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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 70 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Wait until they will discover affordable housing thing.

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait until you find out it is normal to tip your landlord there

https://www.interlinkjapan.com/blog/renting/key-money

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only once in my life have I got my damage deposit back. That is tipping the landlord a lot of money. The time I got it back was in a terrible situation and I had leverage over the parasite.

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They also have security deposits on top of that

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