If only cooking for 1-2 people, the convenience that frozen vegetables have a much longer shelf live compared to fresh ones can really help reducing food waste.
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Except if you want to lease a nice car at 100000 NTD/month
And have a higher vitamin content as it’s picked, processed and frozen on the same day.
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100k should be enough to lease a Ferrari, right? 
But yeah - so far the „good“ salaries in this thread are still not enough to afford a car.
Feels like a „good“ salary in Taipei is simply quite difficult to come by.
BMW X7 xDrive40i monthly rental will be around 100,000NT
quite a few people
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It is cheaper to eat meat everywhere now if you are eating better quality vegetarian and eating low quality meat. meat is factory tortured garbage 95 % of the time. Or ocean dredged nightmares. If plants could be grown in such a horrendous way, they would be cheaper as well. Some species can, but people are very spoiled and entitled now, so wont go for most of those usually. Thats why many mushrooms are cheaper than vegetables here. Most places i have been that have ports, decent logistics/infrastructure and supermarkets, meat is cheaper. However, that in no way is a good thing.
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My opinion, mushrooms are not exactly cheap.
Thats why people lease more expensive machinery…just saying. I suppose anyone waning to rent a car like that for that price probably cares little about spending money though. Spread it around, all the better. at least rental money stays here and lease mkbey probably largely goes abroad.
Some arent, many are cheaper in taiwan. The various colors of oyster mushrooms are 50 bucks a kg usually. Enokii, shiitake, and the bunch of others i dont know the names of are also fairly cheap. When you look at quantity, nutrition levels and price, mushrooms often beat out most better vegetables. Not the cheap fillers like rice, wheat, potato, sweet potato, cassava or the many processed fillers like tofu, noodles avery variation therof. But the other ones, mushrooms beat on price:health value ratios.
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Depends on your experience. If you have less than 10 years experience, anything above 75,000 a month is considered excellent, but it will only just be enough to support two adults and a child, and that’s if you live frugally. If you are earning more than 100k per month it is because you are in a very specialized and in demand role, or you are in management. 90% of Taiwanese would consider you ‘rich’ if you earned 100k per month based on the people I know who think my salary which is less than that is very high for my age.
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A lot of these types of threads seem to ignore that many of us don’t work full time. A salary for a normal 40hr job is not the same as monthly pay for a teacher who works fewer hours. I make ~65k/mo (not in Taipei) which it seems like a lot of people here would consider a mediocre salary. However, I only work 15 hours each week which must be taken into account I think.
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The thing I don’t get is that most of the responses here say that’s what they consider to be a “good” salary. Either we have a disproportionate number of highly paid expats here who don’t appreciate how good they have it to be calling that kind of salary merely “good” or people are confusing what it is to have an “excellent” salary with a “good” salary.
Really people think 65k is mediocre? Damn those people who tell u that are spoiled
Maybe you should’ve defined “good” when you asked the question.
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Such polls shouldnt exist anyway . There is no definitive answer no matter how long we keep discussing since good is subjective
Yes and good at what point in one’s life?
Example: retired guy who owns a flat in Shilin, but has a part-time consulting gig because he enjoys it.
Example: couple in their forties with two kids, trying to make sure the kids can get a good education.
So many variables make it impossible for this to be one answer for everyone.
Guy
excellent salary = NT 1,000,000+ / mth
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Everyone should have their own interpretation of what “good” means, but I would have thought that everyone would at least agree that it’s somewhere between “adequate” and “very good”.
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It’s okay to ask subhective questions.
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