welcome to my new office my very barren empty room hopefully it doesn't echo too much go too much but it's in japan i would show you outside but i don't want to dox myself right away at least after three years after three long years i am finally here oh my god if you saw my video a few months ago where i was ranting about how this attempt to move how difficult it's been at that time i didn't think we were gonna make it even so the fact that i'm here it just feels unbelievable it still hasn't even sunk in yet every time i wake up i'm like where am i why is why is the weather nice i don't get it but everything went super smooth the dogs are they're getting used to being here turns out jet lag is a thing for dogs as well which made transitioning really difficult because they kept waking up super early and but they're doing great and i'm really happy for it we're doing really great as well honestly though first few days was kind of shocking person was like we made it to japan oh we're in japan the we don't speak the language did we just move to another country where you don't speak the language half across the globe in our 30s with no real goal or reason yeah i guess we didn't i guess i should explain why we made this move because it is a bit of an odd one usually when people come here it's for a job or to study and things like that uh we're here mainly i guess you could say is because we really enjoy it here every time i talk about japan people for some reason seem to want to bombard me of well did you know japan is really high this or that or it's not i'm not trying to romanticize this country like it's this perfect thing it's just that we really like it here we feel really comfortable here and we really enjoy it the whole reason of the move is mainly that we want to have different experiences you know you live once and this is something that we wanted to do and that we knew we were able to do and yes it's scary and kind of crazy but i don't think that should stop you and that's our reason the pros of cons of different countries and cities and places it all depends on who you are and what you value and and where you are in life and if things can turn out differently anyway you know japan is famous for having super low crime rate our house still got broken into you know i know there will be challenges along this way and i know it's not going to be easy but we are ready and we're prepared for it and so yeah because to be fair this move did come with a big sacrifice of moving further away from family even though we spent a ton of years apart from them already leaving friends behind that we've grown really really close to hopefully we can still tame stay in touch i mean modern technology makes that happen but it's still tough and not to mention the whole process we were planning this move at the same time as our wedding because we felt like we wanted to speed things along as much as possible uh see how that got for us we knew it was going to be difficult and it was difficult but then when covet happened and there was just no updates for two years about what the situation of people entering the country was going to be and honestly it was the most frustrating thing i've ever had to endure uh maybe you can say that means i'm privileged but it was awful and i never want to do that again i think i think the best way to put it is if i knew everything before this move no way i would make this move no same person would would go through all of this just to move country it's just it's just too much and despite how difficult it's been and all the challenges and sacrifices with time and stress and money and oh god i don't want that all to weigh me down i'm here now i'm super happy i'm super excited every day we discover new things that are this just great and we love it uh like i said the dogs are settling in really well and uh just feel really good i'm super excited for the future and what else to do here i think a lot of people thought maybe he will move to japan and then he'll retire because i think people already assume i've been stepping down on the amount of videos that i've uploaded so far i don't feel like it if anything i want to keep making videos kind of the same way i have been of sharing stuff that i feel like sharing doing projects that i want to really do and not just upload for the sake of uploading uploading daily for 12 years has been great but i don't want to do it for another 12 years okay as this seems like a sad way of living to me i don't know there are other things i want to experience in life i want to be here in japan and not at the back of my mind worrying about an upload every single day you know but i do want to bring you guys along like doing vlogs and other kind of stuff like that but yeah this is my temporary setup for now i'm recording this on my laptop i can't buy a desktop yet because to buy a desktop you need a japanese telephone number to order and i don't have that and to get a japanese telephone number i need to register at the town hall and i can't register at the town hall because we had to quarantine because of kovit coming here so there's already a lot of challenges not to mention the language barrier i'm still learning japanese obviously but konichiwa felix and this i got a long way to go but i think things will just get easier as we go and it makes it fun honestly we obviously took a jet to get here and i feel like maybe people will wonder about that or ask questions it's not the kind of if you know me that's not the kind of thing i would normally do i wouldn't even consider it if i didn't feel like i didn't have any any other option there was so many difficult with bringing our dogs edgar is a little too big to bring him in a cabin and bringing a short snouted dog who already is famous for not being able to breathe well bringing that through the cargo it just didn't feel fair risking my dog's health just because i want to move country so we looked into i think i called every single airline there is but most of them have a restriction on the sizes and they he he's just too big for the cabin and i think honestly though i've seen a ton of videos on youtube where people fly their dogs in their cabin and other pugs similar size to edgar and i think if we did bring him it probably would have been totally fine but there was so much riding on this move happening at this exact exact date for for all kinds of reasons that it just seemed like the best way to do it and maybe people have opinions about it but i don't know what else to do to be fair it was awesome i really enjoyed it it's the kind of experience you do once in a lifetime and i i uh i'll never forget it it was so cool it felt like our dream honestly the fact that it finally happened we were sitting there on our way to japan after all this amount of stress and work it finally happened and here we are i also gotta thank you guys because i shared my video and about my frustrations about not being able to come here and there was no updates and so many people were so cheering us on like you guys really wanted this to happen for us it is a dream for us and i never considered giving up on something so many times you know we didn't move here for other people but i'd be lying if i said it didn't help a little bit at least the fact that people really wanted this for us and that i really appreciate that you guys carry in that way so thank you it's been a while since i've been this excited for the future i can't wait to see what next insane chapter that we've done will lead i think me and marcy have always taken really big leaps and risks that have at the time been really scary but they they've always paid off this feels like the kind of video i want to react to in like five years to see how it all worked out but yeah i look forward to sharing this journey with you guys and thank you for watching i'll see you in the next videos.