This isn’t just Taiwan. Also, not all the women. But yeah, Tinder requires sorting through scams and promotions and other people (some probably men) trying to extract money from men.
yeah you’re probably right about that. Lot of dating apps have turned into self promotional clout tools.
I read about it some years ago, girls wirh boyfriends in the US and Canada on Tinder to grow their Insta followers. Just did a quick search and found this
Yep, my best friend is divorced there is more to do for quality dating. Concerts, theater, going around with Ryanair and run marathons in different countries. And most girls are well outspoken and not boring. Especially southern Europeans. I love to met them and have chat. Comparing to wife tw friends who are mostly dull and overall not interesting persons.
It seems Taiwanese are raised with strong ethnocentric logic and behavior without much social skills. For girls in 30s one expect they are able to put meaningful sentences together.
Nah. At least not US, UK. US is like 70% fat girls, girls covered in tattoos, single moms, just terrible. I get way more dates here, because I can actually swipe right as often as left.
Maybe like, Sweden or something would still be good 
Wow what a long and old post that is still going. I have learnt a lot from reading this thread, thank you for all the info.
I am considering a move to Taiwan and now further to what I have read here I am considering not going. I am in my late-30s (but look quite young for my age) and from the UK. Will it really be as bad for me as has been suggested? I would genuinely settle down for the right girl but if the dating scene is as bad as has been suggested I should stay clear.
This page Living in Taiwan 101: Read This Before Moving to Taiwan in 2023! - Spiritual Travels was written in 2021 but says white-guys “from native English speaking countries are treated like rock stars and can easily find employment (and dating partners)” but the exact opposite has been said here. Is the perspective of this page incorrect?
If anything less than “being treated like a rock star” is a “bad dating scene” for you, then no, Taiwan is not the ideal dating place. Sorry.
They did say “the exact opposite”
Welcome to the forum
Plenty of our forum members have Taiwanese wives and girlfriends. Probably the people who are most successful aren’t on this thread complaining about it. I wouldn’t come here for the women (or the food), but that doesn’t mean that there are no happily ever after stories
Some smartass even made a thread
Ooops, I guess I’m too sensitive then. Sorry @valjean
As @TT said, the happily dating people are less likely to post here than upset ones.
Try this thread for happy relationship stories:
Come here for dating but it could be a lifetime sentence of you are not careful.
Seriously that’s not a good enough reason to decide for or against moving to a place IMHO.
What can you offer? Sure is easy to have fun, but for serious dating a man in late 30s have to put chips on table.
Does anybody know if any Christian dating apps, such as Christian Connection, are used in Taiwan?
Yes I meant is Taiwan as bad has been suggested and how come that article is saying “rock stars,” I was not expecting that article to be true.
I hope you are right re happy people being less likely to post.
Gosh if that is true maybe Taiwan would not work out. I have money but I do not want a girl who is only interested in me for my money. I know some countries can be like that in Asia but I would have thought Taiwan would not be that bad.
It’s a lot better than most Asians countries. All I am saying be a gentleman. In the end a lot of ladies your age have good jobs, money and reasonable they expect good experience. Younger girls want to be spoiled, otherwise why would they date an older fella?
Is way better than UK
Ignore the curmudgeons. Women anywhere will expect you to have money and to spend some of it on them, and women in Taiwan are not remarkably different in that regard. It’s definitely not like Thailand or the Philippines, where a far higher proportion of women treat a bf/husband as a meal ticket. But if you have a serious relationship here they will generally expect you to fulfil a “traditional” breadwinner role.
A fair number of women will share the financial burden, and you’d be surprised how many women in their 30s are quite well-off (because of a well-paying job, family inheritance, or both). Depending on where you set your sights, you could quite easily end up with someone who is more prepared to play a part in a team, rather than just wait for you to pay the bills.
If all you’re expecting is a casual relationship, then as long as you make it clear that’s what you want there are plenty of (younger) women who will be interested, and most of them won’t be thinking of it in terms of a financial quid-pro-quo. If you go looking for girls who want to be “spoiled” then that’s what you’ll get.
You’re never going to know unless you try taiwan for yourself. everybodies opinion on here is exactly that, an opinion.
Yes some of it is true, some if it isn’t, but you’ll most likely find it a lot of fun for a year or two and then that shit MAY fade or may NOT fade. I would still try it for a few months and then go to like vietnam or thailand.
Chinese is so valuable nowadays!
Never fails to impress when I use it.
Many of the lifetime unmarried ones are well off. But that happens to be more in their 40s and 50s in my experience.
I’m a female ABT living in Taipei. Can confirm most of my female Taiwanese friends do not want to date a foreigner, but a few do. They mostly want to date ABTs or ABCs. They believe ABT/ABCs are more open-minded than local Taiwanese men, but were still raised in a Taiwanese/Chinese family so they know the culture and the language. imho many Taiwanese women are tired of Taiwanese men with traditional mindsets who expect women to fulfill a certain role in the household and have mothers who treat their sons like kings. 