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Hello, please excuse my poor English.

In article <1992Jun15.083138.26856@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp> stevef@csl.sony.co.jp writes:
>I was wondering if anybody has opinion about living in Tsukuba??

  I was living there(1986-1990), and the life in Tsukuba was VERY
confortable.

>It has more space but still close enough to Tokyo to go to bookstore
>or come to town for a weekend.

  That's right, and many people do so.

  But because of the distance from Tokyo, price of the land and houses
became little higher. (Even then, I believe that they are lower than
that of in Ishikawa. I rent an aptmnt with 28,000 yen until 1990, of
course it has unit bath and kitchen. I heard that the average cost of
most singles to the house is 3,500 yen even now.).

>  Most Japanese (in Tokyo) that I ask
>say Tsukuba is not such a nice place to live. Most common words:
>artificial city, no nightlife, boring.

  Um-, some part of that rumor are right.  Fewer bar than KABUKI-CHO
(Shinjuku), fewer disco than ROPPONGI.  But rather more than the west
side of Yokohama City, I think:).  Instead of them, many convinience
stores are there(mostly around Universities and the area of students
living).  Book stores par people are twice or three times than in
Yokohama, large park par people are 100 times than Tokyo, and less
crowded (1/1000!) than Tokyo and Yokohama, I felt.  I do not know that
is because I have not been living in Tokyo.

# Tokyo is exactly artificial city, I think :-)

  Only a weak point of the city, it has no railway nor subway, and
little expensive public traffic(bus or taxi).

>Any stories about Tsukuba?

  Confortable, 2 disco, no life with no car(you're neccessary!), near by
KASUMIGAURA lake(about an hour by car), near by Mt.Tsukuba(about 50
minutes), blue sky, planned city with farm, wide road, number of bar is
balanced with amount of people, 1.5 hours to Tsukuba circuit.

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