You know how TomHill always starts threads asking for advice? Well…can I?
Question: Should my wife and I spend January and February of each year in Taiwan?
Details:
Me: Canadian. She: Taiwanese and Canadian (officially, like).
Both of us have lived in Canada since 2000.
I lived in Taiwan from 1993 to 1999.
We’re both in our early forties. We’re both freelance translators. No kids.
Yay:
This would be a perfect way of satisfying a desire to live in Taiwan temporarily, we could stay with her folks, which would be cool. Taiwan would be a pleasant diversion for us.
Our house here in the Grating White North could be rented out by students at the nearby chef’s school, which holds intensive courses just in Jan. and Feb. Our neighbour who runs a B&B does this, she goes away for these two months every year.
My wife adores the four seasons in southern Ontario and hates the summer heat in Taiwan, so the timing would be perfect.
We both miss our friends in Taiwan. We both miss Taiwan, period.
Nay:
I was never unnerved by earthquakes until 9-21 and 10-22. I left Taiwan for good on 11-1.
Erm…this past year I was blessed with generalized anxiety disorder.
We should go somewhere else for our working holiday. Anywhere else.
I think he would be in the South. And trust me, fall is a bit hot. While Taipei cools off quite quickly and often has a pleasant autumn, the weather down south is more comfortable after November. Remember that they’ll be leaving fairly low temps in Canada so the mercury hitting the low and mid 20s will be plenty warm. ‘Winters’ in the south are dry too (weatherwise that is).
[quote=“rousseau”]You know how TomHill always starts threads asking for advice? Well…can I?
Question: Should my wife and I spend January and February of each year in Taiwan?
Details:
Me: Canadian. She: Taiwanese and Canadian (officially, like).
Both of us have lived in Canada since 2000.
I lived in Taiwan from 1993 to 1999.
We’re both in our early forties. We’re both freelance translators. No kids.
Yay:
This would be a perfect way of satisfying a desire to live in Taiwan temporarily, we could stay with her folks, which would be cool. Taiwan would be a pleasant diversion for us.
Our house here in the Grating White North could be rented out by students at the nearby chef’s school, which holds intensive courses just in Jan. and Feb. Our neighbour who runs a B&B does this, she goes away for these two months every year.
My wife adores the four seasons in southern Ontario and hates the summer heat in Taiwan, so the timing would be perfect.
We both miss our friends in Taiwan. We both miss Taiwan, period.
Nay:
I was never unnerved by earthquakes until 9-21 and 10-22. I left Taiwan for good on 11-1.
Erm…this past year I was blessed with generalized anxiety disorder.
We should go somewhere else for our working holiday. Anywhere else.[/quote]
The yays outweigh the nays. I say go for it!
Wow, nothing but positive responses. Yeah, we’d be in the south, most likely Chiayi, so the weather wouldn’t be rainy every day. Believe it or not, I’ve come to appreciate Canadian winters again, at least those in the vicinity of Toronto, which is one of the warmest parts of the country. Three degrees with no wind and big fluffy snowflakes wafting gently to the ground on Christmas day combined with excellent central heating–what’s not to like? Indeed, the coldest winters I’ve ever endured were in Taiwan, so that will actually be a bit of a downside. It’s not a deal breaker, though.
Could I even get a JFRV, or are there conditions about length of residence per year in Taiwan attached to those?
Being in Taiwan with family for Chinese New Year would be a plus, for me. Christmas at home in a snowy clime, and then off to Taiwan for CNY where people actually care about it.
