Its funny the US is saved from all this by the immigrants it hates.
The rest of us have 20 years to invent robots that can replace workers... At least people have saved for their retirement here so its not going to destroy the budget.
Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old
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#2270 year olds wouldn't be so decrepit if it weren't for the lifetime of smoking.
Don't forget that drinking milk is actually bad for your bones.
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#23Its funny the US is saved from all this by the immigrants it hates. The rest of us have 20 years to invent robots that can replace workers... At least people have saved for their retirement here so its not going to destroy the budget.
At least Japan has reasonable social housing and delivery services for them. The problem is their kids don't seem to visit or care. This exists in America it's just in trailer parks in declining interior towns.
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#24In everything from technology to culture to aging, Japan seems to be a portent for things yet to happen in the west. We tend to view suburbs as these static places that serve a particular purpose for primarily families and where nothing changes. But in fact suburbs are starting to transform into de facto retirement communities as boomers exit the workforce, due in large part to incentives from certain laws that keep…
Article on school enrollment in Cupertino
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#25In everything from technology to culture to aging, Japan seems to be a portent for things yet to happen in the west. We tend to view suburbs as these static places that serve a particular purpose for primarily families and where nothing changes. But in fact suburbs are starting to transform into de facto retirement communities as boomers exit the workforce, due in large part to incentives from certain laws that keep…
Your comment made me think of how astonished I was at the numbers of elderly in the South Bay when I relocated here. You'd think those folks would have cashed out and moved to a tax friendly state with better weather, but for some reason they've stayed put.
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#26In everything from technology to culture to aging, Japan seems to be a portent for things yet to happen in the west. We tend to view suburbs as these static places that serve a particular purpose for primarily families and where nothing changes. But in fact suburbs are starting to transform into de facto retirement communities as boomers exit the workforce, due in large part to incentives from certain laws that keep…
Your comment made me think of how astonished I was at the numbers of elderly in the South Bay when I relocated here. You'd think those folks would have cashed out and moved to a tax friendly state with better weather, but for some reason they've stayed put.
They have stayed put because there is no where with better weather
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#27Really interesting article. > ... it also set strict requirements for younger people who lived there: if your income exceeded a certain threshold, you would be evicted. If you refused, you were charged rent – at potentially up to twice the market rate, depending on your income. The goal was to make public housing a safety net for elderly, low-income and socially vulnerable people. The effect, however, has been to mak…
I have also seen this in public housing in Hong Kong. Government built housing for families in the 70s. Children move out. The remaining residents turn grey. The residents in the housing complex are aging along with the buildings.
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#28Several of the examples in the article hinted at familial estrangement, which makes things much worse. I lived in Taiwan, which also has a stagnant birth rate (only 181,606 births last year, https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3611847 ) and a decades-long trend for young people to migrate to the large cities, or go to China to try their fortunes there. But there is also a strong tradition of multi-generational hous…
I don't know how the Taiwanese system works, but there are government programs to bring foreign nurses to Japan.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/06/19/japan-to-directly-recruit-...
There is however strong criticism about the strict immigration requirements, e.g. learning supposedly high level Japanese in only a few years. This allegedly leads to nurses only staying in Japan temporarily, leaving, then going through the same program again. This then apparently bars them from benefits that Japanese citizens would have, although they stay in Japan for years.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment made me think of how astonished I was at the numbers of elderly in the South Bay when I relocated here. You'd think those folks would have cashed out and moved to a tax friendly state with better weather, but for some reason they've stayed put.
They have stayed put because there is no where with better weather
If they move just a state over, the average temps are over 100 degrees during the day. There are other issues with the heat like an elderly lady died because the power company turned her power off for being $51 behind. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/aps-cut-power-heat-cust...
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#30In everything from technology to culture to aging, Japan seems to be a portent for things yet to happen in the west. We tend to view suburbs as these static places that serve a particular purpose for primarily families and where nothing changes. But in fact suburbs are starting to transform into de facto retirement communities as boomers exit the workforce, due in large part to incentives from certain laws that keep…
What??? I'm from Cupertino. Haven't been back in ages but I had no idea this was going on. Do you have a source? not that I don't believe you, but I would be interested in learning more.