Seconded. Generally people leave you alone unless you in some way impact their lives. I’d put that down as awesome.
Judgement might be cast, but that doesn’t interest me.
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There’s not as much intolerance here. Nobody gives a damn about your political beliefs here.
I couldn’t care less about that.
I like the quote, “it’s none of your business what other people think about you.”
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Inexpensive basics are cheap. Rent is still generally fairly reasonable despite the recent increases. It’s easier to be poor in Taiwan than it is in my home country,
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Lots of thais.
You perv.
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To be fair, you’ve aged, old man.
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It’s why I never ask.
Lots of filipinos
The fact that this thread has such a weak premise is a good thing. That a comfortable lifestyle that allows us to complain about petty things means that the good is the norm, and expected and that the bad is rare enough to be notable and surprising.
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Really, good but not awesome could be the tagline for the whole place. I think I’ve described almost everything here that way. Someone once corroborated by saying things mostly work but putting up with minor inconveniences is Taiwanese (they’re Taiwanese btw)
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plum wine.
should be cheaper it would be awesome
Access to and quality of natural spaces is pretty awesome. The drive north up the east coast, the high mountains, the birds/flowers/butterflies. Taiwan is gorgeous. Isla Formosa, the beautiful island.
But everything else, I think good on a good day.
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This looks like some of the beaches in Taiwan. Except that our version of the tumble weed is a spinifex seed head. Anyway, some of them are often deserted, which I find
Indeed, I often experience the beaches of Taiwan as
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