I had 4 credit cards and a phone contract with a regular ARC. I don’t know why people keep saying they can’t. I didn’t need a guarantor either.
British common law.
Hong Kong PR is citizenship in all but name.
It doesn’t really make sense though. If your country doesn’t allow it, they’ll revoke yours anyways when they find out.
For this, I don’t care what people call me. I want the paper. People say I am not real Italian because I was born in Canada.
Canadians will say I am not real Canadian because my Italianness is extremely prominent in many aspects of my life.
I got the papers, that’s all the validation I need.
If I have kids, I’d be like, Ok. I do the English, Wife does the Taigi. Outside does the Mandarin, and the nanny we imported from Italy will do the Italian.
I think they mean they can’t do it with “dignity” LOL
One of my favourite Chinese speaking people (from rural China actually) has a pHd in linguistics and brought this up once in conversation.
He thinks it’s strange when he’s in Australia calling Australian’s 外國人 when he’s speaking Chinese. He knows it’s odd and he knows he is the 外國人 and when he is speaking English to Australians, this makes sense.
But it’s what is normal in a chinese speaking communities and he uses the term 外國人 because it is not a derogatory term and he feels that waiguoren is the most appropriate term that would come across as normal in general conversation.
And he refuses to use derogatory terms towards the locals of his now home.
I don’t think it’s a class thing. Just a habit. Same as how Taiwanese people call China 大陸 but don’t really think of China as the ‘mainland’ anymore
I don’t have a PhD but he can call the locals just Locals or Australians.
Since I renounced my superannuation account has grown and my property rights and Government pension entitlement (when I’m old enough) hasn’t changed. My right to work hasn’t changed, my tax obligations haven’t changed, my right to work in NZ hasn’t changed. But this has nothing to do with Taiwan and everything to do with my home country, Australia.
Do I think renunciation is fair under Taiwan’s current laws? No.
But I’m grateful my country cares about the people who were citizens.
Taiwan makes everything more difficult for ARC holders but virtually nothing impossible. A lot of the complaints you made above are common complaints but it’s the ‘can’t’ that is incorrect.
I got sick of getting told 外國人沒辦法 then having to argue. In the future I’ll just waive my passport in their face and ask them if they’re the foreigner. I’ve had to argue nearly every single time I had to deal with an official in Taiwan. And I won every time. I wouldn’t be a ROC citizen now if I hadn’t stood up for myself. So the non-legal advantage is that life in Taiwan will be easier, with much the same possibilities
It’s over rated lol
Oh also I could enter Nauru if I wanted to 
And Iran. It’s on my bucket list.
The attitude is totally different in Canada.
Even government officials subscribe to ‘why would you ever leave the best country in the world? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out’
CIC officials actually responded with idignation to my MP for even thinking about giving up Canadian citizenship
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Reminds me of what I said to a Canadian official years ago at a Diplomatic event in Asia.
“Love Canadian landscapes, it’s just a shame about the people. Regional, myopic Tim Horton drinkers that bore me to death with chatter about hockey, mediocre healthcare and second rate coffee/donuts.” Then I said Albertans and Quebecois are the exceptions. Lots of people laughed but the official didn’t.
It’s such nativism that is behind arrogance of questioning people that want to leave or renounce.
Maybe he just didn’t want to offend the population he was elected/appointed to serve.
Funny when educated people are intentionally wrong and defend it hehe.
It really is one of the weird ones. Habit sure, but just beams with ignorance and often arrogance. As a PhD, one likely wouldn’t think much of is paper editing skills 
Me and the wife lovingly and jokingly just call these types of people that are at the center of the universe 中人. That way we don’t offend with cultures, race, gender, education or whatever. Or ourselves when we catch ourselves doing something selfish.
It’s not venomous or hurtful. But boy does it have a superiority ring to it.