I know there has been talk of a male bias on forumosa but the real bias is in fact a Taipei bias.
I’m damn tired of hearing about foods with fancy names that I need to google to find out what they bloody are.
I’m damn tired of hearing about your Belgium beers, Italian breads, your cold-cut meats, your high-class restaurants, your MRT babes, your bus lanes, your concerts, your satellite TV.
This is neo-colonialist metro-fascism!!
Let me be the first to give this thread a 
Sounds like a classic case of Taipei-envy.
Where are you Almas? I thought you were Gaoshiung, they don’t have those things there? My apologies if your not in GS!
And Steve, you’re in Taoyuan! We have TESCO and nobody can take that away from us! Also we can be in Taipei in 45 minutes or less…sheesh!
BFM, everyone envies Taipei, you guys have the Taipei 101!
Taipei just happens to be where most of the action is. Why don’t you come up and take a look.
A Tamshui neo-colonialist metro-fascist.
And BTW, almas john, it’s “Belgian” beer and not “Belgium” beer, just like it’s French cheese and not France cheese.
We also enjoy a wide selection of American microbrew beers and even some English ones. 
Perhaps you’d be more comfortable over at www.taipeilife.com
I know how you feel. I have to jump over too many threads because they just don’t concern me.
Wait… it’s not Forumosa.com that is to blame, it’s us. We don’t post enough threads about what goes on where we are. Geez, let’s get posting.
Matsu temple, anyone?
I wouldn’t be caught dead living in Taipei.
Actually, Almas, a lot of the cutest MRT babes are Chiayi girls who have migrated to the metropolis. If you’d do a better job of charming their pants off down there, they wouldn’t need to run off to Taipei in search of a more thrilling life.
Omni, you fiend. Do you feel no pity for those poor Chiayi country girls who have been lured to that Babylon of Sin by the glamour of the bright lights? Alone and naive, these girls are easy prey to the foreign wolves who stalk the city’s bars and streets. Just ask two of the Forumosan Taipei Wolves - Mother T and Tigerman.
I fear for their chastity with all my heart. How gladly would I clasp every one of those defenceless waifs to the protective comfort of my capacious breast rather than see them exposed to the depredations of such lascivious predators. But I fear that my wife of these six months past would be all too likely to misconstrue the nobility of my motives if I were to do so.
Most certainly, there are only 2 active posters from the hill here, and another 3 from Taoyuan country, of which I have met 1 (Steevieboy).
I would suggest that anyone mentioning “Taipei” or promotes anything to do with “that place” is instantly banned. It might lead to a drastic drop in the number of posters, but heck, they are all Taipei newbies anyway. 
Sounds like someones a bit jealous cause they don’t live in Taipei and get to enjoy all those wonderful things! 
Awwww…country farmers feeling a little jealous of those slick city boys?
Although I’m a bit jealous of you Almas John, I miss the country side…
The environment I live in is better than that of any of the compressed concrete-cage dwellers inhaling the pollution of Taipei town.
I just spent two days in Kaohsuing (I had to write exams for uni). I didn’t want to come back to Chiayi. It’s so nice to walk on streets that almost have a foot path. And heaps of nice resturants!! And lots of Starbucks. And more than 2 department stores, or English bookstores. I want to move!!!
Well Jiayi is hardly the best place in Taiwan, you haven’t been to the hill yet. Even though we are located in the sticks, we do have footpaths here - and burly guards keeping the toudoufu peddlers away.
the hill is nice. very much like living in north america. quiet, calm, clean but so darn moist and wet in winter. haven’t seen another place like it in taiwan.
Isn’t National Chung Cheng University in Jiayi? That is one cool looking, somewhat space age campus in the middle of the countryside. I recall they even had a driving range there.