Super absurd! But I guess people like to optimize the return of the hand they were dealt…good thing is there is always hope for love anywhere, whoever you are!
Like those with a fetish for people having gonorrhea.
That must be why Taiwanese women keep going after foreigners instead of local men. 
Now you see my point
So you’re agreeing with my original post? High divorce rate + 媽寶 + mother in law moving in = foreigners do well. 
You probably do because this person already commented that they were in Taiwan like us above.
You still think it’s a Taiwanese mom who comments with buddy, dude and talks about ‘English teaching gigs’.
It’s a wind-up from somebody with a lot of time on their hands, probably breathing too little oxygen at high altitudes and they get lightheaded.
Could also be a 媽寶。 I do not interact with this kind of person in my social circle. Doesn’t mean I don’t walk past one on the street though.
Lol! Have you scheduled your colonoscopy? Told you your gut ain’t feeling right, bud!
You sure sound like a dude to me. 
I’ve literally never heard a woman say bud to me in my life
Definitely feel very special here! 
even using your little brain to speculate who I am! Send me your phone number and I can give you a call to prove I am a female.
Dare you!
Ps. Ever thought about the possibility of me working with a lot of men in my profession and pick up this kind of talk from my work?
Sure buddy I want to see that post op .
More affordable? Have you seen the price of housing here? You are a very confused person.
And yet people think it is absurd to think making 300K usd a year a norm, exactly!
Then you ask yourself who can afford that kind of housing?
Food and rent are indeed more affordable though. Owning is not so much. A side note, I wonder how many of those high earners foreigners actually own an apartment in Taipei?
I am gonna have a wild guess of their answers:
Luckily my wife is not materialistic and we don’t like that kind of culture in Taipei so we move to the south/middle for a simpler life.
She’s most likely an Americanized Chinese. They seem to quickly take on the attitudes and mannerisms of their host country. I’ve met a few Chinese women who talk like her, brassy and throwing around a lot of slang. I once had a date with a woman in Guiyang, which is the capitol of a relatively remote mountain province. “So why are you here? This place is a shithole!” She was there for a few months visiting her parents, but had been working in Australia for several years. She’d obviously adapted to Ozzie culture like a platypus to water. Talkative, outgoing, blunt, opinionated, forward - a true gal of Oz. I have quite a few more anecdotes like that one. I once told a woman who had gone to college in Ohio that she acted more American than Taiwanese. She replied that she didn’t know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment.
So do quantity surveyors and architects. Many are unemployed.
@ all : stop attacking each other. Stay on topic. Reminder: “online dating in Taiwan”.
Great post.
On the salary survey link on this site most foreign respondents weren’t actually teachers. And young Westerners you see here are mostly students these days rather than teachers Meanwhile the vast majority of foreign residents are actually from SE Asia, something like 90% followed by HKers, Japanese, Koreans.and Indians I guess. There’s very few Westerners or foreigners that actually reside in Taiwan permanently beyond the above groups. There’s only 38,000 permanent foreign residents in Taiwan.
Even mainland Chinese are very hard to find here. To me it’s really weird that somebody would come on here and start crapping on the small community of westerners/foreigners here who are in relationships with local people.
Also the reason why people stay here is not necessarily that they like the culture either. I know a bunch of people here because of family. I know another bunch for work and business as mentioned.
I also know quite a lot who make a living or whose main reason to be here are outdoor pursuits or they liked the freewheeling nature of the place (much less freewheeling these days ) but at the same time it is safe and stable and a handy base in Asia. Less and less though because Taiwan has started to become more and more expensive , Japan has been getting cheaper and other countries in SEA such as Vietnam are developing quickly.
Is it any good?
Asking for a single friend. 
Online dating sucks. For starters there’s no way to gauge chemistry unless you meet in person. Old school dating had its drawbacks, but look at the stats. More people are single and having less sex, claim higher rates of loneliness and dissatisfaction with their relationship lives - these aren’t anecdotal, these assertions are backed up by numerous polls. And now the 21st century has spawned incel culture, which we have always had but not at this weird level. 5 seconds of googling got me these results:
https://www.datingadvice.com/online-dating/online-dating-sucks
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnlineDating/comments/13avt3y/everything_related_to_online_dating_sucks/
https://www.regain.us/advice/dating/6-reasons-why-online-dating-sucks-and-how-to-cope/
Yes, I’ve tried it. It sucks and I’ll never try it again. I had 0% success. I generally have gotten 50/50 odds in meatspace, so I’ll continue to stick to the tried and true methods that have worked for humans for thousands of years - arranged marriages to cement family alliances.
Good punchline.
For more discussion on the impacts of online dating, I’d recommend the work of NYU Prof Scott Galloway:
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