Well, I am software services 
Maybe I can help woth that âtransition thingâ. 
@Marco Canadian born and bred but is âItalianâ so can also claim to be European.
Iâm one of the ânew Taiwaneseâ a true mountain compatriot (ć±±è).
You do realize Taiwan ROC is already independent. Has its own government, own military, own currency, own trade relations.
Europeans wont put boots on the ground for Ukraine so why should the USA.
Canât wait for the full blown invasion from China. Will make your stay in Taiwan interesting. If China wants to invade it doesnât need any excuse.
So you are immigrating from a current war zone to Taiwan? 
Maybe you over estimate your ability to change Taiwan.
And I wasnât aware that Forumosa had been taken over by the same kind of intolerant liberals who tell everyone anywhere else to âshut upâ if you dare not to agree with their social agenda.
Telling someone who isnât interested in your precious âsocial movementsâ to stay off the island amounts to just the same.
Yeah, you call them moderators, because I for one and sick & tired of that mindset of liberal intolerance. I canât stand it anymore! 
All I want is a place where I can work hard, pay a reasonable amount of taxes and not be bothered with idiotic diatribes about pronouns, identity politics, CRT - Jeezus H. Christ, I ended up memorizing most of that bullcrap!
I believe in representative democracy. Emphases on representative. Meaning you elect a member of parliament or a senator, to do the politicking for you.
You donât like whatâs happening in your country, then you vote for somebody else. If your fav loses the election, tough luck and better try next time.
Your personal sensitivities do not give you the right to occupy University campuses, blockade road traffic, defile public monuments or keep hounding your opponents in Internet forums.
And now I ask one more time, that you just leave me alone. Unfortunately I couldnât find a block function in here, otherwise I would have used it by now.
Maybe I never said I wanted to âchange Taiwanâ. But I also never assume that people are not ready to change, just because I am not.
And if the Taiwanese are as smart as I think they ought to be, then they surely will not just sit on their hands and wait until the last NVDIA and TSMC factories have been relocated overseas.
Expanding into the software service sector is the next logical move. Intentionally allowing yourself to become poorer canât be the rave in every âWesternâ nation on planet earth.
lolz what a comment.. I guess you Germans are so much smarter 
I guess thatâs why you are moving to Taiwan. Iâm Taiwanese, Iâm a pauper living in the wilderness. Life wasnât meant to be easy. I cannot create any software I can only use it. Not very smart am I.
There is very little support among the public for declaring a Republic of Taiwan or otherwise âdeclaringâ independence. @anon24369109âs point that Taiwan is independent already is the position of this administration and the last one. Itâs a version of keeping the status quo and is policy for a very good reason: the vast majority of people in Taiwan are fine with the status quo at least for the foreseeable future.
The likelihood of Taiwan declaring independence is very low.
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I think what we are trying to tell you is that social movements, and especially the anti-nuclear power movement, are important in Taiwan. You donât have to like them or agree with them but you do need to understand their role in civil society if you want to understand why Taiwan is closing down its current nuclear power plants.
All I want is a place where I can work hard, pay a reasonable amount of taxes and not be bothered with idiotic diatribes about pronouns, identity politics, CRT - Jeezus H. Christ, I ended up memorizing most of that bullcrap!
In general, you have come to the right place. No one will bother you about this stuff unless you actively seek it out. And if you donât speak much Mandarin, you might have trouble finding it on your own.
There are identity politics in Taiwan about being Taiwanese or Chinese but they shouldnât concern or affect you in any way. Rest easy!
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Well, those are also the people that coined the term with political purpose in the first place.
Does Nvidia even have factories in Taiwan? Donât they mostly design chips and some other hardware that other people like TSMC manufacture? Why would they need factories in Taiwan?
TSMC has something like 20 major facilities in Taiwan (including several under construction) and a handful overseas. It takes 4-5 years to get a new fab up and running. Itâs going to be a while before the last TSMC factory relocates overseas.
Nonetheless, Taiwan has to think about the next big thing. Chances are it will be some kind of highly advanced technical maufacturing like biotech and medical devices.
You might want to read this book sometime. While Taiwan is not China, many of the same lessons apply.
You had many starry-eyed predecessors preaching the software creed back in the 90s, more recently, there was a wave of Internet 2.0 and blockchain folks in the 2010s. Taiwan still doesnât have a robust software industry even though it has many talented developers and the government wants this industry badly. Hence our skepticism.
But go for it. Smart entrepreneurial people often do very well here in all kinds of fields including software. They usually are flexible enough to adapt to Taiwan and accept it as it is though. A degree of humility is also usually present.
They donât have factories in Taiwan. They have R&D and testing teams here, and is looking to build a server farm as well. Companies like Google and NVIDIA want to place server farms in Taiwan for the green energy potential.
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Ah so.. let @MacArthur come over and try. The time for honouring oneself is at hand.
If he he going to talk about Nvidia factories which donât exist in Taiwan it shows he has some more research to do on his new found place of abode. TSMC will still be a world leader in high end chipset manufacturing for decades to come.
We need some new crusaders to move to Taiwan and upgrade it to the next new big thing. Maybe President Xiâs China will invade in 2027 so China can get revenge for its 100 years of humiliattion.
I thought he was already here for some reason!
From the posts it seems not yet unless I am in error.
If so, there is little point trying to discuss these matters with him. Heâll just have to come and see for himself.
Well @MacArthur wrote this today
" I wouldnât want to emigrate from one war zone to another."
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Who?
The person from Germany.