I understand that. But I’d like to see more pedestrian only areas with lots of open space in cities for activities and markets. That way people can get the things they need and have fun things to do near their homes.
You and me both. in fact, i think deep down most people want this. new cities are easy to construct for this. Old cities are insanely hard and expensive to manage this. If you want to make one road artery in taipei more open, you need to knock down buildings. imaging 2km of high density buildings and paying off every condo owner as well as the strata gods for each place long the road. a couple km would probably be nearing the trillion dollar mark. Thats why land management and city planning is acually so.important, but most places have failed. Lets hope for the future as its too expensive to tear down and rebuild. Unless you are chinese styled dictators and you tear down anyway and dont care about the people. also not ideal.
Still, for convenience andssuch, i would say taipei is far ahead of most western cities.i would say even onbpar, or even better, than tokyo. And i am fairly open about my hate for taipei haha.
Taipei isn’t an international city. In that regard it must doesn’t stack up for sure. In terms of livability it’s really pretty good . Culturally I think it’s a bit meh lacking in music and good festivals and sports events and it doesn’t have the Taiwanese/Chinese folk culture like down South.
I ran the numbers on the place I’m currently renting and at 1% the mortgage payment would still be 3x my rent now.
They actually have but they are claimed by people, built shut or blocked, not level.
Those are alleys; walk on the side. The main streets in Taipei all have decent covered sidewalks. Overall, this does nothing in relation to it being walkable or not, but that is just me.
Depends where you buy. I bought multiple houses and my combined mortgage is less than renting a single place on Taipei.
Try wheeling someone around on a wheelchair. Or have surgery, or just being old and pain filled. Taipei is best of taiwan, and its already mediocre. The rest of taiwan is pretty much a dice roll for the less fortunate. Or even letting your kids ride their bike along the road…good?
I completely agree with you. As I noted in a post above, if you have any mobility issues, Asia is likely not for you; there seems to be little to no attempt to accommodate mobility issues throughout most of Asia as a whole.
However, in relation to just being plain walkable, I don’t see it really being an issue. Bike friendly? That is another thing altogether, especially with kids involved.
Assuming you die at 90, your kids will likely be in their 60’s and retired by the time you die, and will already be living in their own house (likely paid off too). I don’t think they’ll need to live in your house.
Besides, wouldn’t it be a little awkward for all your kids and their spouses to live in the same house? Which couple gets to sleep in the master bedroom and which couple has to sleep in the guest room?
You must be new here.
Really? I never saw any mobility issues in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, or Singapore. These are all modern, industrialized countries in Asia which are the most comparable to Taiwan. Hell, even Mainland China has better sidewalks than Taiwan.
Do YOU know any retired couple in Taiwan in their 60’s who are living in the same house as their siblings and their spouses?
Taiwanese people? I don’t think retired ones are living with their own siblings, but most older Taiwanese people I only know because I know their adult children, who live with them. Some of them (the adult children) are married with kids. The ones who have more money or bought real estate long ago have their married adult children living in the apartment downstairs or across the street, but there’s the expectation that they will be hanging out with the parents for most of their waking hours. I can’t think of any unmarried Taiwanese adults I know that don’t either live with their parents, live within a few minute walk, or have some sort of mutual ownership of a “family house” that they are expected to spend most of their time in. A lot of them might have left for a time to live in a different city, but all of them have ended up back in their parents’ house. It’s a very different culture than the West, where some people think you should move out when you reach college age and only visit your parents for a maximum of a week at a time.
I had a few students that I tutored when I lived in the boonies whose whole extended family basically owned a row of townhouses. The children didn’t even live in their “parents’” house – their bedrooms and toys were in the grandparents’ house a few doors down, with aunts and uncles in the houses in between. No one seemed to think that was unusual except for me.
Right, a retired old couple living with their adult children and grandchildren is normal. However, living with their fellow retired sibling and spouse is not. Because they have their own children and grandchildren to live with.
Hm of course.
Basically I can walk on highways as well as on sideways.
I just don’t feel safe to do it.
They probably don’t want to.
Hehe, thats sounds about as white as it comes. I agree, but taiwanese usually have the opposite approach.
Yes, LOTS. Of course, taiwanese people. the foreigners here dont have the same rights and privelages nor the long history of gene passing here, so it isnt possible to compare fairly.
Well that’s not typical in Taiwan. Usually the oldest generation that’s still alive live with their kids and grandkids (and maybe even great-grandkids) but not with their own siblings, because their siblings have their own kids and grandkids and great grandkids to live with.