Yeah it’s a bit shit all round. Although it’d be well handy if I still lived up on Shanggong rd.
it’s potato and I find that disgusting
insulting even bc my local familymart says thats the only flavor available, can’t even get milk no more.
were it up to me it’d be matcha and milk 24/7/365. No other flavor comes close.
also there’s a new old guy working there and he’s mean
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I love it. I’ve never been in it and I don’t intend to be. If you’re in it you’re famous for all the wrong reasons 
Apparently human rights are not a factor for you.
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I’ll look it up.
There were cannibals here too and not from the indigenous tribes but the Minan Ren trapping and then eating them as a delicacy. I think there is a research paper on it. The indigenous tribes finally captured the head of the cannibal hunters and left his head on a stick.
Think how tough one would have to be to live on this rock pre electrical technology !
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That’s not entirely the truth. According to George Mackay and the Japanese, who were still recording the practice well into the 1920s, Han immigrants of all ethnicities did it, and they did it because they believed it was a medicine against malaria.
Those Aboriginals who already agreed to Sinification would actually lure other Aboriginals out and capture them for cash.
Sometimes the savages are taken by the treachery of their kinsmen, the Pe-po-hoan. One famous old chief was on the top of a mountain with a band of twenty-four braves, when he was beckoned by a party of Pe-po-hoan to approach and drink one another’s health. After much hesitation, the savages came; but hardly had the liquor been tasted when the crafty design was revealed and the savages attacked. After a desperate hand-to-hand struggle the men escaped, but the chief was taken a prisoner. He was handed over to the Chinese authorities, who gave a reward to his captors. After being imprisoned, beaten, tortured, he was dragged through the streets, and women rushed forwards, thrusting long needles into his flesh by way of avenging the death of their husbands, sons, and friends. When the signal was given for him to kneel, with diabolical glee he said he was not ashamed to die, for at his house on the mountains was a row of Chinese heads lacking only six of completing the hundred, every one the prize of his own daring skill. …
From the page of Mackay’s memoir that talked about Pe-po-hoan’s trap for their kinsmen. The next page went into the gruesome execution of the old chief and how people fought over his flesh.
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So it’s all above board and officially stated in their plan? Or do you mean corruption and sketchy behind closed doors deals?
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It was definitely in their plans. Which were meticulous. Planning started in the 1980s. Part of the reason for the station locations was also to create new satellite cities to take the pressure off of the rapidly growing cities. Unlike the old city cores, they would have the benefit of urban planning. So far Zhubei has been the most successful.
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no sane person would live in 烏日 in taichung, as it’s a industrial district masquerading as a place to live, and yet development of the area has begun anyhow.
It’s not that bad, it has some nice kinda cute areas and a bit of an older taiwan vibe (i say as if I know what that was like but I kinda imagine it to be like that) but there are new developments like among the industrial park area and I just don’t get it lol
but realistically, this is a fundamental aspect of transit. When people in the US hear about a transit line in China built to a place where nobody lives, they think it’s such a waste. But the very existence of that kinda thing drives development hugely and also helps accommodate for growth. Developer sees oh look, metro line nearby, we can charge for that. It needn’t be a secret plot because this effect is documented literally basically every time new transit is built. So that empty metro line in China is eventually going to become a connected and very likely densely populated area.
Yeah, Taiwan is also a couple of decades behind China in authoritarianism. There’s so much freedom here it’s like the Wild West. 
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I prefer to think of it as “been there, done that.” No need to go back to those days.
Guy
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I was stationed at 烏日 when I did my military. There’s a whole lot of nothing and machine tool dealers there.
I think this is something the us or Canada could do. Build a train station or highway in the middle of nowhere, as well as a distribution hub. Then start getting immigrants to move there.
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I came here for a year in '93-'94 to learn Mandarin. I scoped things out over a weekend in July, and then I showed up in August or September (I think) to start the next term. I came with a suitcase and almost no money. I was set up with an English teaching job, student visa, room in apartment, etc. in just a few days. I bought a motorcycle not long after arriving. Everything was easy and hassle-free (no helmet and no license, for example). I basically studied, worked, and partied, all around the NTNU area, and so I don’t have too much to add to what has already been said.
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it’s exactly what the US and Canada did for most of their history lol
when taiwanese live by their umbrellas, you know why. because in the 80s, there are literally acid rains from the pollution.
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Daan Forest Park in Taipei was a huge squatter settlement until the Taipei government bulldozed it in 1992.
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Yes, bulldozed was all they did. They forgot to dig (or consult botanists). Now they’ve ended up with trees that don’t grow taller than 6 meters. Not exactly a “forest” park.
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I like that park nonetheless. Go there all the time to sit on a bench and do some serious tree watching. 
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