Moving to Sanxia is again in my mind. We are family with 2years old baby and we are loooking for a bigger, better apartment. At the moment we live in Taipei, Xinyi.
How is Sanxia now? Is it a good place to live? How’s the pollution comparing to Taipei City? What’s cool about Sanxia and what sucks (let’s not talk about transportation to city, everyone knows about it)?
I live in Sanxia (near Taipei University) for almost 2 years already. After living in Xinyi and Xindian, I really think it was a good decision, specially after my son was born.
You can take a walk outside without worrying about scooters on vendors on the sidewalk, pollution is much lighter than in Taipei and you can find everything nearby, from supermarkets to schools, shops to parks and so on.
A noticeable thing when going around in Sanxia is that the predominant color is green, from parks and trees, instead of gray from streets and buildings.
Besides, with the same price on rent, you can have a much better apartment than your would find in Taipei.
Btw, all that is in the area that I live, if you go to old Sanxia is a different story…
I have lived here for 10 years a couple of blocks from Taipei University. One good thing about that is the university campus is big and you can ride bikes or walk without having to worry about traffic ( same goes with the front of most of the apartment buildings. They have wide plazas ). The campus also has picnic areas and a big quadrangle that you see people flying kites and such on ( I once saw them launching a hot air balloon )Plus there is a pond there with ducks that I am sure your child would like. Now if you go downtown towards Old Street, that is where the sidewalks disappear ( covered with vendors ) and the traffic is pretty heavy. In walking distance of plenty of bus stops. The one near me has buses that take you to the Yongning MRT station. Though they are projecting an MRT station to be complete here in about 10 years.
Reviving this thread to say that some of Sanxia’s history is really interesting, especially connected to the indigo trade via the river to Bangka (in Mandarin after 1945: Wanhua) and out to the world. Like much of Han Cheung’s writings on Taiwan history, this latest feature length piece is a great read.
Guy
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