Rohan, that sounds like a sensible plan.
The Bear:
A splittist, eh?
Judging by some of the video links posted on this forum, I think even the Dalai Lama might chase his mind if he took the MRT in Taipei a few times!
Reading posts on this forum makes me feel like a 12 year old who is yet to learn anything about girls! Its almost like there is this sub-species of women called “Taiwanese girls” whom I completely missed out upon.
I think I might be just slightly disappointed if the girl I am keen upon turns out to be a normal girl! Feels like I am walking into a shark tank and praying that I find a dolphin 
i think you are looking in to it too much mate…
as others have said, the best bet is to come here and see her in her natural environment. i used to think it was better to meet an asian girl abroad, because of the novelty factor of being white here, you might get girls after you for the wrong reasons… at least back home you will be fairly judged. but now i think i was wrong, the girls can act pretty differently abroad and at home… they definitely get a lot of freedom and less stress when away from their restrictive asian parents. jealously can come out too when here… as there are a LOT of hot/pretty/beautiful girls here. taiwan is definitely the place to test the waters.
Yes, thats what I would be doing next month.
Funnily enough, I have been to HK plenty of times and whilst I find the girls attractive to look at, I have never been able to relate to them very well - whether they are in HK or abroad . Same goes for Shanghai and Beijing. But looks like Taiwan might be my cup of tea 
I fall in love (lust) every five minutes around the DingHao -ChongShiao/ Dunhwa Area of Taipei !!
And yes, the MRT ! Tons of eyecandy all around. Go in summertime and take in the shortest shorts and the shortest dressses known to mankind.
Some days I think people must be speaking about another Taiwan… but no, apparently I’m one of the very few who’s not that into local girls. As such, my advice to the OP, namely to completely forget about it and move on, will no doubt fall on deaf ears 
Being in Taiwan and not being partial to Taiwanese girls is like being in Napa and not being partial to wine.
You’re reminding me of the time my mormon family rented a huge house in the wine country for our family reunion hahahaha. This quote about sums up my 7 years in Taiwan, except that I am a bit into Taiwanese guys 
Good luck Rohan!
[quote=“rohan.collins”]Yes, thats what I would be doing next month.
Funnily enough, I have been to HK plenty of times and whilst I find the girls attractive to look at, I have never been able to relate to them very well - whether they are in HK or abroad . Same goes for Shanghai and Beijing. But looks like Taiwan might be my cup of tea [/quote]
china can’t compare to here for women, its another level here, especially in taipei… fittys every 5 seconds pretty much!
The local variety doesn’t impress me either. I still remember one taiwanese GF that I had a couple of years ago. I certainly don’t miss all her outbursts and drama. The girls are good for friendship but if you accept them as GFs, expect them to try taking over your life and friendship, career, appearance, time, hobbies, even your thoughts. Once was enough for me.
From pussy fit to fussy pit, the transition from watching birds to botching words can take as little as four short weeks in the relationship cycle. 
A lot of it comes down to individual taste. Maybe I’m just not a wine drinker? I feel like I am culturally incompatible with pretty much everyone I’ve met.
A lot of it comes down to individual taste. Maybe I’m just not a wine drinker? I feel like I am culturally incompatible with pretty much everyone I’ve met.[/quote]
Why? don’t you like to walk through the crowds holding a huge plastic cup of bubble tea while taking selfies and pictures of food? or it’s that you don’t like KTV? don’t tell me that it’s the fake eye lids, lenses, faces and voices what put you off…
Theres plenty of westernized girls here who have lived abroad and such…its not like they are all controlling. Altho the stock taiwanese girl is i admit. the bigger issue imo is the family side of things… a girl here can change her ways to suit another culture but nobody is escaping the familys grasp…
Im curious to what those guys are looking for who dont dig the local women? To me they are hard to beat…but hey i like asian women.
Personal experience is a lousy basis for making generalizations. Suffice to say my first six months in Taipei were enough to discourage me from collecting more data.
I agree with this statement. I’ve always been confused by the praise Taiwanese girls receive from Westerners.
But beauty is in the eyes of beholder, maybe they really are that hot.
Finding a woman with her head screwed on straight takes time (and luck) no matter the country. Dating scenes vary greatly even between western cities. I’d agree that the “baggage” and “maintenance” carried by many Taiwanese eye-candy women is to vast for me. I couldn’t handle those funny/strange annoyances on a daily basis. However, most of the eye-candy girls from NY city carry different kind of “baggage”. It’s just that “western” baggage is more of a cultural norm to Westerners.
The cultural gap between Westerners and the Taiwanese is pretty big and bridging that gap for a stable relationship is hard. Sampling the fruit is one thing, but finding a partner for the long haul is quite different.
[quote=“robert the bruce”]
She might be the one but you really need to be sure. Just pay a visit to her here, come to Taiwan for a vacation.[/quote]
Do you really need to be sure? Seems a big ask
And if you do really need to be sure, is coming to Taiwan looking for trouble the best way to achieve that?
IF the best case scenario for “developments” is in Australia, that’s the relevant test…er…bed.
She might not be able to survive long term without access to night markets, for example.
I’ve talked to a few Taiwanette veterans of the work visa scheme and IIRC the majority verdict was that OZ was a bit boring.
The local variety doesn’t impress me either. I still remember one taiwanese GF that I had a couple of years ago. I certainly don’t miss all her outbursts and drama. The girls are good for friendship but if you accept them as GFs, expect them to try taking over your life and friendship, career, appearance, time, hobbies, even your thoughts. Once was enough for me.[/quote]
And money. You forgot money.
But maybe that’s not just Taiwanese girls.
Any girl that goes home with you on the first night, after meeting her in a bar, is NOT relationship material. I guarantee she has done it on many more than one occasion, and is probably doing it back in TW.
While I have had a few one nighters, every relationship has definitely not started on a one night stand. Damn wife held out for a month. However, when I used to frequent bars, there were the same girls back everytime, going home with a foreigner, who was not interested in anything further, due to the sluttiness. So a few nights later, back home with another. Rinse, repeat.