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Comment by gibagger

6 days ago

haha, makes a lot of sense!.

But then again, take a stroll around a shop-laden street in Japan and you'll see the exact same thing. They just like it that way.

Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.

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socalgal2  6 days ago

> Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.

Only if they are well to do. Most family houses in Japan are crammed full of stuff with very little "design".

  • ccozan  6 days ago

    I was wondered that. Like from movies or documentaries, etc. Very nice, clear, order, minimalistic. Then I was looking to buy a house and I found a site with "almost" abandoned house for sale.

    My God. Everything , everywhre, no design ( haha ), no exceptions. People were actually living there.

    Had a cultural shock.

    • pezezin  6 days ago

      I do live in Japan and good god, I have never seen such messy people anywhere else in the world. The offices of all my Japanese colleagues are piles upon piles of documents and boxes without any kind of order.

      But the cities themselves are like that. There is zero urban planning, just buildings thrown around in impossible non-Euclidean patterns.

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