Livable Locations

Mari	Mike

Mari: Hey, Mike, so we live in the countryside, and we go to school up on a mountain. Could you see yourself living here?

Mike: Well, I do really like living in the country, but I don't think I could stay here for a long period of time, even though I do like staying here for the period that we are here now.

Mari: Where do you want to live?

Mike: Well, I've never lived in a big city, so I think that I would like to try to live in a big city.

Mari: Like which one?

Mike: Possibly one like New York or London. I think, I've always seen it on TV and I've always wanted to try to live there but I've never, so I thing that would probably be really interesting.

Mari: What attracts you to those cities?

Mike: I guess just the diversity that you might find or just the fact that so much stuff is going on in the city. I might like to see how that lifestyle is.

Mari: Sounds cool.

Mike: What about you?

Mari: I couldn't see myself living here in the long-term. I grew up in two really big cities so... and I've moved around a lot and... so in the future, I think I just want to stay in one place.

Mike: What types of cities?

Mari: I guess a big city in Japan. My parents live here, so I feel like I'm more inclined to live here. My brother lives in the States and so if we both lived in the United States, I think my parents would feel a little bit lonely so I feel more inclined to live in Japan.

Mike: Which city in Japan would you like?

Mari: My parents live near Osaka. I grew up in Tokyo. I'm thinking maybe like Kobe. I think that... I like Kobe a lot because it's like an international port city, or originally it was. We have the ocean, the water, and the mountain and it just seems like a very cosmopolitan city to me in Japan.