More empty hyper empty expensive flats that young people cannot afford
Most of them are not even family-friendly and lack parking. Makes you scratch your head on who these flats are for?
Also they’re built like shit. I moved to a new build after living in an old building thinking things will be new and cause less problems. Big mistake, in a few months my apartment flooded from pipes bursting above us. It was the 2nd major pipe burst since opening.
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City supports rice ball seller after dispute - Taipei Times.
help is coming. i wish them good success at one of the HSR stations
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Landlord should be happy a business that can pay rent. some can not pay and close a short time after it’s birth.
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Investors
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I am thoroughly convinced that Taiwanese people hate money
They think their properties “value” is more important than cash in hand. They are not wrong in the sense that both land and rents are skyrocketing with no end in sight…yet.
So they figure they can wait, renting is mafan anyways and better leave the properties empty rather than not renting them for the gazillion they think they “deserve”.
And they have at least two or three more rental properties anyways.
A few years ago my Taiwanese mate’s dad died. They then found out that he had 33 properties Nobody knew about it and they’d all lived a pretty impoverished lifestyle. Very odd.
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Par for the course.
So many anecdotes on this subject. One understands most of them lived in tough times, wartime and all. But the next generation suffers from it.
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I always found it strange society praises rich people being frugal and criticizes if they live lavishly and spent money.
If you look at it from an economic standpoint, it would be much better if rich people lived lavishly and spent their money quickly. We should actually praise rich people spending money as it goes to someone else doing business and working.
Being excessively frugal is straight up hoarding behavior.
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I’m ok with that.
Now, stay off my lawn!
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It’s the dream… when no-one is around you can get your hidden stash of land titles out and roll around in them! Like a cat rolling around on catnip.
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They enjoyed it after he was dead.
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Do they burn offerings of paper houses for him?
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I wonder if the 30 properties were all productively in use, or just empty. I really feel like there are a lot of empty properties around…
Like the ones under us, to our left, behind us and kitty corner. Most non-triumphant.
I don’t know. The funeral stuff was very traditional. Taking turns sleeping by the corpse and stuff.
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Why people do that?
No idea. Why do people do any funeral rites in any culture?
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