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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by Dylan16807 »

b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #174
sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #170

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Did you spend $68 to feed 3 at Popeye's? If not, your comment is pretty irrelevant to this thread.

Dining prices are up to an extraordinary amount compared to pre-COVID. Prices never went back down despite inflation being "reigned in". Being surprised at a $68 bill at Popeyes just expresses you don't have a family to provide for, which is probably the default position of most of the posters on this forum.

> Prices never went back down despite inflation being "reigned in".

A) Dining prices going up that much was way more than inflation.

B) Reigning in inflation doesn't mean prices go back down, it means they stop increasing quickly.

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Post by bobthepanda »

zubiaur wrote: post #245
gabriel-uribe wrote: post #229

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Yep. Counterintuitively, housing in Japan depreciates unlike most of the world

Wonder how it is like in other countries with shrinking populations. Say, Korea. Intuitively, it would make sense for housing prices to decrease when the demand decreases, supply being equal (It's not like housing deteriorates significantly in the short term).

Japan is a bit of an outlier because of earthquake regulations.

There is a history of substantially updating building regulations every time a new record is set for largest earthquake in the modern era; and so if you are buying historical, you are buying a less safe property that could kill you.

The last major earthquake updates to the code were in 2000, so there isn’t a lot of historical housing stock without this confounding factor.

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Post by bpt3 »

jgon wrote: post #278
bpt3 wrote: post #243

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You're welcome to move to one of the many, many places in the US where it's still possible.

That's actually a really great suggestion. It would be great if you could throw together a list of these many, many places and post it here, so we could think about what sort of moves we could make. Thanks in advance!

Large portions of the rust belt, midwest, and deep south for starters.

There are many, many lists of the most affordable cities in the US. I see Buffalo, Dayton, and Wichita on them regularly as specific examples.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by dymk »

jancsika wrote: post #279
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Just checked online. 8pc family meal of spicy white meat with large mash potatoes and gravy, one sweet tea, one purple lemonade, one chilled premium mango lemonade = $41.05 @ 1501 NW 20th St, Miami, FL 33142 Bring-your-own-liquids = $30.38 Either ordering at the counter is criminally expensive, or you were listening to someone…

That 8pc 'family meal' feeds 2 people. The sweet teas don't count as food - they may as well be dumped down the sink.

Feeding a family of four would need 2 of those 8 piece meals, so $60.

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Post by crooked-v »

keiferski wrote: post #99
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

I watch one of those “apartments for rent in Japan” channels and I’m consistently shocked how inexpensive apartments are in lower tier cities / not Tokyo. Like a studio in an inconvenient part of Fukuoka for $200-250 a month. I guess the salaries are lower, but it’s hard to imagine such cheap rent in the equivalent American city.

Part of that is that Japan actually builds housing, while literally every major US metro area has a massive self-inflicted shortage of housing (https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...).

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Post by throw544577 »

chasd00 wrote: post #171
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. That’s $22 per person. Would like to see what they ordered. Not saying I don’t believe it but that’s pretty high. My family of 4 can eat chilfila for that and chikfila is kind of pricey for fast food where Popeyes is pretty much trash.

Popeyes is way tastier. Chick-fil-a is so bland.

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Post by hylaride »

taeric wrote: post #181
keiferski wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watch one of those “apartments for rent in Japan” channels and I’m consistently shocked how inexpensive apartments are in lower tier cities / not Tokyo. Like a studio in an inconvenient part of Fukuoka for $200-250 a month. I guess the salaries are lower, but it’s hard to imagine such cheap rent in the equivalent American city.

I mean... You are looking at a place that is about 250 square feet? There isn't an appetite for offering units that small in the US.

The building codes in most jurisdictions wouldn't even allow such a thing, whether there would be demand for it or not. But the lengths people are willing to go for small apartments in top tier cities (NYC, especially) show that there is be demand in the right situations. Of course, the whole point of living in Manhattan is to not spend time at home.

But there are interesting experiments going on. Where I live (Toronto) has had a huge build-out of small ~4-500sqf bachelors that were hoovered up by flippers and mom-n-pop landlords. At the peak of the boom, they were selling for ridiculous prices ($800K+) and the poor build quality of everything from elevators (of which there often weren't enough, resulting in lineups and long waits) to water pipes that burst meant that savvy prospective owners stay clear.

There's a correction happening, but people don't want to unload their "investments" at below what they cost and since mortgages are recourse people can't just walk away.

In theory there should be demand for these units from the young, corporate owners, 2nd homes in the city, etc. But the prices have just not come down enough to make any of those worthwhile.

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #194
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #61

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> They do have at least one development studio there, Nintendo Software Technology. Oh, interesting! The list of games isn't particularly impressive though, a lot of ports and remakes. Compare that to also-US-based Retro Studios, which isn't considered under Nintendo of America from what I understand.

Retro Studios is a subsidiary of Nintendo, actually! Not sure how it's structured organizationally, but Nintendo does own it.

Yes, but it's not under Nintendo of America, I don't think? That was my point.

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Post by SSLy »

leetrout wrote: post #72
SSLy wrote: post #57

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I am afraid MK World isn't even the best kart racer on NS2. It's Sonic Crossworlds

I'm actually not loving mario kart world. I didn't know the sonic game was a thing so thank you I will check it out.

enjoy!

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Post by jjmarr »

zubiaur wrote: post #245
gabriel-uribe wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Counterintuitively, housing in Japan depreciates unlike most of the world

Wonder how it is like in other countries with shrinking populations. Say, Korea. Intuitively, it would make sense for housing prices to decrease when the demand decreases, supply being equal (It's not like housing deteriorates significantly in the short term).

Japan has stigma towards used houses.
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