Better than an ugly canvas sign on the side of random buildings or some scooter parked at the corner of a street blaring their campaigns propaganda that no one gives a shit about.
My wife’s immediate family has two kids doing training for dentistry overseas. The government told them after they pass the Taiwan exam they will have to wait in line for a license behind Taiwan trained dentists…which may take years. Maybe just do like this guy and skip the licensing process.
Yesterday morning, my wife got a semi-urgent call from her mother who forgot to warn her earlier. Yesterday was such and such day in lunar calendar so 1)cannot wear black clothes and 2)cannot cut/trim your fingernails. Unfortunately, my wife was already wearing black…a sure sign we are on the wrong side of the gods…or at least tempting our fate.
With the ease of shipping stuff in Taiwan every week we receive packages from family and friends…on top of stuff my wife orders. This is the new hobby among people we know. Why buy just one item…when you can buy 3 or 4 and send to your friends?
My wife’s family sends stuff back and forth almost every week. If one person receives something then they send some to other family members. If my wife rejects one family member then the stuff is sent to another family member who sends on to us anyway. My wife can say over and over to not send but that just seems to spur them on even more.
Last week we received bananas from her sister. We were in the middle of eating a large bunch of bananas from our neighbor and we also throwing out another bunch of bananas from another neighbor. The result is that every banana from her sister was thrown in our compost pile. She thought we might not want us to send the bananas so she sent first then called to inform us.
Friends send stuff and we have no idea why. They just say they think we might like it. I think they just like spending money and we are good excuse to receive their stuff.
The 7/11 near our house has a long shelf always full of packages for people to pick up. They have a warehouse room but is full also.
We get so many packages various shipping company drivers recognize us when they see us in other places.
Yep. Appears the village was being run by some shady gangster types, earning up to 300k per day. Their contract was due to end on 7/31 so they painted over the artwork out of spite:
No way they were earning 300k a day. Was there in June, and the place was not very busy, with three shops selling merch. 300k a month maybe. It’s also way smaller than the pictures make it look. It’s actually just a couple buildings.
i was surprised too, considering the location is free entry. I remember they did ask for visitor donations which in theory would be easy way to launder money, similar to Taiwanese temples.
Edit: Actually 1000 visitors in 1 day would have been possible when Chinese tour groups were allowed into Taiwan. Then each visitor just needs to spend $300, which seems realistic.