That's true but it's not like I don't need to feel with those types of issues back at home. Like, how much different is renting an apartment between Paris and London? Once you get into the groove of actually living somewhere, don't you just realize it's the same as everywhere else? It's the special stuff that makes a difference.
>Like, how much different is renting an apartment between Paris and London?
I don't know, but from personal experience, renting and living in an apartment in Tokyo is very, very different from renting an apartment in America.
>Once you get into the groove of actually living somewhere, don't you just realize it's the same as everywhere else?
No, not at all. Different places are extremely different. There's a reason people move emigrate to other countries. I don't know how you got this idea unless you've never even traveled anywhere else. Maybe I don't understand you correctly.
Anyway, if you're just a tourist somewhere, you might not even care what it's like to live in a place; that's probably not why you're there. But it does mean you have a very different experience there than you would as a long-term resident, and it's quite likely very, very different from your experience as a resident back home.
I can't do France and the UK, but I can do Germany and the UK. There's definitely similarities, but there's a lot of differences as well, and the differences are often important. For example, the longer I rent in Germany, the safer I am against being forced out or having my rent arbitrarily raised. That is not true in the UK, where there is very little protection for renters. The types of apartment one can get in the UK and in Germany differ significantly, in everything from the quality of materials to the design of the neighbourhood.
This means that things that will be a significant issue for a tenant in one location will be irrelevant in another location and vice versa. Understanding the issues on the ground usually requires living in that place for a significant amount of time.
