Expats buy country house for a song

Can still get cheap houses in Japan.

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Anyone know a good vocal coach in Taiwan?

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There’s a reason those country houses are selling for next to nothing.

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US$250,000.

Japanese English teachers doing well?

“They also spent a lot more money than they could have – roughly 250 thousand US dollars – but their 130-year-old home came with about three-quarters of an acre of land, a fully mature garden with a giant Japanese cherry tree, and ancillary buildings such as a “kura,” a type of earthen-walled storehouse.”

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Love the story. I would love something like that.

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HAUNTED?? Japanese samurai committed hara kiri in it? forever roaming the bathroom with a sword now?

This guy made a bunch of really interesting youtube videos documenting the process after he bought an abandoned house in Ibaraki:

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