Do you still see your life as being in Taiwan or will you immigrate to other countries?

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Chuck wagon more your style? :thinking:

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wow you two were right, TAS is now 30k usd a year yikes, i recall it was a lot less in the 2000s. okay morrison academy then (if you are okay with the religious aspect). only 16k, which is affordable (sorta barely, but sacrifices can be made) with 100k usd salary. i had some friends from there and they didnā€™t seem any less educated than the TASers i knew in college.

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More than one kid and pay for college and mortgage and retirement. Even one kid, nope. Yep you see the problem .

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70k USD after 30k TAS tuition isnā€™t enough to live on?

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well assuming you are paying taxes to someone, we can cut off about 25k of that at a minimum (and probably more). so best case itā€™s more like 45k usd after tas tuition, or a bit less than 4k a month. yeah itā€™s livable but itā€™s not much for savings, college savings, and retirement.

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Last I check itā€™s around 26k usd. Which is not high compared to many private education. Mine was around 35k back in the 2000s in the US. But itā€™s definitely hard to pull when youā€™re making 100k with other expenses.

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https://www.tas.edu.tw/admissions/tuition-fees - about 28,300, but adding some of the other fees that youā€™ll buy, it rounds to roughly 30k. 30k is actually pretty high, most private schools in the US are cheaper, a few from my area include challenger (which i attended for a year) at only 20k, and bellermine at 22k. with a dual silicon valley salary, you could afford those tuition rates too.

i think only those elite schools that basically promise top 20 uni upon graduation like exeter and andover are over the 35k to 50k range.

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I donā€™t know about these questions, ā€œyour life as being in Taiwanā€ā€¦ ā€œwill you immigrateā€¦ā€ butā€¦

I used to not like Taiwan. Now I LOVE Taiwan. And Iā€™M NOT EASILY PLEASED.

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And why did you change your mind?

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I dont know who does your budgets :sunglasses:.

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Iā€™ve been here since 99 (minus 2 years for graduate school and 1 year teaching in the States). Iā€™ve raised two daughters here, one of which is now in college. At this point itā€™s hard to imagine living somewhere else. Even after 20 years I still like Taiwan and I still think of it as home.

Recently a Taiwanese coworker asked me and my wife if weā€™d ever retire to the States. My answer was ā€œIf I had a whole lotta money.ā€ For me the dealbreaker is the cost of healthcare over there. What happens when I or someone else in my family gets sick? How could we afford that? And of course the older you get the more of a problem that can be. Iā€™m very healthy now, I run marathons, but what about when Iā€™m 65? A lot of things would have to change over there to make that feasible.

I also wouldnā€™t mind ending up like my wifeā€™s grandpa, riding a bike around the small village where he grew up. That guy had a good life.

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This.

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I fully and enthusiastically support each and every one of you who wants to emigrate to another country.
Anything at all I can do to help, let me know. :+1:

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I worry a bit about loneliness. But maybe Iā€™ll end up a grouchy old man, not wanting anything to do with other people (except family) anyway. Get a Filipina nurse who can talk to me in English maybe while she pushes me around in my wheelchair.

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You say this like itā€™s a bad thing.
Anyways, who says you got to wait until youā€™re old???

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I worry about that too. Itā€™s not a problem now, but in the future? If I wind up in a place that small? When I think about him I think about the fact that he really didnā€™t give much of a f*** about anything. At his age it was cool. Hopefully we can all get there.

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Thatā€™s how my dad ended up. He was great with family (he would answer the phone when I called in a very excited way), but really was not interested in friends, clubs, senior citizen activities, or whatever. He was a bit grouchy, really, with everyone else! Except for his flirting. He flirted with waitresses, nurses, and even female doctors to the end.

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Sounds like someone Iā€™d like.

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I may not be staying here forever, but if I am here for a long time then so let it be. I spent only 2 years here in Taiwan but that goes back 10 years. I came back in 2019 and I donā€™t know what to expect by this August. The weather is still nice.

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how about accompanying them, thatā€™d help

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