Hi all,
My partner (soon to be wife) and I are planning to move to Japan around March/April next year. I've just turned 27 and I've been having hesitations about moving to Japan. I've heard successful (from NZ mates) stories and unsuccessful stories (Japanese friends) about their career in Japan. I've got a postgraduate degree in Design/archi and have been working in the field since my last year in uni to present. I cannot speak Japanese yet but I am rushing to learn the language within a year.
I'm currently working as a full time Architectural Interior Designer in NZ and I was wondering if it is worth moving to Japan and if I could possibly have a better working opportunity there? My partner is Japanese and misses her family. I have not lived in Japan before so I have no slightest idea what would happen there and how things work there but all I know is i'll never know unless I try. . But I was hoping someone could share me their experience working in Japan in the same field?
My partner said she wants to eventually move to japan in the future, so I'm also thinking if it's worth going there earlier and try start a career to settle down or maybe go there at a later date and then settle down. The thing is we also plan to have a family. At the moment we are undecided as to where to live. She doesn't mind living here too, although for me, I'm quite bored with NZ unless something very interesting happened to me. We've applied for the residency just in case. It's also impossible to get a house in NZ ($300,000 house are now $1.2M for just an average 4 bedroom house). Also the hard part is, our families are in 2 different places and both of us are very close to them also most of our friends are in Japan.
If it helps, my hobbies are guitars, cars, photography haha.
Would you move to Japan?
My partner (soon to be wife) and I are planning to move to Japan around March/April next year. I've just turned 27 and I've been having hesitations about moving to Japan. I've heard successful (from NZ mates) stories and unsuccessful stories (Japanese friends) about their career in Japan. I've got a postgraduate degree in Design/archi and have been working in the field since my last year in uni to present. I cannot speak Japanese yet but I am rushing to learn the language within a year.
I'm currently working as a full time Architectural Interior Designer in NZ and I was wondering if it is worth moving to Japan and if I could possibly have a better working opportunity there? My partner is Japanese and misses her family. I have not lived in Japan before so I have no slightest idea what would happen there and how things work there but all I know is i'll never know unless I try. . But I was hoping someone could share me their experience working in Japan in the same field?
My partner said she wants to eventually move to japan in the future, so I'm also thinking if it's worth going there earlier and try start a career to settle down or maybe go there at a later date and then settle down. The thing is we also plan to have a family. At the moment we are undecided as to where to live. She doesn't mind living here too, although for me, I'm quite bored with NZ unless something very interesting happened to me. We've applied for the residency just in case. It's also impossible to get a house in NZ ($300,000 house are now $1.2M for just an average 4 bedroom house). Also the hard part is, our families are in 2 different places and both of us are very close to them also most of our friends are in Japan.
If it helps, my hobbies are guitars, cars, photography haha.
Would you move to Japan?
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