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RE: Random Japan #31 :: Around the Neighborhood
What do you mean nobody buys used houses?! Is there no estate agency to be found in Japan? The ultimate disposable object?? I'm all for fresh starts but this is extreme! Then again, maybe not that extreme: that garage has to have been built around the car!
Love your random photowalks! The best introduction to a place for sure.
There is a used house market, but it is quite small. The general idea is that used houses are dirty, that only poor people want one, that they are nothing but trouble (from a home repair perspective), and that they are entirely undesirable. So nearly all old houses are knocked down as soon as the owner dies or sells. It's crazy and wasteful, but that's how it is. The government has been making talking about making a tiny effort to reverse this in the past few years, but so far they haven't done anything.
Glad you enjoy them :)