More responsibility and the “magic” of Japan wears off after a while. Life becomes normal but a lot of people still treat you as a tourist because you look foreign (as a western foreigner here) and speak to you in English even if you can speak Japanese. Of course, my workplace doesn’t do this as they know me well, but the normal strangers on the street can’t tell if I live here or not. To a tourist, this is helpful and welcoming, but to someone who has been living here for a long time, it can be disheartening when you are treated as an “outsider”.