🇬🇧 Brits in Taiwan

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After a decade in Taiwan, I think I feel more British now than I ever have, even more than when I lived in the UK. I guess Taiwan does that to you. Yet, I only have one British friend in Taiwan.

On the way back from work today I rode past someone wearing the Football shirt of the shithole city I’m from in England, and it actually made me feel really good. And it’s made me think, maybe it would be good for me to make more friends from the UK. I should have added that guy on LINE… oh well.

So, anyone from the UK here? Wanna go get a drink? Let’s make a LINE group? Dull Men’s Club Taiwan?

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I’m back in Blighty but wanted to share a great exchange on the LNER train to London this week from Leeds.

Garbage collector on train: Ruuuuuuuuubish anyone…The bag ain’t big enough for your Bradford City FC shirt.

Me: Me no English (making oinking noises).

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He knew that already when he saw the Bradford shirt. :wink:

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Popping in (very) briefly, I’m American, but this reminded me of my first time living outside the US. After about a year I noticed that suddenly country and western music sounded surprisingly great, the more hillbilly-er the better. That was a new one for me. First time I flew back to LAX I walked by, then looped back to the Burger King just to hear the black kids working talk and shout orders. Man I missed that; I’ve never forgotten it. Definitely gained perspective by living abroad.

Anyway, hope you find some fellow countrymen. Good luck.

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I’m down, but I won’t be around until late July.

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As long as I don’t have to sit through episodes of Coronation Street, talk about the royal family, or reminisce about the war… I’m good for that.

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I love wearing my cowboy hat and Chelsea boots on the tube.

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I thought this was part of the “Foreigners Behaving Badly in Taiwn” thread
Alright, it’s much better now, but back in the late '80s there was truly a section of Brits who were outright drunken obnoxious hooligans.

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Worse than Canadians in the early 2000s? There was a time when it seemed they were in the news every week!

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Tell me how long you’ve been in Taiwan without telling me how long you’ve been in Taiwan.

When I first landed here, they were still listening to the Jam.

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The Canadians in the early 2000s were mere kittens compared to those who came before. There used to be some pretty strange foreigners around, not limited to any one particular nationality though.

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:laughing: :maple_leaf:

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They have been through 20 years of social engineering since then. They have become all responsible and boring.

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We are still here just in much smaller numbers and getting very old.

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The tube runs to Bradford now???

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Interestingly I’m kind of the opposite although because the country I came from changed so much I have to adjust to a different country and society when back and of course I changed a lot. I already became half Asian or changed my viewpoints on lots of things a long time ago. But I have also been out of my home country a very very long time.
The main thing that keeps me connected these days to Western things is probably Netflix and YouTube but even then I never watch my home country’s YouTubers. I guess my brethren are other foreigners who moved to Asia long term.

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I’m often in London. :cowboy_hat_face:

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Yeah and this seems to be increasingly click-bait so not the best guage of what it’s like to live day to day in a place :person_shrugging:t2:

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