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fluffyhamster
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Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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This is going to sound really dumb but here it goes: What happens if Barry Abroad runs out of his meagre savings and doesn't have enough money to return home? Could it be conceivable that a westerner could be homeless in Japan?
The reason that I am asking is I don't think I have ever encountered a former English teacher living out on the street. I am assuming he would be able to get help from a Consulate. It would be an embarrassing situation though.
I wish him the best but he seems to be a in cycle and I hope he can break it. |
TokyoLiz answered or anticipated the repatriation question already (see the link quoted at the top of page 2). Though I'd imagine that returning to the US could be a case of from the frying pan to the fire... |
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Maitoshi
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Location: 何処でも
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| After the whole Brexit thing, is there a big difference between returning to the US and returning to the UK, Fluffy? |
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fluffyhamster
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| The great thing about returning to the UK is that one doesn't have to dive for cover and make for the Commando-style armory every time a car backfires. Other than that I doubt there is much in it though. |
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TokyoLiz
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| TokyoLiz answered or anticipated the repatriation question already (see the link quoted at the top of page 2).Wink |
You're welcome 
There was a destitute American living in Miyashita Park back in 2004-2005. IIRC, he had come over to work as an "English teacher". I talked to him once. He had an obsession with protesting against the use of waribashi. His talk was a bit incoherent. He appeared to have mental health problems.
FWIW, here's an article that has info about consular resources abroad -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/expat-money/10820465/Down-and-out-abroad-There-are-places-to-turn.html |
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Maitoshi
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| fluffyhamster wrote: |
| The great thing about returning to the UK is that one doesn't have to dive for cover and make for the Commando-style armory every time a car backfires. Other than that I doubt there is much in it though. |
Too right! |
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murray1978
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| It sounds like he is heading back to China. He just posted an update. I wish him all the best and hopefully he can do well over there. |
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victory7
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| A few poster keep mentioning Ryan Boundless. Is he a teacher in Japan as well? |
https://www.youtube.com/user/japanascope/videos
Ryan Boundless is now retired in Pattaya, Thailand. He was pretty miserable in Japan and so, after about 16 years in Osaka, he decided to leave.
I imagine that he'll return at some point. He won't want to lose his permanent residency. |
Frankly, who cares about this middle aged misfit griping and moaning like somebody who is fresh out of high school instead of somebody who should know about life now? 
Maybe you are the said, sad annoying Ryan. No, he isn't 'retired' in Thailand - he's doing the desperado act of living there on a tourist visa and coming in and out of the country to keep staying there. That is a lottery at the best of times and yet he is playing it as a much older man than young Barry.
And if Japan is giving or has given permanent residency to such people, I'd say that's why it's getting harder to obtain permanent residency. I know a teacher who has lived for 10 years straight in Japan, speaks the language fluently, took all the tests, and has made an honest living for a decade. He was turned down for PR.
No, this is not me - I don't want PR in a country that makes good people like that jump through hoops and turns them down while people who hook up with Japanese nationals for this purpose (to lesser or greater extents) have the luxury of zipping in and out of Japan all the while whining about it.
Even Barry is Ryan 'Boundless'" superior. |
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