Hello everyone what are your best and worst experience living in Shalu District?
Had a girlfriend from Shalu. She didn’t like living there and instead loved living in Taichung city. People with free time go to Taichung.
Air pollution is an ongoing problem worse than most places in Taiwan.
Gaomei wetlands and the outlet mall that is usually empty and a couple other things are okay to visit but not a reason or useful for living in the area.
I’m there occasionally and can’t see any reason to live in shalu except by necessity like job, family, uni, etc. And then to make it more worse are some huge thoroughfares cutting in different directions across the whole area.
Can’t use the beaches and farther from the mountains than most places.
Some nice spots on hills to eat or have coffee and watch sunset and that’s probably one of the more attractive things about the area visiting not living.
Distant from things that people like to do.
But you know what they say, bloom where you’re planted.
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Humanity has a knack of surviving in all manner of shitty environments…. Shalu being one of them.
Aside from some places in Yunlin (near Formosa Plastics) or in Taoyuan (industrial hell zones), that looks pretty much near the bottom of places I’d like to live in Taiwan. 
Guy
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Cheap rent and a McDonald’s. Shalu doesn’t leave anything to be desired.
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You can then used the money saved to pay for some lung treatment after living close to that notorious coal plant!
Guy
Positives - there’s good views from the hillside . Also Providence Uni.
what’s the name of the coal-fired power plant
Answer: 台ä¸ç™Ľé›»ĺ» .
Source: Taichung Power Plant - Wikipedia
A key point taken from the wiki:
During warnings by the scientific community about increasing prevalence of lung cancer in Taiwan in December 2015, it was claimed that Taichung Power Plant along with the Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant of the Formosa Plastics Group account for roughly seventy percent of the air pollution in the Central Taiwan region of the country, emitting large quantities of sulfur oxides.
Guy
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70% is a lot 