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They aren't allowed to decide that in other countries, just here, and almost everything that happened as a result of that was bad.

Been to Japan? France? Pretty nice places.

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Aren't those some of the most expensive countries on Earth for housing?

No, housing isn't expensive in Japan, certainly nowhere near how bad it is in US cities. Housing prices are more or less flat in Tokyo over decades, even, because they constantly build more of it. (It's cheap in the rest of the country, but that doesn't mean much because nobody wants to live there and there aren't jobs.)

Not saying it's great; Japanese wages are too low and their landlords are abusive (moving is expensive, you have to pay a lot of "key money", and they're free to discriminate against foreigners). But the housing crisis is an Anglo problem - it's bad in the US/UK/Canada/Australia.

Not sure about France specifically, I was just saying Paris is a nice city.

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