No need for that at all, and not wasted effort. Nice quote!
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Thanks!
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Has anyone had any experience with shipping lately? Container prices have gone down. A lot. I got a quote for a half container the other day and the Taiwanese shipping company said $13,000usd. It’s only $2200 for a container. That seems to be a huge mark up. When I asked for a breakdown on costs the guy ghosted me.
https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/containers/2023-could-bring-all-out-price-war-container-lines
price war coming
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Yeah but will us “weiguoren” benefit from it? I did the math on that quote I was given. It would be cheaper to use the post office.
It will be a while before shipping companies would pass the savings to customers.
With China opening up, demand for containers would go up again.
our office had to send a box (30kg) to our office in Dubai. we were quoted 22,000 for air freight. with those prices I might as well buy a ticket and hand carry the goods.
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There’s a place in downtown Hsinchu called “123” that is VERY popular with Japanese Science Park visitors/workers. I used to eat there on occasion also. Good food but a little expensive.
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By Taipei standards, Hsinchu City’s 123 is not expensive. It does tasty stirfries and some familiar dishes to Japanese visitors, served piping hot with rice and cold beer.
I can totally see why Japanese guys especially would like it.
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I wish would stop raining in this shithole fucking depressing.
Huge row with the gf last night over nothing.
I need to leave shithole next year surrounded by mask wearing Taiwanese and rusty metal grills on apartments.
Looks like a shithole is a shithole.
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Yeah, the rain is getting me down too. Haven’t been out for a run for a few days now cos it’s just non-stop. I don’t mind the rain as such, but I’m pretty ancient now and I have to consider the possibility of slipping on the bathroom-tile sidewalks and breaking a bone.
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Come south, its the dry season, but may rain later today but most days has sun till the wet season starting April-May
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Yeah, come down to Kaohsiung. We had a toxic week a little while ago, when someone said there was rice chaff being burned in the fields, but since then only moderate/yellow air pollution.
If course green would be better, but i have to stay in the city for work purposes. Can’t you move to the south or even the east?
Taipei is not Taiwan. But i might head up for a visit if it ever stops raining, though
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Sadly stuck in Taipei, girlfriend’s work and family.
I’m supposed to be starting a business but I don’t have the energy or motivation in Taipei.
To crowded! finding a reasonable price selling space, putting up with the most unhelpful bank possible.
Talking to a Turkish guy sellin kebabs in Gongguan, he’s moving to Tainan I think he said because Taipei to expensive and business slow. 2 years ago good trade but now poor, French guy selling cakes and quiche said exactly the same, most sales now on Shopee.
Not sure if moving south is a better option for me?
I have exactly a year left on my ARC I quite sure I won’t be trying to renew.
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I think you are letting weather affect you too much.
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Too too too too ffs
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If your girlfriend is stuck in Taipei, Taiwan is still a better option than not Taiwan. How about Taichung? That’s where I’d go if my job wasn’t here
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You’re doomed to be free.
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Buy a kebab off your Turkish friend. Put on the kettle. Or get some beers, smokes, betelnuts whatever your poison is. Then watch some soccer. Boom. Next problem.
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