Here in Germany cars are getting bigger and bigger, almost 50 % of newly registered cars are SUVs that weigh more than 2 tons. They clog up cities like Berlin and take more and more space. They're also completely useless as no one actually needs a 4x4 or extra-elevated car, it's pure marketing and ego stroking.
Japanese cities and places like Okinawa use public space so much more efficiently, you see tiny cars and Microvans everywhere. For urban settings they're really the perfect choice of vehicle IMHO, so it's quite sad you can't buy them here.
It restricts car width max to 1480mm, it's very hard and not very sense even in Japan. I wish it was expanded to around 1600mm and engine to 1000cc. It should also make it easier to export K-car to overseas.
This is very much achievable around $700 - $1.5k/month, does not include the cost of food itself and supplies.
This is reasonable spending for a household making +$225k if this is the bulk of their "f you" spend kind of budget.
2) "chips" or "wedges" like I could find in Melbourne OZ
3) Effective (real) chipper-shredders for lawn care. The number of times I've tried to rent one and had to hire someone for $200-300 to turn trees on my property into mulch is beyond frustrating. Heck, even if I needed to get training and take a test for a license I would do it. I think the US took a bit of a harsh stance on these devices for common consumers after it was widely publicized that Saddam Hussein used these devices to turn his political dissidents into "fodder".
I ended up with a paper shredder that will shred cardboard, but it's still a pain in the ass to tear up the boxes. I would kill for something like a mulcher than I can just chuck whole boxes into and let it deal with.
I should probably order less stuff online, I know, but the recycling around here sucks. They only pick up recycling every 2 weeks, and the bin is smaller than my trash bin. Despite the fact that I generate a lot more recycleables than I do genuine trash.
https://www.amazon.com/HSM-Profipack-Single-Layer-Converter/...
They can't be much more than a motor and some heavy duty shearing cutting disks, but they are really expensive! There seems to be nothing in the price range between office paper shredders (which require tearing cardboard into small pieces) and industrial shredders (which are designed for extensive heavy duty use, much more than a home owner would need.)
What makes you say that? I don't see any laws about owning these. The good ones are just really expensive. Renting one would probably run you about the price that you mentioned ($200-300).
I've been looking at used ones on craigslist, but haven't found the right one yet.
This guy was great though, he also helped out with my 30th birthday where my friends and I went out to a friend's ranch and just "played" with heavy machinery for a weekend.
2. 8oz Rip Its
3. Toyota Hilux
4. Small but rugged SUVs (RAV4 Adventure and maybe Jeep Cherokee are the only things even close in the U.S.)
5. Tim Tams. They haven't been available since COVID.
Now sure if they are actually rugged or not, but the marketing certainly paints them that way.
The new Bronco looks _nice_. It’s built on the Australian developed Ford Ranger platform. The Ranger is so popular here it’s unseating the Hilux as the top selling vehicle. We don’t get the Bronco locally, though. A lot of people would love one.
The Toyota FJ Cruiser would also fit your bill but it seems like they stopped selling it in the states.
EDIT: I just checked and apparently they DO make a Trailhawk version of the Renegade, so that might fit the bill.
Google apps store does not allow you to buy an app in Japanese from the UK, Amazon.jp requires a different account than amazon.co.uk (which is not the case for amazon.com), Netflix does not provide Japanese subtitles for animes, same for steam, some games are in many languages but not Japanese.
2. Souvlak's (Greek street food)
3. Firecrackers that have small explosive power(They used to sell them here like 20 years ago)
4. Amazon Prime
5. Electric bikes that go faster then 25km/h
6. More second hand old cheap Japanese pickup trucks
1. Weed, to be honest. I'm not a heavy consumer, but I'd appreciate a safe, reliable source.
2. Old Dutch BBQ chips
3. Cheese curds
It's a pale imitation, and no amount of Canadian flags will nake it authentic.
1. Jack Wolfskin Berkeley backpack
2. iFixit repair parts (especially MacBook Pro batteries; fake ones killed 3 logic boards last week)
3. Affordable bicycle lights (white lights cost $20 in NZ, 60€ in France, 100 NTD in Taiwan)
4. Apple laptops with keyboard engravings from other regions (there are many Chinese and Koreans in Auckland, not to mention Russian, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, etc).
Asian vegetables. South Asian, southeast, Asian, east asian, whatever. Bitter gourd, drumsticks, curry leaves, kang kong. I really hate broccoli but it's hard to escape.
Having a maid. While common for the middle class in SEA, US labor laws preclude this. This would also help the majority of needs for the commenter seeking a pre-packaged lifestyle for sale.
Foreign programming. Sometimes I want to watch a shitty cop drama or the news in french without getting the super duper directv package.
Public transportation that runs more frequently than every hour, and fare cards for buses. In Singapore, bus 851 has run every 12 minutes between the north and south of the island for the last 20 years at least. Try getting that level of consistency here.
I'm curious what you mean by this - there are certainly maids in the USA, but if you are envisioning something that our labor laws preclude... you probably have something else in mind when you say that?
The green tea in our supermarket is almost undrinkable.
Why does Google sell stadia here but not pixels? They could just allow shipping from the German store.
I don't understand their strategy of limiting where you can buy a device. It's so incredibly frustrating.
I’ve jumped to iPhones and I don’t think I’m looking back. It’s not WOAH at all, it’s still just a phone, but I haven’t had to compromise or get used to any weirdness.
Someday I hope to have a samurai for a while. There's a fair amount of them out there in my rural area.
I want to import the purifier with pump, but it seems that it's hard to find a product that supports 100V/50Hz power.
2. Vero Mango Lollipops
3. Kanelbullar
-Seafood is very different in tropical countries from temperate countries.. Temperate fish like cod are not usually available in canned/dried form.
-The russian non alcoholic drink "Mors", also birchwater.
-Persimmons
-Cashew Apples
-Exotic citrous like Pomellos
-Durians
I wish I could not be restricted by geography, and freely and conveniently browse everything that's on offer from everywhere in the world, and have it delivered for only a small additional fee, in a weeks time or so.
And in reply to tetris11: Yes, there's grape juice everywhere, but not like this. This wasn't Welch's. If this stuff had been alcoholic, I would have been in trouble...
https://nonalcoholicwinesonline.com/collections/st-julian-sp...
edit: sorry, food...
2. American Chicken Tenders
3. Danish Chocolate (Pålægschokolade)
4. Japanese Ready-to-go Meals in Stores
5. Netherlandish Shrooms
Also probably depending on region but the Costco by me has Toto washlet seat replacements for standard toilets. around $300.
Indonesia
No it doesn't, unless you have a bread oven and a lot of experience. A good recipe is not enough to make a great bread, let alone "beat every bakery in the world".
Sudafed.
Algiers, Algeria.
1. Dual flush toilets
self cleaning cat litter box
2. lawn darts
3. scanners that can receive 824 to 849 MHz and 869 to 894 MHz
4. acetic anhydride
5. phosphorus
6. Moon rocks
7. good pesticides: DDT, diazinon, endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, etc.
8. gasoline cans that work properly (old-style ones)
SDRs can recieve in those ranges.
