23 May 2026
| #housing
| #japan
We recently built our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. Before deciding to build our home, I run the numbers and concluded that neither owning nor renting was clearly financially superior. (I was happy to see later that much more knowledgeable people arrived to the same conclusion.) We still decided to own our home for non-financial reasons. In this post (and future updates), I’ll track how our financial results compare to if we had continued renting.
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01 Mar 2026
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| #japan
We recently built our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. I already wrote about the process of designing our house, and designing our lighting, and in this post I’ll write about the major design ideas we used for our house.
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11 Feb 2026
| #parenting
We had our first kid 2 years ago and the second baby was born recently. We went to Hungary in both of the last summers, and will be going this summer too. I wrote about our experience the first time, and I will now write about why flying with babies and toddlers gets pretty expensive.
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01 Feb 2026
| #housing
| #japan
We recently bought land and built our home in Tokyo. I wrote about the general design process, and in this post I will write about how we decided our lights. We have moved in 2 months ago, so I will also reflect on how well our ideas are working out so far.
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28 Jan 2026
| #housing
| #money
| #japan
We recently bought land and built our home in Tokyo. I have wrote about the various costs, but in this post I’ll provide the full breakdown on how much our home cost.
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