少なくともこの待ちに住んでいれば通勤通学は楽だ。
Living in a big city has other side effects. It makes one feel very exhausted. In Tokyo, there are so many people that it’s sometimes impossible not to bump into other people. Many places are crowded and it just takes a long time to do anything and go anywhere. One can have many kinds of jobs compared to life in a small city, but the company has more applicants and to beat them, you have to work very hard. In many cases, you need to work over time. Living in a convenient location is also quite expensive. With a normal salary, one may not be able to live near their company and have to take the commuter trains since the local rent is very expensive and basically, a lot of people in Tokyo are short on time and constantly exhausted. Many people look tired riding on the commuting train. Most boyfriends and girlfriends only meet once a week or so, if they are working. Another negative side of living in a big city is that it can be dirty. More people equates to more trash and junk. Tokyo has a big population and it also has a huge mess to deal with. While I was living in Tokyo, I always suffered from fatigue. Later, I found out that there was dust in the air that I was allergic to. After I moved to Wonderland from Tokyo, my tiredness was suddenly gone. Also, I had a problem with wearing contacts in Tokyo, but after I came over to Wonderland, that problem was also gone. Tokyo is simply not that clean at all. The good thing about this situation or the difference between my hometown and Wonderland is, “Excitement.” Wonderland is not a big city and it could have been a boring city to me, but since I am a foreigner in this city, this helps add “excitement” to my feeling. That’s why I love living in Wonderland.
2008年5月1日木曜日
2008年4月30日水曜日
大都市と小さな都市 2
少なくともこの州ではファションを気にしなくてもよい。自分にとっては大変楽なことである。
Living in a big city like Tokyo was very exciting. It always has new restaurants to visit, new food to taste, new department stores for shopping, new amusement parks, and everything else one can imagine. There are always concerts for popular musicians and singers. There are also many movie selections. Weekly entertainment magazines are filled with information about these activities. Several years ago, Tokyo even had an artificial ski dome. The restaurants are open late, and many of them are open 24 hours. Sometimes one might have difficulty deciding among the many choices. Rarely does one feel that there is nothing to do. Conversely, living in a small city or town is a completely different story. The choices are limited in terms of what one can do. The smaller city usually only has things that were highly popular a short while ago in Tokyo. Lately, this situation is changing a bit and some pop-culture items are arriving earlier, but there is still a time lag. There are some concerts for musicians that were once quite popular, but not now. To attend a concert by a currently popular musician is a very rare opportunity. The weekly event magazine is really thin and choosing a restaurant is often difficult because of the low selection. A resident from a larger town also has a different fashion look and style. There are more fashionable people in big cities. They have the latest clothes, hairstyle, and accessories. Sometimes, just watching people walking in Tokyo is really fun. Often, I will see “goofy looking” people in a small town. According to population statistics, most people in Tokyo were not born and raised there. They moved into Tokyo somewhere in the middle of their life, so they should look the same. Why one might ask, is this the case? This is possibly due to both inspiration and imitation. You see some one dressed fashionably and get inspired and someone else sees you and also gets inspired. As a matter of fact, I don’t care about what to wear in Wonderland, but when I go to Tokyo, I am forced to care about what to wear. There is much more social pressure to try and “fit-in” by being cool and wearing fashionable clothing.
Living in a big city like Tokyo was very exciting. It always has new restaurants to visit, new food to taste, new department stores for shopping, new amusement parks, and everything else one can imagine. There are always concerts for popular musicians and singers. There are also many movie selections. Weekly entertainment magazines are filled with information about these activities. Several years ago, Tokyo even had an artificial ski dome. The restaurants are open late, and many of them are open 24 hours. Sometimes one might have difficulty deciding among the many choices. Rarely does one feel that there is nothing to do. Conversely, living in a small city or town is a completely different story. The choices are limited in terms of what one can do. The smaller city usually only has things that were highly popular a short while ago in Tokyo. Lately, this situation is changing a bit and some pop-culture items are arriving earlier, but there is still a time lag. There are some concerts for musicians that were once quite popular, but not now. To attend a concert by a currently popular musician is a very rare opportunity. The weekly event magazine is really thin and choosing a restaurant is often difficult because of the low selection. A resident from a larger town also has a different fashion look and style. There are more fashionable people in big cities. They have the latest clothes, hairstyle, and accessories. Sometimes, just watching people walking in Tokyo is really fun. Often, I will see “goofy looking” people in a small town. According to population statistics, most people in Tokyo were not born and raised there. They moved into Tokyo somewhere in the middle of their life, so they should look the same. Why one might ask, is this the case? This is possibly due to both inspiration and imitation. You see some one dressed fashionably and get inspired and someone else sees you and also gets inspired. As a matter of fact, I don’t care about what to wear in Wonderland, but when I go to Tokyo, I am forced to care about what to wear. There is much more social pressure to try and “fit-in” by being cool and wearing fashionable clothing.
2008年4月29日火曜日
大都市と小さな都市
米リカ合衆国にはすばらしい国立公園がたくさんある
To me, living in a big city is “exciting” and living in a small city is “boring.” My hometown has pleasant mountains and a nice-looking ocean. It’s truly a beautiful city. To me, living in a big city is “dirty” and living in a small city is “beautiful.” In a sense, my family was quite conservative. There is an older, traditional way of thinking in Japan. My parents seemed to think that the oldest brother is #1 in everything and I didn’t like that way of thinking. I wanted to become very independent. I wanted to get away from my parents. I left my hometown at age 18 to move to Tokyo. At age 28, I left Tokyo for the Komerica. I felt like I had come a long way, but after several years I realized that Wonderland is a similar city to my hometown. I was trying to get away from my hometown and I traveled all the way to the other side of Japan on the earth, but the final destination was very similar to my hometown. I was born and raised in a small city with a population of approximately 300 thousand. The population of Tokyo was around 10 million. Compared to Tokyo, I lived in a really small city. Most of the things I saw on TV were focused mainly on things happening in Tokyo. Tokyo seemed to have everything I wanted in life and I grew up longing to live in Tokyo. Right after I graduated from high school, I made the change and decided to move to Tokyo and start enjoying the big city lifestyle.
To me, living in a big city is “exciting” and living in a small city is “boring.” My hometown has pleasant mountains and a nice-looking ocean. It’s truly a beautiful city. To me, living in a big city is “dirty” and living in a small city is “beautiful.” In a sense, my family was quite conservative. There is an older, traditional way of thinking in Japan. My parents seemed to think that the oldest brother is #1 in everything and I didn’t like that way of thinking. I wanted to become very independent. I wanted to get away from my parents. I left my hometown at age 18 to move to Tokyo. At age 28, I left Tokyo for the Komerica. I felt like I had come a long way, but after several years I realized that Wonderland is a similar city to my hometown. I was trying to get away from my hometown and I traveled all the way to the other side of Japan on the earth, but the final destination was very similar to my hometown. I was born and raised in a small city with a population of approximately 300 thousand. The population of Tokyo was around 10 million. Compared to Tokyo, I lived in a really small city. Most of the things I saw on TV were focused mainly on things happening in Tokyo. Tokyo seemed to have everything I wanted in life and I grew up longing to live in Tokyo. Right after I graduated from high school, I made the change and decided to move to Tokyo and start enjoying the big city lifestyle.
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