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Jan 18, 2025

City-Cost feature posts you recommend reading

When I click on the Blog link, I see four "Pick Up" articles, one of them mine, that are a little stale... Which posts in the last 3 months or so are insightful, current, interesting, or helpful? What would you like to see in the "Pick Up"?

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TonetoEdo

TonetoEdo

Living between the Tone and Edo Rivers in Higashi Katsushika area of Chiba Prefecture.

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  • genkidesu

    genkidesu

    on Jan 18

    I really enjoyed your recent travel blog about Minamiboso, it was a good reminder to me to visit places in the off-season for a different, more relaxed atmosphere. I'm always a sucker for travel-related things so that content appeals to me. BigFamJapan wrote a great piece lately about coming around to the idea of second hand stores here (https://www.city-cost.com/blogs/BigfamJapan/G0gYO-shopping_saitama#body). I have really embraced second hand here, too, because things are overall kept in much better condition than second hand items in my home country. I also loved helloalissa's Amazon vs. small business cost comparison (https://www.city-cost.com/blogs/helloalissa/GbNNB-living_shopping_money). I shop a lot on Amazon for the sake of convenience and the assumption it's good value, when that's not always the case.

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  • TonetoEdo

    TonetoEdo

    on Jan 19

    @genkidesu The Minamiboso travelogue part 2 is coming soon! Thanks for reading my blogs. I'm reading your "Things about winter" series. The blog posts remind me to get out of the house to enjoy the winter delights despite the chill. Some posts by @Jtsu and @Ekimsaido are classic blogs that remind me to appreciate life here. I suppose I'm so familiar with my daily life that I take little things for granted. Ekimsaido's Lazy Sunday has a simple and fresh look at life in Japan.

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  • BigfamJapan

    BigfamJapan

    on Feb 10

    I noticed last week they updated them. I'm not sure my toffee apple post is my best, but I know those "Japanese festival food" posts are relatively popular. They need some more new "feature posts" though or to push the feature section down because they've been the same ones since August.

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BigfamJapan

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on May 9