Puli’s notorious garbage pile (with no solution in sight) continues to get attention as legislative candidates jockey for votes before the January election. One eye-opening report is here:
This report got me thinking. How could such a problem accumulate without a solution? What sorts of incompetents are running Nantou County? So I starting looking at the historical timeline of leadership, which looks something like this:
Yes that’s right. Aside from one brief four year interlude in the early 2000s during which Nantou had a DPP magistrate, it’s been blue all the way. And from what I’ve observed in Taiwan, it’s the counties and cities that (almost) never switch things up where things (almost) never improve.
It still astonishes me that this place thought they could market themselves as a long-stay destination for Japanese retirees. Then and now, it appears they don’t have a clue about what they are doing.
That’s the report I linked above, via twitter. Thanks for embedding a more accessible version.
Yes, as I wrote above legislative candidates are talking about it (or more accurately simply begging for authorities outside Nantou to clean up the mess).
also water worries, people still do not trust tap water something Japanese will find 3rd world. There are still water trucks for drinking water here. I still avoid tap water even to boil pasta or noodles in
