Hi. I have lived in Taiwan for three years but specifically I have only lived in small rural villages a decent distance from any major city. I choose these places because I knew it would force me to study and use Chinese. After 3 years of this lifestyle I have learned a lot of Chinese and have seen a lot of traditional Chinese culture. The only issue is that the only people that live in small villages are the elderly or children. Now I want to move to the city in order to meet a lifelong partner. What cities are the easiest for this if I know a decent amount of Chinese (So can live places other than just Taipei). Thanks in advance!
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Obviously, Taipei has the biggest dating pool by far, thus largely increasing the chance of finding a compatible life partner.
What could possibly be ābetterā in other cities for you? Like, what are you looking for besides a convenient city with big dating pool?
Taipei has a higher cost of living and more competition for foreign related jobs than other cities. Also I noticed that Taipei Taiwanese want to default to English when talking to a foreigners which would hurt my Chinese learning.
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Do you want to find a lifelong partner or practice your Chinese? Or are you focused on cost of living and jobs?
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Iām pretty sure Taipei isnāt the only place in Taiwan where you can find a lifelong partner. I think being able to save money is pretty important if I want to eventually get married and start a family too. Are you saying Taipei is the only part of Taiwan where Taiwanese are willing to date a foreigner?
No, Iām not saying that.
Taoyuan is the only option.
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Taoyuan or Taichung sound like your kind of place.
You must have been in rural Nantou or Hualien if you think you saw ātraditional Chinese cultureā.
Itās true that Taipei is more expensive and there is more competition but there are also a lot more foreign-related jobs.
No one defaults to English with me in Taipei unless I am force to go somewhere like Taipei101. I doubt very much that living in Taipei will hinder you in improving your Mandarin.
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Go to Kaohsiung.
Cheaper living and people nicer and more open to chatting on the street or cafe, whom youāve just bumped into, than in the north.
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Not for dating. Unless youāre into divorced momsā¦
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Go aboriginal.
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Jobs?
You seem like a young guy. Get out there and get acquainted with as many cities as you can. When you sense the right signal, make your move (Tsui Mama can help with that). When youāve found the right one, youāll know.
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Never understood this logic.
If you want to live in Taipei nobody is forcing you to not speak Chinese. (Besides people who want you to also learn Taiwanese)
Now, cheaper cost of living and weather, those are real reasons to not live in Taipei that i can get behindā¦ less snobby people would be another acceptable answer.
But dating wise you are looking at twice the people of the next biggest city. Unless you of course donāt consider Xinbei to be Taipei then you would have to reject those potential dates from Xinbei because they are not officially part of Taipei, sorry girls.
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Best place for that is Kaohsiung.
SCNR
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Kaohsiung is good for display pictures? 
Canāt really see the difference in whether you speak Mandarin or not- itās pretty universal in Taiwan. Anybody who speaks only Hokkien, Hakka, or an aboriginal language is going to be north of 70, and probably outside your dating pool.
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Davie504 lived in Taichung. Although he already found someone before he came over to Taiwan.
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