[Aeolun]

Indeed. You could easily find places for $50000 or even less if you wanted to.

The problem is any job I’ve ever had is in Tokyo.

[jbay808]

Good point. It does depend on the field though.

For software, there's probably not a lot of other options. For mechanical engineering there's a lot of interesting work all over the country.

[Aeolun]

Should have gone with my second choice of career then :P

Not much work there without fluent Japanese though, so I guess it turned out alright. I’ll just have to deal with houses costing a small fortune.