I owned two VW Golfs when I lived in the US twenty years ago. Sold them both when I moved to Japan and haven't owned a car since. Saved a huge amount of money, time, and aggravation.

Thats interesting. I have family in Japan and other family that lives here but are Japanese. Japan sounds awesome.

Japan is a very good place to live in some ways, while in other ways I'll probably never feel completely used to it.

But I reserve the word awesome for a place like Tony Stark's Malibu mansion.

Ummm, yes. We can definitely reserve "awesome" for that.