I think cooking is a basic skill for self sufficiency, if things go wrong in society.

Living in dense cities it can be easy to forget how many dependencies you rely on, it's a complex chain of logistics.

But I sure do miss the convenience and cost of Japan. Cities in Japan feel like they are made for people to live mostly outside of their house. Whereas it is so expensive to do normal city stuff in many western cities, it costs too much to participate every day.