[quote=“enzo+”]Taiwan is No Country for Old Men.
Apart from my personal problems with humidity, 30-33 degrees most of the year, and too many earthquakes, the mentality here is on the whole unfriendly to elderly people: the lack of courtesy, the crazy traffic with total lack of respect for pedestrians, the scam artists …[/quote]
I’ve always thought life would be really hard for anybody confined to a wheelchair in Taiwan. There’s so few handicap accessible places. If you’re old and don’t like to climb stairs or weave around scooters on your walks, that’s also a problem.
Other than that, it’s not a bad place to live as a retired person. Life is very simple here, apartments are super easy to maintain, decent health care, and relatively low cost of living.
Despite that, I’m hoping to retire in the US instead of Taiwan, provided I have the budget for it. I still may end up back in Taiwan, however. Many people are drawn back to Taiwan after they leave. I do wonder, though, how much of Taiwan’s draw for those returnees is due to financial reasons.