What it's really like21:15 in the full recording
“This is not for you”
The honest answer she gives friends who ask about moving there.
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- MichelleSo I think not every Australian would love Yubari. And I know I've come back, and
- lots of friends have asked me, and one of my friends is also looking for something. She's like,
- I need a coffee shop, and I need this, and I need that. And it's like, this is not for you.
- Not for you. So I think for anything major, we're fifty minutes from Sapporo.
- Which is amazing. There's a Seicomart. There is a coffee shop. There's a sweets shop.
- There's one of those, you know, the Japanese karaoke and beer bar, the izakaya.
- And there is another where they sell the Yubari melons and all the fresh produce, that's still open.
- And then there's this fantastic, they call it a food store, but it's all inside and there's multiple vendors there.
- That was amazing. We ate there every night, and got to know them a bit as well.
Transcribed from the recording. Lightly punctuated for reading.
Yubari does not offer the same number of cafes, shops and entertainment options as a major resort town. For Michelle's family, the appeal was its quiet streets and local community: they come from a small regional town themselves, and on their first walk around they were the only two people on the street, with deer wandering through it.
The town has more than it looks. A convenience store, a coffee shop, a sweets shop, an izakaya, a produce shop selling the famous Yubari melons, and an indoor food hall of small vendors where the family ate every night. At night, lights come on in homes that looked empty by day.
It seems a lot quieter than it actually is.
What this may mean for you
Ask what you need on an ordinary Tuesday, not only what you want during five perfect days of snow.
Could you live outside a major resort?Michelle’s experience, told in her words. Not a cost promise, legal advice or a general claim about risk.