In 2022 she acquired a free abandoned house on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands.
She doesn't think it's smart for foreigners to jump into homeownership in the Japanese countryside.
I had made assumptions after watching HGTV-inspired YouTube videos about abandoned houses in Japan, but it's not necessarily realistic.
I personally don't think that it's a good idea for foreign people to jump into homeownership in the Japanese countryside right away.
For someone like me who's only lived in large cities in America, to go to the Japanese countryside is an even bigger cultural shift.
Persons:
Bethany, Bitsii, Nakamura, I'm, Maigo Mika, Bethany Nakamura, Banks, would've, It's, there's, homeownership, it's
Organizations:
Service, HGTV
Locations:
Japan, Shikoku, Wall, Silicon, America, New York