taiwan was a lot of fun for the tomster too but that also largely was because the tomster was also young at that time
i wonder lets say i was able to retire in taiwan because of Taiwan govt changes which gave me citizenship (one can dream yes) i would probably be able to survive ok living say in ktown on my social security but the wife will have to stay on in usa and fend for herself = lol .
i wonder as an old fart just hypothetically speaking what life would be like for OLD tomster in Ktown??
p.s. i would NOT want to spend my days in cold and miserable for 200 days out of the year Wanli. Although the daily drive to YMS to the cheap hotsprings in winter is a real PLUS.
dam you gonna spend that much on a quarter pounder with cheese meal here in california !!
nowadays prices have gone way up and it costs on average about 20 to 30 dollars per person to eat at your average restaurant here in california.
thats bout double say ten years ago. tomster is getting healthier now by NOT eating every single meal outside anymore, neither is wifey. We eating at home mostly. Out only a few times a week now down from dinner outside daily .
Well they were cranking out that meth. Taiwan and Japan. It hadnāt really infected the west yet. Iām talking āIceā not just amphetamine. You could actually buy speed pulls at the pharmacy I always thought it weird as to why it wasnāt used much in the west but we all know how
that unfolded. I think the government of the time seemed to crack it on the head. I remember all the *Donāt take drugs" adverts on terrestrial TV.
Now people got 4 years for apartment full of plantsā¦ still not good for a harmless plant but you have to admit, thereās a slow gradual move towards leniency. Also you can import CBD for personal use. That would be unthinkable in the 90s.
I have to admit a bias of loving the bad old circus days. When Chocolate was deported, Paraguayan diplomats were sent home for giving locals STDs, Canadians running through airports saying they knew A-bian or getting slapped by PFP politicians at police stations. When old school mods such as Jabronner pontificated like socialist first year college poli sci instructors.
Although, there are still high profile shenanigans such as the recent murder case involving the Israeli and the Yank (and Canadians).
I went there with a friend in the first week of this year. The food was actually very good. Had not been for years. The manager and one of the staff who worked there 20 years ago remembered me. She head left and was back at the BM again.
Funny thing is there are one or two Canadians still here in Taiwan that were friends with just about every foreign criminal from western countries. Matty Forand did his time I think 15 years for importing drugs. Beat teaching English for the money,
Yip, a textbook case for drugs. Literally and figurately. They were hidden in textbooks being smuggled into the country were they not?
one or two Canadians still here in Taiwan that were friends with just about every foreign criminal from western countries
Maybe because Canadian Consular Affairs is as useless as ātits on a bullā. If I were ever in troubleāshit deepāI would use other citizenship consular contacts first. After watching Canadian consular in the Saudi William Samson case.
Sampson nurtured an abiding bitterness against the Canadian government, which he felt had abandoned him. Consular officials visited him in prison several times but only with guards present. They apparently knew he was being tortured but didnāt go public for fear he would be abused even more, the Star reported.
Taiwanese law does not guarantee a tremendous number of rights for resident aliens. we are not allowed to own businesses or property under their own names;
The lawlessness of Taiwan at the time raised a whole generation of paranoid Taiwanese mothers who emigrated.
No Taiwanese mother in the US will allow MSG in their food, microwaves in their home, impure cooking oils in their kitchen, or foods with additives or artificial coloring.
