Now, GIT, tell the REST of the story, at least with locals …“have sex AND do your housework AND expect you to marry them AND go fucking PXJ if you lose interest on the way to the altar”.
maunaloa: I don’t think all of them do expect to marry, at least as long as you’re choosing the right ones. Never date a Taiwanese woman who is 26-29 because that is asking for trouble. They are perhaps one hundred times more aware of any expiry date than you could ever be.
Older than that, and of course many would like to marry, but to some extent, many have also given up on the idea and because they (and others) perceive themselves to be over the hill and don’t define themselves by one (potential) event in their lives, they’ve done other things and developed other interests. In my opinion, at least, women here in their early to mid-thirties are fucking rad. They’re still gorgeous, but they seem to have finally caught up to their real ages in terms of psychological maturity and being intelligent, interesting, well-travelled, etc.
Then, on the other hand, of course, I don’t need to sing the praises of the younger women. Yes, many are airheads, but that’s a minor consideration when they are 24 carat, government backed, AAA investment quality, champagne and caviar poontang. Also, in some ways, they’re cool too. There seems to be a generational thing here and the so-called strawberry generation are more worldy and interesting compared to women just five years older.
As I said, avoid those in their late 20s, and all is cool. Yeah, there’s a fair amount of being a psycho xaiojie here, but whatever the equivalent term is for women trouble in the West is (and just general disagreeability), that exists out West in spades. It’s much harder to justify when it’s not 24 carat poontang also.
Ask almost any of the guys on this board who are married and they will tell you their wives are the most awesome women in the world. Mine is. I’m sure bismark’s is also. I suspect that guys over here (be it Taiwan or Asia in general) are probably a lot more satisfied in their relationships than guys in the West. You’d have to be in order to willingly give up the smorgasbord here, especially when guys who are old and ordinary still pull hot chicks. There’s absolutely no reason to marry in Asia, unless you want kids or your wife is freakin’ awesome. I have only one friend I worry about, whose girlfriend is an evil witch that everyone we know (including my wife, who gets along with anybody and everybody – including me, and as you can imagine, I’m not an easy person to get along with) despises. He’s too fucking weak to ditch her, even though he complains about her and he knows she’s not right for him on so many levels. They’re both on the wrong side of 25, and he’s making rumblings about leaving Taiwan, so I am expecting some major psycho xiaojie shit to go down at some point, unless he takes her with him, in which case, I’d just rip out his heart and his brain and put lumps of coal there and save him the trouble. Actually, I’d have to stand in line to do so.
Nice clarification … err, maybe “stratification” is equally apt.
Nowadays fewer women in that age bracket are interested in marriage than a few years ago, but it is still a “high risk” age bracket if that’s not your goal.
I fully agree on your take on the 30 to mid-thirty age bracket in Taiwan. But being 35 myself, I’d have to extend that age group from 30 to 45. I’ve met plenty of gorgeous and interesting women here between the ages of 35 to 45. Of course, if you’re 35, a 40 year old women wouldn’t hold the same appeal. My perspective is changing as I climb the dreaded age ladder myself.
My wife’s cool, but considering she’s a tad on the young side, there’s a bit of a gap in terms of interest etc.
Still for a single guy in his twenties in Taoyuan, it sounds like the possibilities are endless (in terms of saving money and having an interesting relationship or two).
Ah…to be 25 again. 
bismark: I’m a year younger than you, but I wouldn’t have considered marrying a woman older than me simply because having children would have been complicated.
I have lived in Taoyuan county (Chongli) for over 6 years and I love it here. I’ll be honest; I don’t think my Chinese would be as good as it is if I lived in Taipei. Anyway, yes it is the concrete jungle, or the arm pit of Taiwan, but you can make any place a nice place to live. I have a nice job, great friends, cheap rent, outstanding places to eat, drink and socialize, etc. I love it here. No complaints. I have friends all over this wonderful island and all citys have there ups and downs. You make your life here, IMO it doesn’t matter too much where you end up, it matters more about your job and the people you meet that influence your life here. I have friends that hated living in Taipei, and now live in Longtan and love it. If you live outside of the big cities, especially Taipei you really do get to see more of the Taiwanese way of life.
Grave dig here to post about this recent development.
Taoyuan paired with Newark? Yup, that sounds about right.
Guy
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Taoyuan is growing up. Looks like a very nice public building!
Guy
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