:D Well, Tokyo ended up better for me than LA or New York or even downtown Dallas can, just because I was already an obvious outsider, what with the whole not-being-Japanese thing. And nobody really looked at you, so you didn't feel like people were sneering or anything. You just looked at their sticklike bodies and expensive clothes* and carefully styled hair and the magical way they didn't seem to be sweating while sweat poured down your face, and felt like a frog. XD
But hey: Osaka is well known for being a place where people love to eat - it was populated with merchants in earlier centuries, and thanks to sumptuary laws they couldn't spend money on clothes or other forms of tangible showiness, so instead they specialized in food and parties. And yes, the Osakans were definitely more well-padded than the Tokyoites. XD
* Although there is a seriously unfortunate tendency for leggings with dresses, of the sort that the Fug Girls hate with a passion. I could feel superior to that. XD
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Date: 2007-10-01 02:49 am (UTC)But hey: Osaka is well known for being a place where people love to eat - it was populated with merchants in earlier centuries, and thanks to sumptuary laws they couldn't spend money on clothes or other forms of tangible showiness, so instead they specialized in food and parties. And yes, the Osakans were definitely more well-padded than the Tokyoites. XD
* Although there is a seriously unfortunate tendency for leggings with dresses, of the sort that the Fug Girls hate with a passion. I could feel superior to that. XD