Buying a house in the Bay Area is an investment that you should only do if you absolutely believe that there's not a technological bubble and that tech companies in the area will continue to pay the highest salaries in the world for the next 30 years.
> Someone who uses a condom perfectly, each time, every time, still has a 50% lifetime (35 year) chance of having a child.
That statement makes no sense. If the condom is not broken or slips off, there's no chance that a woman is inseminated. Unless the man has magic sperms that can teletransport themselves into a woman's womb.
Perfect use of male condom: 18% chance of conception after 10 years. Typical usage: 86% chance of conception after 10 years.
Even "the pill": 3% chance at conception after 10 years with perfect use. 61% chance of conception with typical usage.
Everyone thinks they use contraception correctly. It may be true for anyone reading this forum, but if you're looking at policy, you have to account for typical usage. Education campaigns can move "typical" closer to "perfect" usage, but IUDs and sterilization are pretty much the only types of birth control that offer more than 50% chance of not conceiving in 10 years.
Perfect use for condoms has a 2% failure rate. Perfect use means the user did nothing wrong, not that the condom was perfect.
0.98 ^ 35 = 0.49, i.e. 51% chance of failure.
Failure here means child conceived. And keep in mind that there is only approximately a 2% chance of having a child from each encounter, so condoms fail a LOT. (20% chance of a child if done at the right time divided by 3 days out of 30 where it's possible.)
Note that the low 2% conception chance is mitigated by looking at a failure rate over a full year, i.e. multiply 2% by the number of encounters in a year.
Don't come to Japan then. Not only they are lazy and not worth the money, but also the tenant has to pay them an extra month of fee every two years, when the contract is renewed.
And if that's not enough, in Japan there's no law that regulates the rental contracts so, every time that someone wants to rent a flat, he has sign a bunch of abusive clauses.
In any case, being a broker must be a good business because Tokyo is full of them.
I am in the same situation as you but what keeps me from going back to Barcelona are not the salaries, but the kind of uninteresting jobs that are offered.
I would go back home for the quality of life, not for the salary. But only if I could join a company that is actually creating something, instead of just using products created by others.
Have you ever considered remote work? I moved to Barcelona to work for a few companies but after a couple of years I wanted different challenges but still to stay here so I looked into remote work and it's the best of both worlds!
I have 2Gbps in Tokyo. Connected by gigabit Ethernet to the router I consistently get over 500Mbps symmetric, but with the wifi i never get over 50/20Mbps. Probably because every single 2.4 channel is occupied by several networks.
A guy who infiltrates into an enemy army base in order to kill soldiers from a foreign country cannot be terrorist.
And a country that drops a bomb from a drone into a wedding party because someone suspects that there may be some enemies among the guests, is obviously practicing terrorism.
