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In article <gm1u0jp0g2j3jhamarsfe7d3r8ij93jim9@4ax.com>,
 shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> >In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
> > Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new light 
> >> after a recent visit to Japan.
> >> 
> >> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the U.S. is 
> >> unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun.
> >> 
> >> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA we're 
> >> always 
> >> chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said during his 
> >> monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
> >
> >I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never seen a 
> >city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy people 
> >everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the places I've 
> >been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to get around and 
> >function in if you don't speak the language. I thought at the time that 
> >if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider living in Tokyo for good if I 
> >could.
> 
> But my understanding is you would have a difficult time living there
> because you aren't Japanese. Things like buying a home would be very
> difficult for you. So it really sounds like a great place to visit as
> a foreigner but not so to permanently live as a foreigner. As for the
> cleanliness isn't Singapore another place that's kept exceptionally
> clean but hot and humid.

I forgot to mention, the per capita percentage of attractive women in 
Japan was *much* higher than in the U.S. There were beautiful women 
seemingly everywhere.

Sure, you can find some smokeshows in L.A., but there are a lot more of 
the green-haired, nose-ringed tofu monsters waddling around than the 
BAYWATCH supermodels.

> >Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the last 10 
> >short years was very disheartening.
> 
> Of course LA is going to be disheartening just from all the homeless
> on the streets. 
> 
> >It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, whose 
> >show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across Hollywood Blvd from 
> >the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where 
> >fentanyl addicts stagger around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out 
> >of control, vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies 
> >lying on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence.
> >
> >Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed.