How an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New Home

Coming to Japan from Canada (and the crazy housing market that is Vancouver), I was surprised to find out that the average family could afford a brand new house, even in the city of Tokyo. In this video I explore how this is possible.\r
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CORRECTION: The stats I gave for median annual household incomes in the United States and Canada are not quite right. I explain why in this video \r
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By Kzaral - Own work, GFDL, \r
By Kzaral - Own work, GFDL, \r
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By Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) - The fifty-stree stages of Tokaido (one of 53 prints, +2 for start and terminus), Public Domain, \r
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