Yes, amongst other things. Bicycles and shit everywhere. Try walking from Canal Saint Martin to Montmartre at night as well
Anyway the question wasn’t about civil engineering, it was about opportunities to walk around with headphones on. I provided examples.
Based on what I brought back to Taiwan in my suitcase after my first holiday back home (UK):
Big bottles of sunscreen (400ml) still do not seem to be as available here, although I have ssen them recently in a surfing B&B on the east coast.
Insect repellent with DEET. Many local brands promote themselves as not containing DEET, but then you get to Taitung railway station and a big board above the entrance advises travellers to use repellent with DEET. You can find it in some pharmacies for about NT$200 for 60ml. Icaridin/Picaridin is more expensive at about NT$500 for 100ml. When it comes to the awful tiny black midges, whose bites if scratched may last for days, clothes make a great defence if you are out of spray, because unlike mosquitoes they only only bite if they land on your skin.
Something I have not brought over but really wish I had: A beach windbreak. Some beaches, particularly those near Hsinchu, can get really windy here. Sometimes you get lucky and there is enough driftwood or old refridgerators around to make a barrier, but othertimes not.
The culture difference/ way people will react (this may be the same as Shanghai; I’ve only passed through. If so, please skip): Sometimes like they don’t see you, like Richard Ashcroft in that music video, which I put down to short sightedness. Sometimes people will avoid eye contact like their life depends on it. Sometimes people will stare, but then if they are not children, will pretend to not have been when you notice them. Some people will switch to English when talking near you “to put you at ease”, and some will see you and start talking about foreign things to each other. Sometimes you will get asked personal questions by strangers, for example, “Are you a virgin?” And sometimes random strangers will do things like buy you a cold drink if they are standing with you at a bus stop with no shelter on a hot day.
Some old people may seem to be in a parallel universe intersecting with this one in which it is okay to do things like cross a busy road wherever they like, push you out of their way, or walk into a shop straight up to the counter or into a train ignoring the other people waiting in line. And local people may choose to back them up in this behaviour. I put this down to them just wanting to do things the way they always did them before things changed. Related to this, people may attempt to interupt your transaction at a cashier as though their life depended on it and waiting for you would kill them. Having lived in Guangxi and Sichuan, I guess maybe it will seem a breeze compared to having to elbow your way to the ticket desk to buy a train ticket.
In social settings people seem more likely to state the obvious or make awful jokes instead of standing around awkwardly not knowing what to say. People will laugh or smile, seemingly at you, but most likely because they are nervous.
One thing related to all of these observations that I wish I had heard of before discovering it the wrong way: A local game/way of thinking called “He who takes it seriously, loses”. This may be related in some way to face, but (as you will know) there is much more to face than that.
With food, I wish I had known about the now obvious (island - duh!) fondness for fish sauce or dried shrimps for flavouring. If you love all this stuff then no problem. I’ve personally seen and ordered dishes called simply fried lamb or beef stew rice, plates of vegetables or rice triangles called zongzi, only to be unable to eat it due to the fish satay sauce or tiny dried prawns that were not mentioned anywhere, and have learnt to ask for their presence before ordering anything.
With traffic, one that I read but then forgot one time and still regret it: Never race away when the lights change to green without checking for vehicles running the red light across you, especially on a narrow intersection. Running red lights after they have just changed to red is habitual, and some people will speed through even if they admit they have seen other people have accidents doing the same thing at the same intersection.
Oh wow. Taiwan IS one of the cities in China Mieville’s “The City and the City”. Many things make so much more sense now.
Exactly…And always always give yourself a few seconds after the green man appears before you start crossing. Don’t ever walk out on the road without looking first !
Do not be the first antelope to attempt to cross the crocodile infested river.
Yes an annual health check is included. But I think it might just be because my company puts me on a nice insurance plan.
Namaste Taiwan in 師大夜市 has amazing Indian food for 150-200 NTD. Not a restaurant though, it’s a stall with only one table where you can dine.
That pretty much captures the spirit of the road here doesn’t it. 
Guy
You know I am still searching for this! The only Namaste I know is on Anhe Road.
EDIT: OK, these guys call themselves NAMASTE TAIWAN. There’s no address or pin on google maps, but there are reviews, and one of them shows the address on a photo: Lane 16 Taishun Street at Longquan Street in Taipei (in the heart of the Shida Night Market).
Guy
Yeah, I remember the owner told me some technicality prevented them from opening a Google Business listing. Not sure exactly what. Maybe because they’re just a stall in the middle of a road?
The photos have me convinced. I know where I’ll be dining tonight!
Guy
You’re still a clown. 
Interesting - that could explain why some of my favorite back-alley little stalls and restaurants don’t appear on Google Maps. Yet, curiously, equally … casual? … establishments next door do appear.
How can you be bored? You’re seemingly always out somewhere.
You can rent one from almost every street corner now, but you need the license.
When a man is bored of Taipei, he is bored of life.
Taoyuan, on the other hand…
Usually communities have their roof tanks cleaned every 3-6 months. Bigger communities have an extra storage tank in the basement as buffer before pumping it up to the roof tank. Houses or 4-5 story buildings/apartments have to figure out their own.
I’m always out but I get bored in Taipei because it’s a busy working all the time city and for the same reasons people leave Taipei on weekends and holidays.
I mean it’s safe and extremely convenient and plenty of coffee shops.
Taipei is a city like any other , you will get bored of the same places after a while. Lack of big sports events or festivals but that’s normal here .
Oh man, I could not disagree more with that statement.
Yeah I don’t get that. My first couple years I searched and searched and then realized Taipei is just Taipei.
I’ve continued to search ever since.
Taipei’s more fun when you seek out and learn about the edges.
Been loving my meals in Burmatown on Huaxing Street, for example. Who knew spicy tasty affordable fare was available in this way? 
Guy