Hello! I’ll be studying abroad at NTU for 6 months next year on the Huayu scholarship. Wondering where the best areas to rent for cheap is and general advice? If anyone is also studying abroad around the same time—let’s connect!
Sanchong and Linkou are relatively cheap. But if you’re only here for 6 months, just try to find something near your school.
One more time copy pasting or quoting myself:
Do not rent from abroad, without seeing. Do not sign anything by yourself, always have witnesses. Never share the place with the landlord and do not take a place where you share utilities.
Take pictures/video of everything as you find it. Please remember contracts in English may not be valid, or at least not as valid as the one in Chinese.
Learn to look for convenience like Taiwanese do. You can live a bit further away, a bus ride and MRT ride of 20 minutes or so and still be fine and save money and not become a hermit. But if the nearest 711 is a bus ride away, you will be in trouble. Convenience and health. Do not rent unhealthy accommodation, like window less shoe boxes or basement dwelling. There was a tuberculosis plague in 97.
Remember: there are options, this is not the only room in the world and you will not end up sleeping on the ground.
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