So leave? 
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You probably know all of them in Taiwan. 
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Itās not massively different in Taiwan people are nicer here though and more easy going .
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Donāt make the mistake of believing all foreigners here work for $60-100,000. Some of us have jobs or businesses that arenāt location-dependent and allow us to live anywhere, and we choose Taiwan.
As for you, hereās a question: are you Taiwanese? If not, why did you leave your home country in the first place?
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Thatās not true. Nobody is banning foreigners enthusiastically. There is a virus that is spreading around and that has meant that almost all countries have banned international visitors. If you want to move here and you can prove you arenāt carrying the virus, you can still get a visa/ARC and move here. All you would need to do is complete your 14 day quarantine.
They havenāt banned foreigners. They have cancelled visa-free entry. (Temporarily)
If you have an ARC/APRC/JFRV, you can come back.
If you have a visitorās visa, you can come in.
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Iād say all Asian countries are nationalistic and insular to varying degrees, but Taiwan isnāt as bad as Korea, Japan or China (perhaps due to the relatively recent formation of its national identity).
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I know four in Taipei off hand. 
Learn Japanese? Why spend your life learning the language of a society that will never accept you?
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/mark-kitto-youll-never-be-chinese-leaving-china
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Is that a month??? Assuming this is all pre-tax
100,000 TWD - 3,349 USD - 2,700.72 GBP
Average UK monthly income 2300GBP - 85,000 TWD
UK tax rate on that is 20% plus 12% national insurance, plus 3% minimum pension contribution. so you are looking at roughly 1,600GBP cash in the bank - 59k TWD.
I think you need a bit of perspective on your situation. These arenāt sufficiently correct reasons to make to leave Taiwan. If moving to Japan is something you want to do to better yourself as a person or learn a new culture/language, then go for it, but thinking you are better off elsewhere by looking at perceived wages isnāt the right way to go about it. Do some more research on cost of living and quality of your life.
Good luck, whatever you decide to do.
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Japan is a suicide for the career. I do not understand how foreigners there can be happy working for 400k JPY. It is peanuts when compared to other countries. Part of the reason must be that they are stuck with gf/wife/kids and been drinking the kool-aid.
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Ever been to Japan or Korea?
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Or the PRC?
Welcome to 2020!
Guy
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I have a fair number of complaints about life here, but I always get a kick out of the super bitter ones who play the victim-card a bit too much. Being a loser is more a state of mind than anything else, and some really excel at it. So Iāll address them directly:
Psstā¦ to the bitter onesā¦ especially if youāre not marriedā¦ no one is forcing you to be here. You could always go back to the perfect utopia of your 9-5 office job in the UK or US making unsolicited calls to sell awful insurance plansā¦ or whatever awesome, slightly better paying, but soul crushing job you were doing before you thought your life would magically find meaning if you came to teach kids in a foreign country.
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Yes, some people always complain about something (anything). Here (Kaoshiung) well is hot but still cooler than Taipei and better life than in the EU or States after calling these places this weekend. Happy to be here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhipP2uuSk
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Thereās worse place to be stuck than Taiwan!
These are some of the very few people who managed to get in before the lockout and stick around for a while.
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Made by someone named P P 
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Jesus, heās a sensitive little petal isnāt he. A convenience store worker rolled their eyes, stop press, internet needs to know.
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well, we donāt know what else he faced that day. This was probably the feather that broke the camelās back.
what were you buying anyway? 
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