Hot take: My neighbor from Osaka said you never ask about someone's salary there, but here we talk about it all the time.

It made me realize how a simple question about money can be a huge social misstep in one place and a normal Tuesday chat in another, so what's the biggest financial taboo you've run into?

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the_charles3mo ago

Actually, that's a pretty common thing in a lot of Japan, not just Osaka.

jana_hernandez3mo ago

Charles is out here doing the linguistic equivalent of "well, actually" on a map of Japan. Next he'll tell us the sun rises in the east, not just over his house.

tessa3941mo ago

Gotta be honest, I don't think anyone's losing sleep over which side of Japan the sun comes up on. Feels like a lot of energy for something that doesn't really matter.