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Welcome to Kevin Nicholson's Room Podcast!
Hey guys, how's it going?
Alright, this is from Aoi Jasmine-san.
Hello, Kevin-san and Yama-chan.
This is my first message to the K.E.R. podcast.
I'd love to hear you talk about life in London
I'm 28 years old and I've never been abroad before for various reasons.
If you were moving to London for the long term, what would you do in your first week?
Thank you so much for reading.
London, huh?
Yeah. So, if the question was, if you were moving to London for the long term, what would you do in your first week?
I'd go to a Premier League match on the weekend, I'd go to a Champions League match in the week, and then I'd go to the pub and just see and talk about football and everything.
That's what I'd do.
Would you do that?
Well, I mean, it's a correct answer for you, obviously.
Yes.
I would go to the Shiak show and do my Zhu Minqiao, and then go to my driver's license and change my address, and then go to the internet and change my address on the credit card, insurance, hokenshow, whatever insurance they have.
That is what I would do.
You're a very grown up gentleman.
Hey, you have your opinions?
Yes.
I feel like that's valid, but that's what I would do.
Yeah, you're a very grown ass gentleman.
But yeah, I mean, you would love that.
No, I mean, honestly, I didn't think about those things at all.
The fact that we all need to do those paper books and everything before everything else, I didn't think about it at all.
I mean, your love for soccer is just way out there, so I understand.
But I think I can find Thursday, I think I will.
Thursday you go there?
To City Hall?
Yes, City Hall, just do something.
Do something?
Or is your residential area the place where you are right now?
Yes.
Thank God.
Honestly, you're very good at those things, right?
I love those things, actually.
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You love those things?
I actually love those things.
I can't love them.
I understand how you feel, man.
That's why I'm here.
Talk to me whenever.
I'll be your support.
Yeah, I just can't love them.
I just can't love those.
Jim Tetsuzuki's?
Yeah.
First of all, I don't like those paper works.
It needs very precise things.
Oh, I have one thing that I need you to consult me.
Okay, what do you need?
I'll talk to you later.
And secondly, I don't like the City Halls.
I mean, I understand.
What is it about the City Halls that you don't like?
The Shiak Shows, right?
It's very, very not efficient.
I understand.
And same as the tax thing.
I have a reason to...
I needed to go to the office.
The tax office.
And then, firstly, it wasn't very efficient.
The system wasn't very smooth and everything.
And the people working at those places,
they were very not helping.
I understand.
I understand.
That's what I don't...
That doesn't make me want to help.
But look, there's a way to work around it.
But look, there's a way to work around all of that.
Oh, what's that?
So, if you don't like the City Hall,
there's a lot of ways to not go to the City Hall.
Oh, okay.
You can mail them the documents,
and then they'll do it for you.
Or there's like online tetsuzuki, right?
Yeah, yeah.
You should do that.
Right, right, right.
It's true.
Right?
With the My Number card,
it's pretty easy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, the things that I can do online,
I prefer doing that.
Yeah, yeah.
But there are some times that you need to go to the office.
True.
And every time I go to the office,
the offices...
Are you talking about the
zei kankei no people
or like the shiryakusho kankei?
Everyone.
Every one of them.
Every one of those places.
Okay, okay.
You know.
I understand.
They're not making money from me.
So there's no reason
for them to be very, very helpful
to me, I guess.
Because they just get paid
from the apartment.
Oh, yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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It's like
I don't want to do that
and they don't want to do that.
Then who wants that?
It's just
I lose every passion.
Wait, wait.
What kind of complicated things
are you trying to do at the shiryakusho?
I don't know.
Anything.
Anything?
It's like, you know.
Are people that difficult?
You just turn in the paper
and then you just wait
and then they'll give you the paper
and you're done.
Are you talking about troubles?
Not troubles.
Just casual shit?
Just usual, you know, those things.
Okay, okay.
It's like, you know.
It's not service.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
I wonder what it's like in London, you know.
Yeah.
If Japan's like that,
I wonder what overseas are like.
Right.
I know France.
It's terrible.
I can only imagine.
There's a short movie
or movie
of one
I think that was Japanese lady
but Asian lady
tries to
change the country
and start living in France.
And she needs to do those
like, paperwork and everything
immigrants and everything.
And the movie is about
the procedure and the situation
and the days that she
That it took for her files
to actually get
accepted.
Terrible.
I can only imagine.
Yeah.
Especially those like
society
not very strong.
Like those
immigrants.
You know.
Especially, I guess.
They don't kind of
care that much.
I see.
I don't know about London, though.
Yeah.
Maybe they're very polite, maybe.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Yeah.
I can't speak for London.
I don't know.
What about America?
America? I mean, I don't know.
I don't know, man.
I don't think I should.
I'm sure you can imagine.
It's not great.
Especially health care.
The health care shit is crazy.
There was a video that went viral.
Just like the movie that you talked about.
This doctor
trying to
get the health care insurance
for their patient and they have to
go through all this shit
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and get denied and then like
shit, shit.
Terrible.
But, you know, I hear a lot of the foreigners
coming into Japan
when they're moving into Japan.
Their complaint is the documentation
which is way too complicated.
You know.
They're not talking about
the people being mad.
They're talking about
they're very strict with the documentation.
If you make one mistake,
you can't just cross it out.
You have to do a double cross
and then a stamp on top
or maybe do a redo
on the form.
If you're not physically there.
If you sent the form,
make another one.
Crazy is what they say.
I understand that.
But we've all, you know,
Japanese have come accustomed to it.
Yeah.
So maybe we're lucky then.
Yeah.
I feel like it's better than
any other countries.
I don't know though.
Even though
they're not that helpful.
Still, right?
Still.
They're very
fair
in a word.
OK.
In terms of living in London,
I don't remember living in London.
I lived there before
but I was too small.
How old were you?
I don't know.
Several years after I was born, man.
I don't even remember.
I don't remember.
Yeah.
The only memory I have
of London is at home.
I was hiding under a desk
with my sister
because we were playing.
And that's it.
That's the only memory I have of London.
That's it.
The one you talked about
when we went to London, right?
Oh, yeah.
The stairs.
I was playing around there.
You should go and see the football game.
I mean, that's actually a good thing to do, right?
And then just go to the pub and just get drunk
and just don't do those paperwork and everything.
Oh, no.
Do the paperwork.
Do the paperwork.
First thing to do, do the paperwork.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
