It's a huge difference indeed. It's two different worlds!!
I wish I could beam between the two countries so that I could continue working there, but live in Germany ;P
I don't feel Japanese that much, although my friends say "Oh, this is sooo Japanese." when I do certain things *g*
I don't wanna move to a big city and rather stay in my region. Munich is way to big. It will be difficult to get a good job, but I really realized how precious and beautiful the area is where I used to live and I wanna enjoy that some more once I'm back home.

Nice to hear from you again. I hope you're doing fine as well :)