It to me seems quite high number, if over a year it be near a million.
But as noted, seems others are moving in. So more diverse Taiwan?
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But nearly the same number entered.
It’s odd how this always seems to be the case.
need demographics on who is leaving, and who is entering
but we can probably already guess
If it’s migrant workers replacing migrant workers the stats are pretty meaningless.
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Chinese version, mentions them as immigrants/emigrants so maybe not temp workers
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It just seems unlikely that every month the inbound and outbound numbers are almost identical.
Didn’t read it. But if it’s about workers, been close makes total sense. Government controls numbers in a way. If a Filipino is told to fuck off, they need a new one. Grossly over simplifying it, but it seems like a non thing.
If it’s taiwanese citizens leaving by the 10s of thousand monthly it would be an exodus like hong kong. But it doesn’t seem to be that
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I think we are are all well aware that very few women in Taiwan have children unless they are married.
We also know that the number of marriages is declining.
The gendered imbalance in domestic work/caregiving is probably part of the reason. According to the EY, married women do 4.41 hours of unpaid housework and caregiving a day while their spouses do 1.48 hours.
If so, I don’t really see what the government can do about it. Sure, education can help but surely thee patterns of behavior are primarily modeled and learned in the family.
We aint living in such a place. These kind of clueless views are part of thr problem
Actually the main driver of low fertility is the opposite process .
When I looked into it it’s women’s educational attainment and their participation rate in the workforce.
That’s the main driver worldwide . East Asia adds on a whole other ball of crap with work expectations and high property prices.
And yes for sure the desire to be able to take foreign holidays when they want and not to have to pay so much in education fees is definitely a factor.
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Are you raising children in Taiwan? I’ve raised three and it was a financial nightmare.
And were they all emaciated and suffering war and starvation? If not then you should originally have said its hard to raise kids and expensive.. no shit, that’s why we are having this problem.
The youngest is special needs and is scarred for life from the way he was treated growing up in Taiwan. If I’d known what I know now I would never have had kids in Taiwan.
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It’s ok my kids are fine going to public school here.
It’s not Mogadishu lol. They don’t do drugs and still fairly innocent. No vaping no teachers getting assaulted by students. About 26 students to a class.
On the other hand my school WAS Mogadishu at times . The only thing we were missing was the helicopters whirring overheard. We even had flying missiles !
My kids have long days in school but never complained about fighting or bullying.
I will say I have strong opinions about how private industry has coopted the system and takes far too much of kids time and parents money in Taiwan Many kids are on a pointless hamster wheel to nowhere here as the society stresses endless competition for what in reality are very plentiful college places. That is a problem! It’s possible to not push the kids so hard, some parents do it, but most are stuck on that hamster wheel.
By the way there ARE plentiful choices for kids to do vocational education here, from nursing hairdressing, aircraft mechanics, chefs and military there really are a lot of options. That is definitely a less stressful pathway.
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The stats are probably pretty raw without any cleaning up. Might include students coming and going or something. Taiwan doesn’t do insight very well. Computer chips good, analysis and introspection, not so good.
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I think that might be a problem anywhere though. I mean probably worse in some places, certainly where I’m from.
As for whether it’s expensive to raise kids here or somewhere else I only really know here.
There all kinds of surveys that mention the cost out there but it’s like how long is a piece of string.
You want to send them to public, cheap private school or expensive private school ..send them to kindergarten , buxiban or none ?
Music and art classes or nothing.
Foreign holidays or local.
Eat out a lot or eat at home.
Camping or hotels?
Regular uni or ivy league or masters overseas ?
It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to have kids it really doesn’t. You just send them public schools and no buxibans and maybe go camping locally and find cheaper clubs or activities for them.
But I do think more than 3 or 4 would be pretty
challenging in the cost stakes unless you just don’t take foreign holidays with them etc 
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The government shouldn’t do too much or it comes across as oppression. As we have learned throughout history, ie. Oppressing family life. The key thing with education (and I mean teaching ethics, critical thinking and logic not “how to clean the floor”), it’s generational. Not what people like to hear today, but it is required to take action today in order to have hope for tomorrow.
Perhaps a deeper root of the problem is how people are ever more short sighted, selfish and impatient. It’s a hard one to accept given the stimulus drives of today. But it ain’t wrong…
Where did you go to school?
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