does anyone kno info about sapporo?

[yukiko357]

kinnichiwa,

When im older i plan on moving to sapporo japan.I'v googled sapporo information but iv come up short .Does anyone who's been there or live there know about sapporo life and people ......and some other interesting facts(exspensise/apartments etc).I would also want to find out about jobs for gaijins(foreigners) besides begin an english teacher.

domo arigato

[samurai007]

Originally Posted by yukiko357

kinnichiwa,

When im older i plan on moving to sapporo japan.I'v googled sapporo information but iv come up short .Does anyone who's been there or live there know about sapporo life and people ......and some other interesting facts(exspensise/apartments etc).I would also want to find out about jobs for gaijins(foreigners) besides begin an english teacher.

domo arigato

Considering being an English teach accounts for 95% of the jobs for foreigners, and one of the very few jobs in which you don't need to be fluent in Japanese and have special skills or talents, you shouldn't count it out too quickly.

[MMM]

Why do you want to go to Sapporo? I mean, it's a beautiful city, but it sounds like you don't know that much about it.

[Nagoyankee]

Are you sure if you're ready for the long, severe winters in Sapporo or in Hokkaido in general? If that's no problem, Sapporo would be a good place to live in. It's not exactly cheap there as it's a city of a million residents. But rents can be 30-40 % lower there than in Tokyo. Other prices aren't very different, though.

One last note. You may want to know that the economy in Hokkaido and Okinawa is and will almost always be worse than in the rest of Japan. Those are the prefectures with the worst unemployment rate in the country. Both are excellent vacation destinations. No doubt about it. That's why I keep going back to Hokkaido. But to live there might not be the same.