing landscape of the neigjborhood and muse on the concept of modern-day 無常 (impermanence) in their writings, so that's one interesting outcome of this practice.
My house when I lived in japan was older with tatami rooms but you’re right, it had ZERO insulation. It was so so so cold in the winter and it only had two heaters, one for just the bedroom and one for the whole rest of the house. M-F I just heated my bedroom and it was only on the weekend I heated the whole house. But in the summer it was so nice to open all the doors that wrapped around the house and get breezes. I got a great deal on it too because it was older. Beautiful woodwork and a big open floor plan with two floors was the same cost as my friend’s one bedroom apartment
Traditional Japanese house appeared Me : “Ooh so cool I’d like to live there-“ Rachel : “There’ll be a LOT of cockroaches” Me : “...Bye for the eternity, house”
House browsing is so much fun. On days (prior to quarantine) I’d take my kids and tour model homes. Its free and the kids got a kick from it. It’s silly but I love just browsing them and seeing that maybe one day I could own something like this. One can dream right?
Aww, it’s not silly! My parents did the same with us as kids 🤣 it was fun! And I think it ended up helping me in my career to be able to see how all the houses are different on the inside!
My daughter has been following you for a very long time. I watch with her. We love you guys. I purchased my first home 3 years ago in Washington. 2200 sq ft for 174,500. Now it's worth 235,000. I was very blessed to get into the market when we did. We have a front and back yard. Also have a cover patio.
As a fellow Ohioan, Rachel explaining had cornhole to Jun had me laughing. It's an essential part of any Midwestern party. I've even seen it show up at a post-funeral dinner or two.
My family went to a block party shortly after moving to Ohio from Florida. Some guy mentioned cornhole and when I asked him to describe it, I said, "Oh, like beanbag toss?" He gasped and told me he thought it was a national sport. The version I grew up with was one board and I think you only got points for getting it in the hole. And we only played it during field days and PE lol.
I must've looked at literally thousands of property listings here in the UK, and one thing I can say for sure is: money can't buy good taste. I swear, the junk that wealthy people put in their houses makes it immediately look cheap.
I'd say it's cause a lot of the rich people are the older generations and they have yucky taste. Young rich people will probably opt for modern-looking mansions
I know you'll probably not see this but I just wanted to tell you guys how much your channel and yourselves mean to me. I have been watching your channel for years now ever since I began liking Japanese culture. In fact, the first ever video I watched of your is the video you made with Sharla about 'Things we wish we knew before moving to Japan' when I was like 11 xD I am now 16 and still enjoying your channel so much! It's been so nice seeing your journey as the year's have gone by and I have learnt so much about Japan, life in Japan and it's culture through your videos. You guys were some of the first people who introduced me to Japanese culture and also made me realise my love for it. In fact, I'm still considering moving to Japan in the next few years for university which makes me really excited! Thank you again for everything you guys have done and I look forward to your future videos :D (also, hope you guys are doing well and staying safe during these very unpredictable times! ^^)
There was once a contractor who moved into my half brothers neighborhood which is very dense like where you live and to make land space he bought two reasonable but older homes that needed a lot of work and demolished them both a built one house in the middle of the properties which took a lot of money and permits but the guy ended up with half an acre of land and a new McMansion for way cheaper then anywhere around here. He ended up also raising the property values by getting rid of the undesirable homes so even better for his neighbors
"You really have to decide which natural desaster you're gonna prepare for" LMAOOO this is so true omfg. You can't live safely in Japan, it's one natural disaster or another natural disaster, take your pick.
Kat, Cockroaches don’t care about garbage. In the south even the cleanest houses have roaches. They come inside to avoid weather extremes and for every one you see there are 10,000 hiding in the walls.
Rachel: cockroaches are everywhere and almost every home. Me: you just described Hawaii, we get solution... *pulls out rubbah slippah and start waving them* I get your solution right here! (Rubber slippers are flip flops)
There's a youtube channel called ' Tokyo Llama ' that I watch. It's a guy who brought an akiya/abandoned house in Japan for his family and is currently renovating it. He goes through the whole process. I would 100% recommend giving it a look, even just to get ideas. He managed to get an old house with a plot of land. In England houses are really expensive, so I know here that it's cheaper to renovate or build a house from scratch. Just a thought to look into !
I’m gonna go check him out. Just wanted to comment so you know how many people are going over there because of you :) Edit: I just went on to watch episode 2 just to realize I watched it months ago LOL thank you for reuniting me with the channel 😌
I started watching that channel to get a look at Japanese construction techniques. Sort of a Japanese take on "This Old House." Very interesting stuff.
@@toouniquetobe why are you afraid theyre going to revolt against their chinese overlords ? they wont as long as the americans keep the chinese that busy they have no reason to ;)
@@Varushka123 the feel of the overall situation where the world is now slipping from one crisis into the next ... just got a bad feeling so .. bunker sounds good to me ;)
It is not small but but typically houses in the US are in the level of 1600 sq ft, 2000 sq ft, 3000 sq ft and obviously luxury homes in the millions are typically in the 5000 sq ft. Therefore, while 150m2 (roughly 1600 sq ft) is not the smallest but it is in the small sizes house outside of maybe 1000 sq ft apt or townhome.
I would be perfectly fine with only have six of my closest friends or family over if I had a place that could allow it.... we have tiny condo and my hoarding situation means I don't let people come to our place. Ever. Except my moms but bio-mum is outta town and doesn't come by all that much and my adoptive mom doesn't usually come inside or stay at our place long. Usually just here to take the kids to her place or talk to us briefly about something or collect our rent.
I know someone who owns a condo in Tokyo. I was shocked to find out that in Japan with rare exceptions real estate prices go down. DOWN! That person was surprised that in many other parts of the world real estate prices go up. I was shocked even in Tokyo this is no different. My understand from this person is Japanese people don’t see previously owned real estate as valuable. Even in a city like Tokyo your real estate suffers the same downward trend in value as anywhere else in the country. He said it’s typical Japanese. If he sold his condo now he would lose money and have to pay some to cover his mortgage. He has owned it for 10 yrs and it is close to a metro station and 1 stop from Ueno Station so it’s in a very good area. This person likened owning real estate in Japan to owning a car. The value depreciates. When Japanese people buy homes they expect to stay there forever. I think this also explains a lot of abandoned houses in Japan. It doesn’t make sense to sell something whose value has depreciated to the point of not being worth even selling it.
Honestly can’t believe that Japanese houses are certainly going to lose value after you buy them! In the UK the housing market fluctuates with the economy but in general you will get around what you payed for it back unless you have bought a cheaper run down house and renovated it. A lot of people with more money buy houses as investments to rent out and then sell out in the future as another way of making money!
agreed! i was absolutely floored when they said that 'cus i live in hong kong, and unless something awful happens to your house you are almost always going to get a net increase in house prices in 10-20 years time. it's so common for rich people to buy several million+ dollar apartments and keep them empty and sell them out afterwards that they made a law against rapid buying and selling...
Seems to me in the UK you will always get back what you paid or much more. We are currently buying our first home and it was insane to see how much current owners had paid for the house in comparison to what it was selling for only ~5-10 years later. Especially older houses tend to increase in value so long as they are mantained properly. I would only really expect to see new builds over here drop drastically in value. Won't be surprised if many new builds are just completely scrapped and rebuilt in the future.
There's this one foreign guy with a Japanese family and they bought a really nice abandoned house and are documenting them restoring it and modernising it and adding all the things you said you didn't like about old Japanese houses. it's really inspirational. The channel is called Tokyo llama. I feel like that's exactly the kind of house you'd want.
When I lived in Japan, the squareness of the houses was kinda one of my "culture shock" things, but by the time I left I was thinking that if I lived alone or with one other person, it would be the perfect size if I could transplant it onto an American lawn lol. Some of those houses can be so pretty!
My family literally bonded one evening by looking up rich people homes for sale in our area. I didn’t even know there was a lake in my town. But rich people have ZERO style.
Your excitement for throwing beanbags in holes is why you are so special to him, you could tell June had a corner smile realizing that it's something so simple and it brings you so much joy i'm probably reading too much into this but I needed that moment
When I was much, much younger my dad was stationed in Panama (in the 70s when the US still owned the Panama Canal) and cockroaches were just a way of life.
And not only cockroaches! I got for the first time a huntsman spider in my apartment! I didn't even know they were a thing in Japan and I've been living here for 3 years already. A big ass spider of 5cm (2in) wide, but with spread legs, it was about 7.5cm (3in) wide. It was fast, but fortunately, I had some freezing spray for cockroaches in my cabinet! I use it on every big crawling thing inside my apartment (cockroaches, big spiders, stink bugs, etc.). ^^
Now I'm going to have nightmares... I live in northern Japan so I was imagining that I haven't seen any roaches because the winters here are so cold... But now I'm paranoid I've just been mildly lucky (or oblivious) so far 😭
Rachel: "In America, roaches in a house are considered pretty bad, whereas in Japan, it's a fact of life (AKA COMMONPLACE)" Me, a roach phobic, already struggling with seeing them in the U.S: *_SCREAMS IN MICHAEL SCOTT_*
@@michelleamatulle6378 fr!! i can't even look at the word without feeling some form of discomfort! I'd visit just to see JP but I don't think I'll ever be living there LoL 😅 and hotel choice will be a piiicky one
Better add Memphis too lol, I've never seen so many cockroaches just strolling down the street before. It isn't because of dirt either I guess they like the heat 🤷
"I don't get rich people" Immediately made me think of the Haruhi GIF 'these damn rich people' haha as far as North Carolina, we leave in suburbs, our backyard is 1.5 as big as out house lol
i'm currently looking for a house with my fiance. we live in canada, and the 234k cincinnati house u showed us would easily go for 400k+ where i live. houses are so expensive!!! 😢 thank u for showing us comparisons... very interesting!
it’s really interesting to see how prices differ in different countries. in the uk £500,000 can you a decent 3 bed semi detached house but then in other countries can get you a beautiful detached house
Woah, what part of the UK are you living in?! I'm in Loughborough in the East Midlands and my 3-bed semi was only £160,000! With a garden and a garage.
Hawaii has cockroaches big time too. I think like Rachael mentioned they've adapted. Another major plus for their high population would be the warm weather. Come to think of it, Fukuoka has warmer weather in Japan. That would make it much easier for bugs to thrive. Thank you guys so much for this informative show. Most of my husband's family live on Kyushu. Miyazaki & Fukuoka. Good luck & best wishes.
Man it feels so crazy, I’ve been watching your channel so long that I get to see you guys mature together as I grow up too and now you’re buying a house soon. You both really are so sweet and I wish you all the best! 💕💕
Here in Brasil the value of apartments and houses grow over time, itsy the normal... And it's very rare to see something being demolished completely, most are just modified from the previous house that's was standing before!
This is the opposite energy of those 2 guys who looked at cheap and suspicious houses in east Europe Also it's interesting that Japan shares "choose your natural disaster" with America.
Wait, can you expand upon the natural disasters thing in the US? I live on the East Coast but I feel ignorant Is it like: West coast - earthquakes, drought Mid west - dust bowl(?), snow storms Edit: tornadoes lol South - hurricanes and flooding East coast - hurricanes, snowstorms
@@BronzeBellaBria You can add wildfires to the West Coast/Southwest, and tornadoes to the Midwest and parts of the South. Snowstorms are more of a big deal near the Great Lakes for Midwesterners, especially compared to those in the Central/Plains states.
@Kodak idk, I was just guessing because I wasn't sure what she was referring to. I didn't think of the US as having lots of natural disasters before, but her comment got a lot of likes.
6:50 I live in the midwest too (IL) and I always say "let's play beanbags" and everyone just knows what it means lol I've never heard them called cornhole boards before. Goes to show how different states can be from another.
All my dreams of having an old traditional house in Japan got insta destroyed when cockroaches were mentioned. My mind makes up the worst-case scenarios and I just can't..
It made me think of this one episode of Yamishibai where the woman was possessed and became a spider except in this case I'm imagining it to be a cockroach.
Meanwhile in England, I'm torn between "Oh my god why is that so expensive in Japan it's tiny" and "oh my gOD WHY ARE AMERICAN HOUSES SO BIG FOR SO LITTLE" 😂
@@sarasthoughts pfft 😂 I mean, you're not wrong. Part of it is also that England is tiny and very pressed for space, but not as tiny and pressed for space as Japan, so I'm just astounded either way xD
I do this all the time! I live in Dublin, Ireland and the house prices here are very high. Honestly the quality or age of the build has little to do with price here, it's all about location. Prices will range from moderately high to astronomical. It's a very disheartening situation at the minute here. People are having to live at home into their 30s if they ever want to be able to afford to buy a house because rent is not controlled and is so so expensive. I know people who pay much more in rent per month than they would on a mortgage but because they can't get that initial step onto the property ladder they can't get out of renting. The homeless crisis here is really awful too. Things need to change but our government is doing so little, they just don't care about lower income people and families 😞
I really love looking at houses especially the interiors. Thats why i really love watching house tours on youtube. I also have several moodboards full with awesome interior in my pinterest.. they’re just so satisfying and inspiring to look at..
Rachel: let's look at a million dollar house. Me who has never lived outside of the SF bay area: It's only gonna be like a one bedroom home Rachel: It's five bedrooms and theres a literal fountain in the living room! Me: What the f!...
Toronto area. I can't imagine the amount of zeros attached to that house if it was located here. The cheap american house they looked at would be $800 000 in Toronto at best.
@@lyn3325 Where in Florida? I'm in central Florida. $250k gets you a 2 bedroom half of a duplex. 4 beds with marble flooring is 1 million plus. 1 bedroom efficiency is going for $975 a month for rental rates and to rent a room in a house is $600 plus utilities. The foreclosure down the road is a 2 bedroom, carpet throughout, tiny yard, I bathroom, 1 car garage done in a short sale a year ago for more than $250k. The new owners just replaced the roof, had to rip out flooring, replaced the cracked up driveway.
Canada housing is like american housing the price goes up over time and most people profit on their properties when they sell. I think houses are a bit pricier here than America tho.
Living in CA for 3 years I dealt with wild fires, earthquakes, and land slides. In the end you can never be 100% safe so it’s best to go for what you want and just prepare as best you can
I related SO MUCH when Rachel said she didn't fit rich people lifestyles. My philosophy is, if a room is so put-together that you are afraid to touch anything or sit on the furniture, it's too much. Houses are for living in.
Absolutely. Our cats are going to do their best to ruin everything anyway, lol. Durability and comfort is more important!!
I feel the same way. I also don't like the idea of living somewhere so large that multiple people could live there and I'd never know. I need 3 rooms total tops. A kitchen/front room combo, a bedroom, and a bathroom. And I'm set.
RoanStone ya, it was pretty tacky.
For me its about cleaning lol I want a decent size house, but I dont want a house so big it takes 2-3 days to clean by myself. I want a house I can clean in on a saturday morning and be done
I feel like no one really needs a house larger than 120-150m² it's better to have smart solutions and effective use of space rather than useless extra rooms that you have to clean
You guys better not buy a house that your fans want you to buy. You should buy a house that makes you happy.
THIS THIS THIS THIS.
Are there UA-camrs who do that?! I love you guys but we have a very specific idea for what we want and we can't afford to buy more than one house, haha.
Rachel & Jun's Adventures! Yes there are some UA-camrs that spend thousands on new things and millions on new houses because their fans want them to.
I really hate it when UA-camrs just flex how much money they have. Like, I KNOW you live in a mansion, thanks for rubbing it in.
To be clear, I'm not saying people can't show their stuff on UA-cam. I just think it's all how you go about it. Humility is key.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 👏👏👏🗣
Jun’s concerns about a landslide proof house: “and if it happened you’d lose all your neighbors”
Rachel's secretly thinking "Yesss exactly!" XD
I’m like: “I wish I was as good of a person as Jun”
She is such a caring person ❤️
Wouldn't landslide proof houses be next to other landslide proof houses though? I'd hope most people living in houses at risk of landslides weren't just living there worrying about dying at any moment
Maybe, thats why they dont build tornado proof houses in the us. I allways wondered, why people just stick to rebuild these matchboxes. I mean they cost as much as solid ones, at least what I heard from us house prices.
It's funny how Rachel is basically describing how she wants an average suburban single-family house, but in Japan.
Best of luck with finding that.
I agree. Jun better become a top chef over there.. Or they should move back to the U.S.
Average?
@@glimmerlicht Maybe a little above average, but I did mean average within suburban single-family housing. It's just that the average privacy, distance from neighbors, and property size for that category is very much well above average in Japan.
Maybe if they moved to Hokkaido they could find a house like that!
Flimmer Yeah that was my thought 😭 like umm that's upper middle class for sure
I've never thought of pre-owned houses as "used" before
Yeah, it is really weird concept for me. I have never thought about if anyone lived there before. Just interested in the layout and condition.
Try buying a house in the land in France. They are definitly "used"
But yeah, we can still restore them before selling (or after buying)
How does this grab you? "Certified used house"
HI
Join us as we look at houses we can't afford. But it's okay because we want to build our own house one day!
Sorry my laptop gets loud in some spots!! He's just workin his fans.
Ello
Lol, I also imagine things if I can’t afford them😂
Oh phew, I thought my phone audio was just acting up 😱🤣
Look at Rachel stuntin on us with that eye makeup. Go off, sis 👏🏿
what about instead of a backyard a rooftop garden/bbq area? It seems like that might be more possible with some of those houses.
Am I the only one that does this whenever I'm bored? Not all the time but I would look through listings , especially luxurious apartments, and think how nice it'd be to live there.
You're definitely not alone!! haha
Living in New York, I do that all the time 🥺
I do this SO MUCH I love to just open a little incognito window, and go through listings of homes for sale. Daydream about how I would decorate my future home as well.
OMG ME!!! I was shook to find out there were MILLION DOLLAR HOMES in Tucson, Arizona lol. I was like "girl....why doe?" lol
Phoenix I get, Flagstaff, I get but TUCSON? She cute but not THAT cute hahaha
I do a similar thing, but on Petfiinder haha
"I want to go into my backyard and grill and play cornhole." A bald eagle sheds a tear.
😹😹😹 her american is showing
LMAO
why with cornhole? I'm not American
Muhammad Aiman it’s a popular game that’s usually at cookouts, Fourth of July events, and school festivals among other things. It’s a super cheap fun game.
@@muhammadaiman6713 it's a fun game that kids, elderly,& the extremely competitive, can all play together.
Meanwhile in Sydney, “woah only a million that’s a bargain”
That’s because Australian dollars are worthless 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
I was just thinking that the whole time I was watching this video 😂🤣
Wait really??!?!?!!! How much dose a gallon milk cost then?😳
Anna Silva it’s about $1 Aud per litre so a gallon would be around $3.7
thePickle360 o wow I thought was gonna be more expensive so is it just homes?
Announcer: "Choose your natural disaster"
Someone buying a house in Japan: "Choose your WHAT?"
but... that's the USA too? Your choice of impending doom from tornados, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires
@@nevroth I guess that's true.
Speak for yourself. The only natural disasters in my area are flash floods (I live on a hill, not a big deal) and the OCCASIONAL tornado.
Isn't anyone anywhere at risk of something? Wildfires are also a thing. By me it's mostly only earthquakesb but tsunami, fire or flood is really unlikely, but possible
@@dutchkel in Indonesia the most common natural disasters to happen is landslide for those who live uphill or volcanic eruption for those near volcano and flood for those who live at a big city or near a river at countryside. We rarely get earthquake or tsunami here. So there are much more risk free places you could choose here.
turns out, they just wanna live in a greenhouse with a giant kitchen
With a big fake tree in the middle for the cats to climb.
@@Mikeztarp how'd I forget that? Trees everywhere for the cats-!
I'm down for a greenhouse giant kitchen.
@@aos-archive Yo, me too-! That sounds so fun to cook in
i've lived in one before! would highly recommend
"For an old house like this... it is 100%-"
me: HAUNTED
her "full of cockroaches"
me: oh.. well that's not as fun
XD
Honestly thought she was going to say that too!
I'd say both lmao
Same reaction here XD
i thought she was gonna say haunted too hahahah
I honestly do that too haha. I personally really like seeing how people decorate them for showrooms
Where I live people tidy up to the extreme. Like you won't see a single loose object on the photo. It may be to make it look spacey I guess, but it really makes the houses look dead.
@@hkr667 could it be that you love in Germany I was there on vacation and they are really extreme when it comes to tidying up
Hi, R&J!
I watched a UA-camr called Tokyo Llama who bought an abandoned Japanese farmhouse-Akiya-for a very good price with a pretty neat yard space for the price they paid. Roughly about 1400sq meters for 27000USD. They bought it for the same reasons you stated; Privacy, backyard and space. Maybe you could look into something like this too. He talks extensively about the process of purchasing and is documenting the restoration process.
I hope you guys find your dream house some day. It's nice to see people achieve their dreams.
Good luck!
Ms. Zzz the problem is that kind of houses located in the middle of nowhere, abandoned (sometimes). She wants urban kind of family houses with gardens
As a swede I just love that I can look at a room and go "Oh that's ikea, tha'ts ikea, and I never seen that thing before, but It SCREAMS ikea (Quick google, yep its Ikea)"
“Anything near rivers is a flood risk”
Oh! Better avoid rivers then!!
“Anything near the coast is tsunami flood risk”
Oh dear! Avoid the coast!
“Anything near mountains is a landslide risk.”
Oh my god Japan is so scary...
“And anywhere else is earthquake risk.”
0.0 oh no.
Ahhh.. so you recommend Sakurajima..
This was my reaction as well😂😂😂
My partner and I would jokingly bet on how many types of ways all the heritage sites we visited in Japan had been previously destroyed. Every single castle : "burnt down in siege, rebuilt, destroyed in earthquake, rebuilt, flood... rebuilt."
Just...HOVER! 😆
Floods? FL MS TN. Landslides CA, OR ID or UT. Hahaha.
God Rachel's eyeshadow in this video is GORGEOUS though
I'm about to say the same thing!
I think Rachel is great at makeup in general lol her eyeshadow is usually amazing
Just generally Rachel in this video is gorgeous. That top goes beautifully with her skin and hair
Yess, thats the first thing I noticed! :)
ikr. I can't stop noticing it.
Does anyone else just feel imensely calm when you watch their videos like honestly Rachel and Jun give off the "cool aunt and her husband" vibes.
FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION BECAUSE I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO BE AN AUNT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER so yes, I will accept this description.
Rachel & Jun's Adventures! Awww congratulations!
@@RachelandJunAdventures CONGRATULATIONS!!!
@@RachelandJunAdventures CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!
@@RachelandJunAdventures Congratulation ~ :D
I'm from Berlin and the fact that houses decrease in value there blows my mind. Here rent keeps going up, up, up and it's very hard to find land to buy a house on so if you got one, it will keep incresing in price. My parents got a 300 sqm piece of land 10 years ago, they only got ot through knowing people, and if they decided to sell now (which they won't, they want to grow old in that house they built) they could make half a million.
Housing is about the rarest resource here
From Berlin here, too :D But I think it's like this in all of the big citys :(
It’s because japan always comes out with new technology to protect against earthquakes, so older houses would be more prone to breaking or need a lot of work done.
Come to Leipzig, we have affordable rent until all of the people who can't afford Berlin anymore have moved here and the rents increased here too because of it. 😬
@@DieAlteistwiederda Oh nice, didn't know that! I went to Potsdam where it's at least better than Berlin :)
Same in the UK. There are houses that have doubled in price in 20 years and my area has the dubious distinction of having some of the highest levels of deprivation in the country. As a single person, trying to get a house would wipe my bank balance but renting isn't a good option for me either. But try telling that to a certain portion of the population who criticise the young for their inability to purchase a house. They fail to see just how expensive housing has become.
Japanese house prices: decreases with age
UK house prices: Average house price went up by £100k in 10 years regardless of age
YEET
and condition of the house
nope - the pound just plummeted 😉
Apparently in my city, house value has increased by like 15% annually for the past 20 or so years :/ And I don't even live in a major tech city in the US!
Mate its a million here in australia, or i ghess 500k pound.
OMG THIS! 😭😭 I want to buy a house rn in Manchester but it’s like impossible with the housing market just increasing every year 😭😭
"Hold on I need to translate this for Americans real quick" 🤣 but fr tho I wished we used the metric system like everyone else.
me too! living as a canadian near the border, I have to learn both systems!
Even though I'm British, we half-use the metric system. It's annoying, I wish we would just commit to it!
Well, you could always learn it by yourself, so you don't get confused in this kind of situation 🤷🏻♀️
We're use to what we're use to. 🤷♀️ I don't mind the system we have. Lol learn both if you encounter this issue often.
@@DARTHYURI it is true the metric one is more precise and easy to use, but I doubt the US will ever change their system. So yeah
"I want open spaces with many large windows and plants."
A greenhouse.
You want to live in a greenhouse.
Which tbh would be pretty cool.
However then they couldn't throw stones
Sarah Circus oh god, no, i would melt. it sounds good in theory but it would always be so hot and humid
I'm from Europe, and the house sizes in the US amaze me, here you can only have big houses like those if you live on the countryside in small villages or if you are upper middleclass or above (talking about newer houses).
I mean that true in the US as well. Rachel is not from a very big place. It's considered a major city and I wouldn't call it a small town, but it's small relative to LA, NY, Portland, The Bay, large cities in Texas, etc.
In the UK the house sizes are totally ridiculous. So small usually like a hobbit hole. Except of course if you rich
I disagree with the person who said that's true in the U.S. as well because it's definitely not. I was surprised when I went to Europe and saw how small the houses were. An average size American home would be ridiculously expensive over there.
@@jyllian3990 Where I live in the US at least, the price of a home is more based on the land than the home itself. We have shacks here that go for $300k+. In Europe, is it more of the house itself that determines the price?
@@peep3616 Honestly I'm not sure about that. I'm not from Europe btw
Architect: “so what you want”
Racheal and Jun: “really big windows and tons of plants”
Architect: “Then how many windows and how big?”
Rachel and Jun: “Yes!”
@@emilysg LOL
After hearing them talk about the size of the properties I now understand why seeing people with large dog breeds are pretty rare there.
I'm from Sweden, but live in the UK. For $100 000 in Sweden you can get almost a mansion if you look way up north, but in the middle of Stockholm you won't even get a studio apartment for that price. I live in "retirement country" here in the UK so all the prices are way up there. People retire and sell their smallish (but super expensive) places in London and move out here making all the stuff overpriced. From Sweden I'm used to a very high standard of living (well insulated houses, no mold etc) but here I had to completely forget about all that luxury. First place I lived in here had so much black mold it was almost impossible to live in, but it's so common here no one cares. Thankfully I've moved since and managed to rent a pretty newly built house!
Fellow Unus!!!
I had the same experience coming from the Nordics. Ireland and the UK were impossible housing wise - terrible insulation, worse plumbing. Glad your new house is better!
Same thing In New York. You can't even buy a condo for the price of that Cincinnati house.
I'd think that the mold would be a health issue and illegal.
I don't think it's that no one cares about black mold. It's more that it's likely to happen so we have ways of getting rid of it. Our houses are designed to contain heat, unfortunately this can cause ventilation issues hence the black mold.
“[The bunker home is] very, very expensive, and if [a landslide] happens, you will lose all your neighbors.” I don’t know why this sentence took me out 🤣 Thanks for the laughs, Jun! Looking forward to the day you two find/build your own home 😊
1 million dollar house. Me in Vancouver: seems about right.
Yep
I live in Ottawa, never been to BC, sounds right (specifically for BC)
same in ireland
Naw man. That is cheap for Vancouver! 1Million will get you a nice condo in kits maybe. Or a crack shack house. (Which btw, there is a website where you can play crack shack or mansion with Vancouver houses. It is not easy! Haha)
@@yamo_chan Depends if you're counting Vancouver just by itself or the surrounding areas as well
meanwhile, in big cities everywhere..."holy shit it's only a million???? Did someone die in here or something???"
I saw that million price and was like omg what a deal
Panzer_Z IKR my first thought was that it was incredibly noisy and not safe-
I live in portland and I was SHOCKED that the million dollar home was one of the most expensive. A million dollars here gets you a really nice place, or a really nice view, but not a mansion. The house is trashed if it's below 250,000
@@persomnus a million here in the SF Bay Area is basically starting price even for a fixer upper 😭😭
@@Panzer_Z where I live, 3,000,000+ for an apartment smaller than that :,)
This is literally "Rachel tries to convince Jun to live in the States for a better house and a more reasonable price" lol
I don’t recommend it rn with the pandemic going on tho
Rachel: I don't want neighbors
Me, hearing my neighbors argue loudly everyday: *Same*
Same!!! And with smoking too! The block of flats I live in is 口 shaped and all the windows open inwards! It’s a disaster because I’m asthmatic toward cigarette smoke
Me, whose neighbor runs a daycare our of their home: SAME
Finally buying a house and moving next month and I CANNOT WAIT to leave these annoying rude neighbors I have had to put up with for the past 2 years.
I want to live in a jungle/ forest with absolutely no one around
For the first time in my life I'm living in the downstairs apartment and my upstairs neighbor is so stompy and loud. It sounds like she's destroying her apartment starting at 3 something or 4 am. No neighbors sounds wonderful.
"I don't get rich people."
Same. You can have all the money in the world but can't buy a sense of style. Or morals. Or manners.
Also for Jun's question it really depends on the city-I'm from Tucson, Arizona and it's GREAT market for housing. A NICE house here can be bought for as low as 180k where that type of money in say LA wouldn't get you much at all. It's also CRAZY to hear that houses depreciate THAT quickly in Japan compared to America.
And not to mention they are stingy when it comes to services like delivery
People who get rich early in life lose touch more quickly with regular people too, IMO. It's frustrating to see people in their twenties (either got rich quick by UA-cam or used YT to accentuate the wealth they got from Mom and Dad) be like "I bought a mansion! Lol, I got another sports car!" Nope.
I haven't watched everything by MrBeast but he seems to be more of an approachable guy compared to a lot of wealthy UA-camrs out there.
@@videoket alot of youtubers buy those for content
@@RalphieMartinS oh absolutely. A smart wealthy person isn't going to FLAUNT they're wealthy. But dumb rich kids do this all the time.
180k wow that's such a good price!
13:48 Arrowslits so your archers could shoot invaders without being shot back.
Ah yes, the old "I'm gonna browse through affordable houses for the future but I'm not finding anything I like so I just start looking at houses I can never afford" trap.
Never gets old.
I just go straight to the ones I can never afford.
500.000$ in rural Texas: mansion with farm
500.000$ in Los Angeles: apartment in ghetto
500.000$ in New York:............ garage 😳
500.000$ in San Francisco.......... Literally nothing 😆
$500.000$ in NOVA: Modern house in need of a renovation 😂
Well actually real estate prices might go down because more people are leaving the city.
$500,000 In Toronto - Also a ghetto.
I could get a house in the city, not outskirts I mean like 10 minute away from the city center, here in my German city. We are considered a cheap city even for German standards though, other cities are more like LA or New York too.
@@DieAlteistwiederda (first of all is that gaara and leeeee
As an American the thought of a house depreciating that quickly just baffles me! I also love old houses and would prefer to restore an older home over building a new one, ya know for character! I've seen an article about abandoned homes in Japan, maybe that could be an option if they were willing to restore a home. I know its quite expensive but that would make for an interesting video series.
There is an Australian youtuber doing a series on just this! The video he did were he talked about how a lot of old japanese style houses are being abandoned, but they still cost a lot of money given the state of them was really interesting. His channel is Tokyo Llama if you want to check it out!
@@TheSuperHopeless if he is renovating an abandoned house, I watch him too :)
I've seen a couple of those videos as well. Although they are not uncommon, it is apparently very difficult to purchase one. (Based of the vids, even more difficult if your a foreigner.)
Yeah, unfortunately, here in Japan, doing renovations is often more expensive or costs the same as building a brand new house with good isolation. My apartment is 33 years old and the isolation is the worst (my friends and co-workers experienced it first-hand too XD lol). During summer (from the end of May and early June actually), it's ~35°-40°C on average in my kitchen. During winter, it goes down to ~6°-12C° on average, again INSIDE my kitchen (my previous fridge used to leak from the freezer door and the water would freeze during winter instead).
(It's just like hobbies here, everything is crazy expensive and many are way to serious about them.)
Aren't those in areas a bit more far out and away from shopping areas and such? They're trying to get people to move there because people who were from there didn't want to stay there and instead moved to larger city areas.
I want to see Nagi, Haku and Poki's reaction when you move into a big house with a big yard. Especially Poki. I anticipate he'll be hilarious.
Yes, but that might have to be in like 3 months because if you move into a place with ur cats, they will try to run away. They want to find their old home, so you can’t let them out yet
Though the house reaction might work!
Pliplop PlipploppIip6 Yeah
"you really have to decide wich natural disasters you are gonna prepare for". Duuude i live in Chile, probably the only country with as many natural disasters as Japan. I really feel that
Waves from New Zealand! We feel you
x-tra disaster: pin8istas 🤮
There is actually a list for it lol.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_disaster_risk?wprov=sfla1
As an Australian, seeing that house in Cincinnati I said "only a million?" that house would probably be multi million here. Just a nice, modern house / apartment would most likely be multi millions in a major Australian city lol
Yeh I live in Melbourne and you pay over a million dollars for a 2 bedroom house. Unfortunately tho the further out you buy like in estates the house may get bigger but the land size decreases although people believe buying in estates gives you more land. Even if you buy in an estates on the outside of Melbourne its still around 600k-800k.
The home is probably far from the city and not actually in Cincinnati, but a suburb. A lot of large million dollar+ homes in the US are outside of main cities and are in between suburban and rural. Basically, the land and labor are relatively cheap, so the biggest cost of a home will be the materials. Plus, this home has been on the market for over a year. Originally, it was listed at $1.3 million and has had numerous price changes and relistings since mid-2018.
Edit: Also, Cincinnati is not a very desirable place to live, nor is Ohio in general, so home values are probably lower than the US national average.
Thought the same thing, those in NL would easily be multimillion as well.
BeingSamNeill correct me if I’m wrong, Australian is generally a very expensive country
Small Floof yea, the cost of living is relatively high.
That’s so strange that house in Japan depreciate as they age, I’d never heard of that. I live in northeast US, and as long as you maintain your house well it doesn’t matter how old your house is. Location will of course contribute to value as well, same as anywhere else. I live in the suburbs so the houses are a decent size though a bit expensive since there are plenty of good jobs here.
It's really fascinating, apparently because of the earthquakes they never bothered building them to last anyway, because eventually it would either need rebuilding or technology would improve so anyone would want to rebuild it anyway. But, like what Rachel said, it's changing, the building quality is getting better, so eventually it may appreciate.
@@ambrite Yep. I live in a 1967-built apartment, and every earthquake is...exciting XD I even feel earthquakes that don't register on the official local seismometer.
ambrite That’s very interesting, I didn’t realize it had anything to do with improvements in earthquake resistance technology.
No it is a concept here it's just whether or not a house needs to be remodeled or when you update appliances and furnishings like a new ceiling fan or new door knobs. In Japan there is a lot of new innovations being created so after a while a house does become outdated and it would be easiest to start over
Here in Italy history-valuable buildings (as long as they get maintenance) might get more expensive with time, but normal building even recent buildings get awfully depreciated in time 😭. Now all new buildings have to be build with class a or b standards (insulation/solar/etc) they lose value slower but lose value none the less 😩
Off-topic but I really love Rachel's eye shadow
House values in Southern Germany is just the opposite to what you explained for Japanese values. The flat we are living in since the last 18 years has gone up by 250% since purchase.
EDIT: From what I've heard about the reason for Japanese property devaluation is because of the changing/updating rules and standards to make buildings earthquake proof.
It's also a general practice in Japanese architecture that even when houses are built, they're not meant to last more than 30 years. They're all built according to the standards you mentioned but with cheap, relatively degradable materials since the developers figure they'll be torn down and replaced in a couple of decades anyway.
On a different note, I've seen several Tokyo-based poets and writers reflect on the changing landscape of the neigjborhood and muse on the concept of modern-day 無常 (impermanence) in their writings, so that's one interesting outcome of this practice.
I actually picture you guys getting a reno, and Rachel's family flying over to rebuild it with you guys. With Rachel's gramps as your foreman.
YES. In a village somewhere just outside Fukuoka, where larger plots of land can be had for non-ridiculous prices. I hope places like that exist!
My house when I lived in japan was older with tatami rooms but you’re right, it had ZERO insulation. It was so so so cold in the winter and it only had two heaters, one for just the bedroom and one for the whole rest of the house. M-F I just heated my bedroom and it was only on the weekend I heated the whole house. But in the summer it was so nice to open all the doors that wrapped around the house and get breezes. I got a great deal on it too because it was older. Beautiful woodwork and a big open floor plan with two floors was the same cost as my friend’s one bedroom apartment
Traditional Japanese house appeared
Me : “Ooh so cool I’d like to live there-“
Rachel : “There’ll be a LOT of cockroaches”
Me : “...Bye for the eternity, house”
House browsing is so much fun. On days (prior to quarantine) I’d take my kids and tour model homes. Its free and the kids got a kick from it. It’s silly but I love just browsing them and seeing that maybe one day I could own something like this. One can dream right?
You enjoyed and so did your kids. Sounds like a win-win to me! 😊
Aww, it’s not silly! My parents did the same with us as kids 🤣 it was fun! And I think it ended up helping me in my career to be able to see how all the houses are different on the inside!
Moments like these create the best memories for kids, it also allows them to get insight at a young age at what they might might want in the future.
"Most of these have really big windows and lots of plants." That is a requirement in my dream home. along with a good old fashion country kitchen.
My daughter has been following you for a very long time. I watch with her. We love you guys.
I purchased my first home 3 years ago in Washington. 2200 sq ft for 174,500. Now it's worth 235,000. I was very blessed to get into the market when we did. We have a front and back yard. Also have a cover patio.
As a fellow Ohioan, Rachel explaining had cornhole to Jun had me laughing. It's an essential part of any Midwestern party. I've even seen it show up at a post-funeral dinner or two.
My family went to a block party shortly after moving to Ohio from Florida. Some guy mentioned cornhole and when I asked him to describe it, I said, "Oh, like beanbag toss?" He gasped and told me he thought it was a national sport. The version I grew up with was one board and I think you only got points for getting it in the hole. And we only played it during field days and PE lol.
me, living in the south not knowing what cornhole is:
Rachel: "we would like to own a house" Jun: Rachel does
I must've looked at literally thousands of property listings here in the UK, and one thing I can say for sure is: money can't buy good taste. I swear, the junk that wealthy people put in their houses makes it immediately look cheap.
I'd say it's cause a lot of the rich people are the older generations and they have yucky taste. Young rich people will probably opt for modern-looking mansions
I know you'll probably not see this but I just wanted to tell you guys how much your channel and yourselves mean to me. I have been watching your channel for years now ever since I began liking Japanese culture. In fact, the first ever video I watched of your is the video you made with Sharla about 'Things we wish we knew before moving to Japan' when I was like 11 xD I am now 16 and still enjoying your channel so much! It's been so nice seeing your journey as the year's have gone by and I have learnt so much about Japan, life in Japan and it's culture through your videos. You guys were some of the first people who introduced me to Japanese culture and also made me realise my love for it. In fact, I'm still considering moving to Japan in the next few years for university which makes me really excited!
Thank you again for everything you guys have done and I look forward to your future videos :D
(also, hope you guys are doing well and staying safe during these very unpredictable times! ^^)
There was once a contractor who moved into my half brothers neighborhood which is very dense like where you live and to make land space he bought two reasonable but older homes that needed a lot of work and demolished them both a built one house in the middle of the properties which took a lot of money and permits but the guy ended up with half an acre of land and a new McMansion for way cheaper then anywhere around here. He ended up also raising the property values by getting rid of the undesirable homes so even better for his neighbors
No joke, I've thought about trying that!! But it'll likely be out of our budget, even if we managed to find plots next to each other, haha.
That's kind of terrible that he removed a home from the market and drove up values.
@@drewcipher896 Actually it's good for the people who live there.
Soooo.... like gentrification then
"You really have to decide which natural desaster you're gonna prepare for" LMAOOO this is so true omfg. You can't live safely in Japan, it's one natural disaster or another natural disaster, take your pick.
“There are cockroaches every where in Japan.” Well take that off my bucket list .😂
ThePeytonLeigh 😂
is it because of how they keep the trash?? in front the house in bags not in containers? usually cockroaches are caused by trash problems
Kat, Cockroaches don’t care about garbage. In the south even the cleanest houses have roaches. They come inside to avoid weather extremes and for every one you see there are 10,000 hiding in the walls.
Try the Sabah state of Malaysia, it has the most number of cockroaches in the world.
Rachel: cockroaches are everywhere and almost every home.
Me: you just described Hawaii, we get solution... *pulls out rubbah slippah and start waving them* I get your solution right here! (Rubber slippers are flip flops)
There's a youtube channel called ' Tokyo Llama ' that I watch. It's a guy who brought an akiya/abandoned house in Japan for his family and is currently renovating it. He goes through the whole process. I would 100% recommend giving it a look, even just to get ideas. He managed to get an old house with a plot of land.
In England houses are really expensive, so I know here that it's cheaper to renovate or build a house from scratch. Just a thought to look into !
I love watching the house updates. Also very educating for anyone who might be interested in buying an abandoned house in Japan.
Thanks for the recommendation, the channel looks really interesting! :)
I’m gonna go check him out. Just wanted to comment so you know how many people are going over there because of you :)
Edit: I just went on to watch episode 2 just to realize I watched it months ago LOL thank you for reuniting me with the channel 😌
I only recently found out about this channel. I love what they are doing to the place. It's really nice to watch.
I started watching that channel to get a look at Japanese construction techniques. Sort of a Japanese take on "This Old House." Very interesting stuff.
why does a bunker on top of a bunker sounds like a really good idea to me these days ...
Why?
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Because of the russians ofc 💁🏼♀️😀
Curious578 ;-; uh why meh lol
@@toouniquetobe why are you afraid theyre going to revolt against their chinese overlords ? they wont as long as the americans keep the chinese that busy they have no reason to ;)
@@Varushka123 the feel of the overall situation where the world is now slipping from one crisis into the next ... just got a bad feeling so .. bunker sounds good to me ;)
Me. A German. Can't understand, why Rachel think, that 150 m² houses are small, while it's big for us/me. xD
It is not small but but typically houses in the US are in the level of 1600 sq ft, 2000 sq ft, 3000 sq ft and obviously luxury homes in the millions are typically in the 5000 sq ft. Therefore, while 150m2 (roughly 1600 sq ft) is not the smallest but it is in the small sizes house outside of maybe 1000 sq ft apt or townhome.
Rachel: “we’ll need a big kitchen for when we have friends over like 6 people”
Me (an introvert): 😳
They're also introverts.
I would be perfectly fine with only have six of my closest friends or family over if I had a place that could allow it.... we have tiny condo and my hoarding situation means I don't let people come to our place. Ever. Except my moms but bio-mum is outta town and doesn't come by all that much and my adoptive mom doesn't usually come inside or stay at our place long. Usually just here to take the kids to her place or talk to us briefly about something or collect our rent.
I know someone who owns a condo in Tokyo. I was shocked to find out that in Japan with rare exceptions real estate prices go down. DOWN! That person was surprised that in many other parts of the world real estate prices go up. I was shocked even in Tokyo this is no different. My understand from this person is Japanese people don’t see previously owned real estate as valuable. Even in a city like Tokyo your real estate suffers the same downward trend in value as anywhere else in the country. He said it’s typical Japanese. If he sold his condo now he would lose money and have to pay some to cover his mortgage. He has owned it for 10 yrs and it is close to a metro station and 1 stop from Ueno Station so it’s in a very good area. This person likened owning real estate in Japan to owning a car. The value depreciates. When Japanese people buy homes they expect to stay there forever. I think this also explains a lot of abandoned houses in Japan. It doesn’t make sense to sell something whose value has depreciated to the point of not being worth even selling it.
Honestly can’t believe that Japanese houses are certainly going to lose value after you buy them! In the UK the housing market fluctuates with the economy but in general you will get around what you payed for it back unless you have bought a cheaper run down house and renovated it. A lot of people with more money buy houses as investments to rent out and then sell out in the future as another way of making money!
agreed! i was absolutely floored when they said that 'cus i live in hong kong, and unless something awful happens to your house you are almost always going to get a net increase in house prices in 10-20 years time. it's so common for rich people to buy several million+ dollar apartments and keep them empty and sell them out afterwards that they made a law against rapid buying and selling...
Because most of them are made of woods due to earthquake . Stone last forever , wood will degrade overtime .
Seems to me in the UK you will always get back what you paid or much more. We are currently buying our first home and it was insane to see how much current owners had paid for the house in comparison to what it was selling for only ~5-10 years later. Especially older houses tend to increase in value so long as they are mantained properly. I would only really expect to see new builds over here drop drastically in value. Won't be surprised if many new builds are just completely scrapped and rebuilt in the future.
There's this one foreign guy with a Japanese family and they bought a really nice abandoned house and are documenting them restoring it and modernising it and adding all the things you said you didn't like about old Japanese houses. it's really inspirational. The channel is called Tokyo llama. I feel like that's exactly the kind of house you'd want.
Omg i watch Tokyo llama too. Its actually really cool that he's fixing up that old japanese house for his family to live in
I watch him too. His neighbours came to help him clear the yard. so nice!
I literally just came from that channel haha!
When I lived in Japan, the squareness of the houses was kinda one of my "culture shock" things, but by the time I left I was thinking that if I lived alone or with one other person, it would be the perfect size if I could transplant it onto an American lawn lol. Some of those houses can be so pretty!
My family literally bonded one evening by looking up rich people homes for sale in our area. I didn’t even know there was a lake in my town. But rich people have ZERO style.
But it was expensive and thus must be good
@@thatonedog819 that doesnt make any sense.
Your excitement for throwing beanbags in holes is why you are so special to him, you could tell June had a corner smile realizing that it's something so simple and it brings you so much joy
i'm probably reading too much into this but I needed that moment
this is like watching japanese The Sims gameplay
I got a cat yesterday! Her name is phoebe and she says hi ❤️
Congratulations! Say hi to phoebe for me and my four cats!
Cats are amazing congrats and welcome to the universe of cat ownership lol.....I have 2 cats one named Trixanne (Trixie) and one named Walter 😁
Tell her I said hi! I hope to get a cat one day too
Aww I grew up with a Siamese cat named Phoebe! Congrats!
Rikki Crowder Siamese cats are so pretty 🥺🥺
"the cockroaches have really just adapted to life in Japan" - Well there go my dreams of living in Japan. lol
ditto
When I was much, much younger my dad was stationed in Panama (in the 70s when the US still owned the Panama Canal) and cockroaches were just a way of life.
And not only cockroaches! I got for the first time a huntsman spider in my apartment! I didn't even know they were a thing in Japan and I've been living here for 3 years already. A big ass spider of 5cm (2in) wide, but with spread legs, it was about 7.5cm (3in) wide. It was fast, but fortunately, I had some freezing spray for cockroaches in my cabinet! I use it on every big crawling thing inside my apartment (cockroaches, big spiders, stink bugs, etc.). ^^
The one bug I hate more passionately than anything else pretty much. They gross me out and oh gawd no when the big ones decide to use their wings.
Now I'm going to have nightmares... I live in northern Japan so I was imagining that I haven't seen any roaches because the winters here are so cold... But now I'm paranoid I've just been mildly lucky (or oblivious) so far 😭
Rachel: "In America, roaches in a house are considered pretty bad, whereas in Japan, it's a fact of life (AKA COMMONPLACE)"
Me, a roach phobic, already struggling with seeing them in the U.S: *_SCREAMS IN MICHAEL SCOTT_*
I know right. Aaaaand add japan to the list of countries to never visit. Just the word cockroaches sends shivers down my spine.
@@michelleamatulle6378 fr!! i can't even look at the word without feeling some form of discomfort! I'd visit just to see JP but I don't think I'll ever be living there LoL 😅 and hotel choice will be a piiicky one
Michelle Amatulle I went to Japan a few years for 1 1/2 weeks and did not see one cockroach...thank God!!!!
Better add Memphis too lol, I've never seen so many cockroaches just strolling down the street before. It isn't because of dirt either I guess they like the heat 🤷
@@kiram1854 thanks, I'll cross that off the "places to visit" list 😬😬
My wife and I looked for a house in Japan for over two years, but in the end, we decided to rent because, over time, it's such a poor investment.
"I don't get rich people" Immediately made me think of the Haruhi GIF 'these damn rich people' haha as far as North Carolina, we leave in suburbs, our backyard is 1.5 as big as out house lol
i'm currently looking for a house with my fiance. we live in canada, and the 234k cincinnati house u showed us would easily go for 400k+ where i live. houses are so expensive!!! 😢 thank u for showing us comparisons... very interesting!
Literally same. Fellow Canadian
*cries in californian* that house would easily be a million dollar home here 😢
that house would be probably be at least 1.5mil in new york :(
Especially depends on what part of Canada too, cause in Toronto that house would be worth well over $1 Million
Same in Allgäu Bavaria Germany ;_;
it’s really interesting to see how prices differ in different countries. in the uk £500,000 can you a decent 3 bed semi detached house but then in other countries can get you a beautiful detached house
What part of the uk you from? In south wales 500k would get you a mansion or a 5 bed house with 2 car garage and a pool.
Woah, what part of the UK are you living in?! I'm in Loughborough in the East Midlands and my 3-bed semi was only £160,000! With a garden and a garage.
Or a low tier 2 bed flat in London 😥
yeah london prices are ridiculous
Me a property brothers conosoir:
“that kitchen needs a island sink with marble top”
😂😂😂
Giving me all the inspiration for sims builds I'll ever need.
Rachel😢you look so pretty aaaa. I love the hair-outfit-makeup coordination, you look like a fairy👉🏻👈🏻
I was thinking fire queen👑
Ngl I wish all websites had a cute ass mascot like the website you're visiting
Hawaii has cockroaches big time too. I think like Rachael mentioned they've adapted. Another major plus for their high population would be the warm weather. Come to think of it, Fukuoka has warmer weather in Japan. That would make it much easier for bugs to thrive.
Thank you guys so much for this informative show. Most of my husband's family live on Kyushu. Miyazaki & Fukuoka. Good luck & best wishes.
Oh hey I live in Cincinnati and THAT HOUSE HAS ROOKWOOD POTTERY IN IT HOLY SHOT THATS A HUGE DEAL HERE
GET IT its so cheap for how pretty it is
Man it feels so crazy, I’ve been watching your channel so long that I get to see you guys mature together as I grow up too and now you’re buying a house soon. You both really are so sweet and I wish you all the best! 💕💕
Here in Brasil the value of apartments and houses grow over time, itsy the normal... And it's very rare to see something being demolished completely, most are just modified from the previous house that's was standing before!
This is the opposite energy of those 2 guys who looked at cheap and suspicious houses in east Europe
Also it's interesting that Japan shares "choose your natural disaster" with America.
Wait, can you expand upon the natural disasters thing in the US? I live on the East Coast but I feel ignorant
Is it like:
West coast - earthquakes, drought
Mid west - dust bowl(?), snow storms
Edit: tornadoes lol
South - hurricanes and flooding
East coast - hurricanes, snowstorms
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@@BronzeBellaBria You can add wildfires to the West Coast/Southwest, and tornadoes to the Midwest and parts of the South. Snowstorms are more of a big deal near the Great Lakes for Midwesterners, especially compared to those in the Central/Plains states.
@@BronzeBellaBria west coast is ALWAYS on fire, I live in california and the dry grass grows like crazy, something is always burning
@Kodak idk, I was just guessing because I wasn't sure what she was referring to. I didn't think of the US as having lots of natural disasters before, but her comment got a lot of likes.
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I live in the midwest too (IL) and I always say "let's play beanbags" and everyone just knows what it means lol
I've never heard them called cornhole boards before. Goes to show how different states can be from another.
same. also in IL, and we sometimes just call it "bags". :D
"I dont get rich people" Is such a mood!! Me neither, Rachel, me neither...
All my dreams of having an old traditional house in Japan got insta destroyed when cockroaches were mentioned. My mind makes up the worst-case scenarios and I just can't..
It made me think of this one episode of Yamishibai where the woman was possessed and became a spider except in this case I'm imagining it to be a cockroach.
Oh! I just noticed Jun has his old hair cut now.
For some time now. He looks good either way, but I kinda miss the other hair style ngl
When you were explaining corn hole my little Ohioan soul went OPE 😂
My D&D group just looked up the most expensive houses in our respective cities/countries and it was so much fun lol
Meanwhile in England, I'm torn between "Oh my god why is that so expensive in Japan it's tiny" and "oh my gOD WHY ARE AMERICAN HOUSES SO BIG FOR SO LITTLE" 😂
Easy: stolen land
@@sarasthoughts pfft 😂 I mean, you're not wrong. Part of it is also that England is tiny and very pressed for space, but not as tiny and pressed for space as Japan, so I'm just astounded either way xD
Depends where you are in the US. One house will be $400,000 in one place and $80,000 in another
Rachel showing us those huge American houses
*Confused non-American noises*
In my mind I was just thinking "It's free real estate"
I'm so happy to see you both happy and healthy! Sending love from Canada :)
I do this all the time! I live in Dublin, Ireland and the house prices here are very high. Honestly the quality or age of the build has little to do with price here, it's all about location. Prices will range from moderately high to astronomical. It's a very disheartening situation at the minute here. People are having to live at home into their 30s if they ever want to be able to afford to buy a house because rent is not controlled and is so so expensive. I know people who pay much more in rent per month than they would on a mortgage but because they can't get that initial step onto the property ladder they can't get out of renting. The homeless crisis here is really awful too. Things need to change but our government is doing so little, they just don't care about lower income people and families 😞
Rachel I live in Cincinnati!!!! I love watching your videos! Awesome to see a fellow cincy person on here!
I really love looking at houses especially the interiors. Thats why i really love watching house tours on youtube. I also have several moodboards full with awesome interior in my pinterest.. they’re just so satisfying and inspiring to look at..
Rachel: let's look at a million dollar house.
Me who has never lived outside of the SF bay area: It's only gonna be like a one bedroom home
Rachel: It's five bedrooms and theres a literal fountain in the living room!
Me: What the f!...
Omg I relate to this so hard. I know SF is really bad, but LA isn’t any better lol.
Toronto area. I can't imagine the amount of zeros attached to that house if it was located here. The cheap american house they looked at would be $800 000 in Toronto at best.
@@lyn3325 Where in Florida? I'm in central Florida. $250k gets you a 2 bedroom half of a duplex. 4 beds with marble flooring is 1 million plus. 1 bedroom efficiency is going for $975 a month for rental rates and to rent a room in a house is $600 plus utilities. The foreclosure down the road is a 2 bedroom, carpet throughout, tiny yard, I bathroom, 1 car garage done in a short sale a year ago for more than $250k. The new owners just replaced the roof, had to rip out flooring, replaced the cracked up driveway.
@@loriyoung653 Median sales price in the Florida Panhandle is $230,000 with an average of $255,000.
@@dennisdegroot7952 That's the panhandle. I am toward the east coast. Our "affordable houses" areas start at $250k and go up.
Canada housing is like american housing the price goes up over time and most people profit on their properties when they sell. I think houses are a bit pricier here than America tho.
Can we just appreciate Rachel's hair and makeup 🧡 and clothes too ofc. You're totally a koi-fish princess haha 🧡
A yes buying a home..... Cries in millennial living in a big capital city.
Living in CA for 3 years I dealt with wild fires, earthquakes, and land slides. In the end you can never be 100% safe so it’s best to go for what you want and just prepare as best you can