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The numbers have been crunched. The apartments have been sized. The math is not close — and the gap between what your money does in a high-cost city versus what it does on a Philippine island is wide enough to make you sit with it for a while.

There is a word in the Japanese language that has no adequate translation in English, because no other culture has felt the need to name what it describes quite so precisely.