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> You can't really get high standards for low costs.

I agree but here they're also expensive, which, in my view, is a symptom of the corruption and lack of a free market.

> ugly is subjective so I won't touch on that.

Again I agree, but if you're into industrial estates with lots of concrete and overhead wires galore, then Japan is the place for you. I'm sure someone likes it, maybe the brutalists who made the ugliest parts of my country (the UK) after the war.



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