imagine having a bedroom couch, mind blown (okay not exactly, but I'm pretty sure even my wealthiest friends/family don't have a whole couch in their bedrooms, maybe a chair or bench...)
my dumb ass would probably sleep on it every night. I don't know what it is, I don't sleep well on couches, but it is 10x easier to fall asleep on them
The worst part is my city is pretty clean for the US lol. But yeah snow is just unavoidable if the climate is right for it, everything's getting a bit wet at least. (unless you are a bougie MFer with indoor parking and snow removal service and basically go from house to car to office without stepping foot outside, which some people do.)
And besides a few times a year to clear grime and rotten leaves and dirt and keep the storm drains flowing, the streets don't really get actively cleaned here except by random passers by, so those accumulate some level of things like broken glass, bits of trash, etc. Dog poop is not a common problem for me, but for people who have dogs and aren't perfect at cleaning up their yards after them its much more common.
I don't know what level of street cleaning other countries have, or whether they just have a more conscientious populace, but yeah parts of the US are filthy
christ, yeah... involuntary neet. absolutely ridiculous the stuff they put people through just for having previously done time
bed is different from couch tho
yeah. I see people do it in the summer (and lightly judge them for it) but it just straight up doesn't work in winter
I'm surprised more public facilities (schools, offices, etc) don't have facilities to change into more indoor appropriate footwear though. Nobody wants to clean salty slush off their floors every day at home by tracking that in but we do it every day in public and just let the janitors deal?
I know one or two people who were or are NEETs in the US. Your family doesn't have to be particularly wealthy to do it, but its not as nice sounding the described self-care lifestyle if you have no money, transportation, friends, etc.
One was from a fairly poor family that lucked into a paid off house in a neighborhood that later gentrified, and just stayed at home with their parents until like age 25 not going out a lot and working only one or two short term jobs from age 18-25. Eventually got a more stable job and then a SO and moved out, but since the main cost of living at home was just feeding themselves, it wasn't a huge financial burden on the parents. The house was a hoard and the parents will probably be in dire straits once they can't live unassisted any more but for now they are stable and could still support a kid or two. A childhood of more significant poverty gave them some skills/habits in terms of living very frugally.
The other I would say was more lower middle class (insofar as that means anything), parents both teachers/artists, had a lot of health issues that resulted in intermittent periods of years living the NEET life throughout their 20s, but eventually got their various conditions under control and finished college and is now looking for a job but can't find anything for the past 6+ months.
But that's going by a more conventional conception of a NEET. Honestly the people "idling" the article mentions are probably more likely young white collar professionals with enough savings to live for 6 months or whatever, or that have rich parents, and aren't desperate enough to take some job that's going to treat them like shit and pay like shit. This is temporary for them, not a sustainable lifestyle.
yeah, I mean its not like a moral condemnation exactly, just that as an adult I'm not interested in sexualized high schoolers and am uncomfortable with the extent to which they are used to market to adult men. The cover being a character in just a swimsuit or with her skirt blowing up is at least a bit questionable. Honestly devoid of context maybe I wouldn't take as much issue, but I know how skeevy or worse outright pedophilic anime and manga sometimes are, so I have a hard time giving the benefit of the doubt when I see anything questionable. I definitely didn't get the vibe that ""the animators don't know how to [draw] a booby""
Putting them in a closet rather than under the coats and jackets and stuff sounds strange to me.
I'm not well traveled but in the US, at least the part I'm from, they usually are under the coats... in the coat closet, of which there is usually one by the front door in single family houses
I for some reason assumed this comment chain was about Nichijou. Then Yotsuba&. And now finally I see it's Azumanga daioh. I'm not very bright today.
maybe try one of the two former if you haven't seen them, the humor is seemingly kinda similar (yotsuba& is related to azumanga daioh iirc, spin off or smth) and iirc they're less sexualized than that one.
I get the argument that always putting younger girl characters in skirts is just like, reflecting reality, that's a common uniform, so that shows up even in very nonsexual shows sometimes, but a legit reason I don't watch a lot of anime anymore is because of the way so many go out of their way to draw the fucking underage characters bending over in tiny skirts and such. Its fucking foul. They could portray a realistic skirt length and not be a fucking pervert about it, even if it maybe seems a little short to a foreign audience, but they mostly just don't. Not that american TV is amazing about that sort of thing but its not as pervasive.
if you look up the manga/DVD covers there's definitely some sexualization going on. but I haven't seen the show so idk if that extends too much to the actual content.
I don't wear shoes in the house but I don't think there's much validity around cleanliness
uhhhh
you definitely track in dirt and dust and whatever's on the ground outside (snow, broken glass, dog shit, road salt,), if you wear the same shoes outside and in.
It doesn't necessarily make the person dirtier but it definitely makes the house dirtier IMO. Not by like, a ton, if you clean regularly its probably fine esp if you don't have carpet, but I still am not a huge fan. The "tracking in bits of broken glass" thing actually happened to me recently. Bunch of car break-ins on my street and a few days later I start finding pieces on the ground in my apartment.
depends if you have the experience and confidence to get another comparable job. A lot of people are too timid about stuff like that and end up (sometimes rightly sometimes wrongly) feeling that their choice is between destitution and doing a shitty harmful job. Many would still take the leap, but many would be pained by that decision, especially if there was any ambiguity about how harmful the job was.