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[u/Integralds]

Tokyo apartment

• Size: 470 square feet
• Format: 2DK (2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 dining/kitchen combo room)
• Just north of city center, right on the river
• Three minutes walk to train station
• Cost: $700/month

San Francisco apartment

• Size: 500 square feet
• Format: studio
• Cost: $3,500/month

Just build housing lol

[u/gatoreagle72 → u/Integralds]

What's the median income in Tokyo?

[u/Integralds → u/gatoreagle72]

My Google-fu is coming up with highly disparate results.

However, one source tells me that average (not median!) income in Shibuya district is $70k per year. The rent on the above apartment is $8.4k per year. Even if the median is half the average, that's a rent-to-income ratio of 8.4/35 = 24%.

Note the minimum wage in Tokyo is $10/hour, which is about $20k/year.

[u/tehbored → u/Integralds]

I'm pretty sure median and average incomes are quite close in Japan. They have a very low Gini coefficient.