Side quest of 112x10g coins finally completed...
Took me almost a year of daily SIP (1K/day). Started it last August, finally completed...
This is not an investment, this is just something I wanted to do... For diwali, Have 101 coins in a kalash. (remaining 11 are buffer for future, lost/damaged/etc).
The power of compounding and investing in boring things.
Pretty much all of my money is in Gold + Index funds (Both India and US).
Have a small piece of land in Bangalore at about 40 lacs...
That's all.
From Psyho on 𝕏: Original: "pictured: mathematicians furiously working to prove theorems in 2026": https://x.com/FakePsyho/status/2083150354862977197
For context, I just bought a new home, I want to do small scale grah pravesh puja, is it possible to get it done here? Anyone have done it in the past?
Any reference will be appreciated. Thank you.
It might not be a big thing for many people here, but me as a 28yo guy, I feel ecstatic to navigate through foreign legalities and processes, secure a super cheap loan and now I have an address which I can call mine, permanently. The only downside is that I really don't have anyone to share this with 🥀... So, sharing with random internet strangers who are also residents of Japan...
Upto 3 months -> 10,000 JPY
1 year -> 33,000 JPY (27,000 JPY online)
5 years -> 75,000 JPY (65,000 JPY online)
PR -> The low low fees of only 200,000 JPY.
Source - https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260703_14/
So, for context, I recently got my Japanese PR which made me eligible for super cheap (sub 1%) home loans and I am tempted to buy a house, my EMI will be cheaper than the rent which I pay currently. But at the same time, I'm always under split mind that what if I decide to go back to India, then this will be a hassle to manage or to sell (properties here don't appreciate much in value).
So, turning to the community for if you want to share your experiences. At what stage of life (or at what moment) did you decide to sign that sale deed?
I wish I could move my bed next to it.
I'm looking for any community / hobby group here in Tokyo, I've tried meetups and all, but I am really longing to be able to converse in Hindi with people. If there is any, please share.
Hey fellow NRIs,
I have achieved a small milestone which I've been aiming for since a really long time, specially with all the changes with respect to PR rules happening (not just Japan, but in many countries, I got to know from the news). Took me years of waiting and hoping nothing goes wrong with my application and finally it is here... Now I am free to do whatever I want in this country and it is not related to my Job and employer anymore...
Today when it arrived, I realized, I had nobody along my side to share it with 🥀... And so, I am sharing this with the r/nri community.
Next stop. Naturalization....
My homelab servers hosts many sites and apps but all of them route through 1 subdomain, that particular subdomain has the A record for the IP address of my homelab and others are just CNAME pointers to that subdomain... Internally then traefik would reverse proxy based on the request for each site and all.
For quite a few years, I just showed a static "OK" text on that page to quickly check uptime and all. I was bored and had some free time and Claude limits, so spun up a fake AF welcome page for IIS to show on the entrypoint page.
I have baked it into a ready to use docker container, for anyone wanting to use this - https://github.com/aayusharyan/fake-iis - (A star would be appreciated)
If you have any other thing that you use as welcome page to your public facing site, pleaase share, I would also see.
All of this at no additional cost. My only regret is not having this upgrade done earlier. I waster almost 3 years with slow internet... Now I can download my Linux ISOs more quickly.
BTW, what do you folks do with extra bandwidth?
Hey all,
I am in a split here.. Obviously not asking the internet for what to do as situations vary from person to person. But just generally sharing things and checking perspectives...
Backstory, I, 28M, moved to Japan in 2022 with the hopes of getting Naturalized and living here... But then about 2 years ago, I met a college friend living in India and we immediately connected. That kind of connection I never expreienced in my whole life... The plan was she would come to Japan after some time... But with change of events, that is no longer possible.
Now, I am in a split. Should I go back or should I stay here... We tried LDR but it's not that helpful... Staying here would definitely help towards the long term plan, you know, buy a house. build assets, FIRE... But with a place like Japan were we don't really have many Indians around. It feels empty, specially now.
All of this, plus the new change of requirements for Naturalization (5y -> 10y residency)... The job uncertainity in India... (Here at least the Social security is good). Then the state of affairs, like weather, politics, daily life struggles back home.
I am at a junction of life where whatever I choose, I will be loosing something meaningful. (:
