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    Thoughts on a 10M salary in Semicon in Nagoya

    @trinity101 Rumor was, EUV would have used so much electricity to the point of overloading the power grid. While Micron requested for an upgrade to their power systems, it was rejected by the local government due to environmental concerns. This was like 5 years ago. I don't know if things...
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    Thoughts on a 10M salary in Semicon in Nagoya

    @toni123 While ASML is without a doubt the leader in lithography, in Japan, I don't know of any EUV lithography machines being installed here. Kioxia's 3DNAND flash doesn't need EUV and I haven't heard of Micron in Hiroshima using EUV either. Rapidus claims to be doing 2nm tech which would...
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    Buying house in Japan

    @michaelthiessen -Used house prices usually are negotiable. New ones not so much, though sometimes developers may lower the price if it has gone through several offering periods and there are still units unsold. -I don't think sellers care about cash since like you said the bank who approved...
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    With the recent BoJ news regarding Rise In Interest Rates: loan variable vs. fixed

    @victoria37 I think this is correct. The rate hike might be something like +0.2% which in that case a floating rate would still be a better deal.
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    Did the prices of real-estate went up over the past 2 years?

    @arcticwind Kind of anecdotal but I heard since the China's evergrande crash, there do seem to be a lot of a Chinese trying to cash in here instead. While a house may be a bit hard to rent but condos near a hot station I can see being in their sights.
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    Did the prices of real-estate went up over the past 2 years?

    @milagrace2018 Tachikawa did have a pretty big price increase in recent times.
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