Here in Germany cars are getting bigger and bigger, almost 50 % of newly registered cars are SUVs that weigh more than 2 tons. They clog up cities like Berlin and take more and more space. They're also completely useless as no one actually needs a 4x4 or extra-elevated car, it's pure marketing and ego stroking.

Japanese cities and places like Okinawa use public space so much more efficiently, you see tiny cars and Microvans everywhere. For urban settings they're really the perfect choice of vehicle IMHO, so it's quite sad you can't buy them here.

2) "chips" or "wedges" like I could find in Melbourne OZ

3) Effective (real) chipper-shredders for lawn care. The number of times I've tried to rent one and had to hire someone for $200-300 to turn trees on my property into mulch is beyond frustrating. Heck, even if I needed to get training and take a test for a license I would do it. I think the US took a bit of a harsh stance on these devices for common consumers after it was widely publicized that Saddam Hussein used these devices to turn his political dissidents into "fodder".

2. 8oz Rip Its

3. Toyota Hilux

4. Small but rugged SUVs (RAV4 Adventure and maybe Jeep Cherokee are the only things even close in the U.S.)

5. Tim Tams. They haven't been available since COVID.

Google apps store does not allow you to buy an app in Japanese from the UK, Amazon.jp requires a different account than amazon.co.uk (which is not the case for amazon.com), Netflix does not provide Japanese subtitles for animes, same for steam, some games are in many languages but not Japanese.

2. Souvlak's (Greek street food)

3. Firecrackers that have small explosive power(They used to sell them here like 20 years ago)

4. Amazon Prime

5. Electric bikes that go faster then 25km/h

6. More second hand old cheap Japanese pickup trucks

1. Weed, to be honest. I'm not a heavy consumer, but I'd appreciate a safe, reliable source.

2. Old Dutch BBQ chips

3. Cheese curds

1. Jack Wolfskin Berkeley backpack

2. iFixit repair parts (especially MacBook Pro batteries; fake ones killed 3 logic boards last week)

3. Affordable bicycle lights (white lights cost $20 in NZ, 60€ in France, 100 NTD in Taiwan)

4. Apple laptops with keyboard engravings from other regions (there are many Chinese and Koreans in Auckland, not to mention Russian, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, etc).

Asian vegetables. South Asian, southeast, Asian, east asian, whatever. Bitter gourd, drumsticks, curry leaves, kang kong. I really hate broccoli but it's hard to escape.

Having a maid. While common for the middle class in SEA, US labor laws preclude this. This would also help the majority of needs for the commenter seeking a pre-packaged lifestyle for sale.

Foreign programming. Sometimes I want to watch a shitty cop drama or the news in french without getting the super duper directv package.

Public transportation that runs more frequently than every hour, and fare cards for buses. In Singapore, bus 851 has run every 12 minutes between the north and south of the island for the last 20 years at least. Try getting that level of consistency here.

The green tea in our supermarket is almost undrinkable.

Why does Google sell stadia here but not pixels? They could just allow shipping from the German store.

I don't understand their strategy of limiting where you can buy a device. It's so incredibly frustrating.

I want to import the purifier with pump, but it seems that it's hard to find a product that supports 100V/50Hz power.

2. Vero Mango Lollipops

3. Kanelbullar

-Seafood is very different in tropical countries from temperate countries.. Temperate fish like cod are not usually available in canned/dried form.

-The russian non alcoholic drink "Mors", also birchwater.

-Persimmons

-Cashew Apples

-Exotic citrous like Pomellos

-Durians

I wish I could not be restricted by geography, and freely and conveniently browse everything that's on offer from everywhere in the world, and have it delivered for only a small additional fee, in a weeks time or so.

I ended up with a paper shredder that will shred cardboard, but it's still a pain in the ass to tear up the boxes. I would kill for something like a mulcher than I can just chuck whole boxes into and let it deal with.

I should probably order less stuff online, I know, but the recycling around here sucks. They only pick up recycling every 2 weeks, and the bin is smaller than my trash bin. Despite the fact that I generate a lot more recycleables than I do genuine trash.

What makes you say that? I don't see any laws about owning these. The good ones are just really expensive. Renting one would probably run you about the price that you mentioned ($200-300).

I've been looking at used ones on craigslist, but haven't found the right one yet.