tokabochi
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Gimme options. Was thinking anywhere theres snow or surf. Hokkaido would be great though.
i Like the fact you get a kickback on it too Alas i might have already secured another job. Or at least a decent shout at it. I interviewed for them last summer for a position near Suwa, they really liked me, but just didnt think id fit the elementary curriculum they were pushing at the time. They also have a neat package. I would have gone with them last year easy though. Got a message just a few minutes ago asking for me to pop down and see them in matsumoto. It puts me south Nagano, but you know... it sorta makes hakuba an option for next season
Hold on now. That would take you further away from Mt Granview.
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Sounds like you did not go at the best of times!
If you were limited to that bottom run it would be a nightmare, presumably you got up to the top bowl area at least part of the time?
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I like the way on the Cheese Fondue packet for food type it says
チーズフード
Put a bit of wine in it and it was quite nice actually.
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Cheese Fondue enjoying a bit of culture
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Cheese Fondue with Mt Granview in the background
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The Box this morning, 26th Feb 2013
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Got a 'first' coming up in the next few days.
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The house in the photo you posted, while not particularly beautiful, looks fine to me.
Should I post a photo of one of the zillions of houses in Japan that have their kitchen on the ground floor or something?
I dunno why you keep going on about Tokamachi's snow because you can melt it simply by spraying a bit of water. Unlike higher altitudes, it's not cold enough for the water to freeze
As if further proof were not needed!
(I'm sure glad it's not too cold as well. What could be better, tons of snow and not mad cold?)
While we're keeping on going on about people going on about things, I don't know why you keep on going on about 'connections' to gardens, and all the other stuff you keep on going on about.
You should come over here and do some seminars for the locals to educate them on where they're all going wrong with their homes. I'm sure people would pay you, and they all obviously need educating.
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That's seriously not far off what some of the houses with open spaces below look like!
Not in this region it doesn't.
No one is talking about 'open spaces below' anyway.
For the garden question, here's a house with a garage below from Tokamachi. Its the nicest one for sale on the first real estate place I found. There were less attractive ones on the same site.
I think the only thing this 'proves' is that Tokamachi gets tons more snowfall than Hakuba.
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No. Mostly people dig wells (ido?) and the natural warm water is pumped up from there. The cost after being installed being the electricity cost of the pump, so fairly low running costs. Installing it can set you back 100-200man though.
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After a day of horrid rain yesterday, light snow falling this morning.
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Looking at Yahoo weather is usually a bit like looking at your tea leaves in the bottom of the cup.
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Interesting that. Perhaps there are regional differences.
Must say almost all new places I can think of round here in Tokamachi area, even really big places with decent amounts of land, have 2 or sometimes space/garage area for 3 cars on the ground floor.
Some great big stonkers of houses as well.
If lots of the good people of yukiguni are choosing that, there must be a reason.
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As someone else said muika, you made the mistake of shuning Mt Granview, for sure.
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Trust the snow to fall on the day of the Snow Festival.
It started in the evening yesterday.
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Here is a "housing park" in Nagano, a collection of show houses from big name builders. I think its pretty typical of what the ordinary person will go to see. All of the houses on it are very big, far bigger than most folks who go will ever afford. They usually have big double height spaces, oversized rooms, windows in fancy (read: expensive) arrangements, loads of built-ins, little spaces as home theaters, etc. etc. etc.
http://sbchp.jp/nag-c/index.php
Here's a photo of a model house from Sekisui House.
The ironic one is going to be anyone who could afford that isn't going to build a Sekisui House. That kind of person would get an architect in.
Some smaller companies build more realistically sized model houses. I know the log house companies do, a company called Bess that make Japonesque log houses (actually quite attractive) does, and I think Tama Home do on their own sites. Some builders just take you round other houses they've built, which is probably the most educational.
Looks nice that!
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You're right!
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I don't think Mt Granview is open on weekdays. (?)
March Manoeuvres - the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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Not raining here at the moment, but very windy