The area around KHH is quite cheap. But I would recommend living in the city center rather than near the airport.
Kenting is more expensive than both Kaohsiung city and KHH.
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What is the difference between Kaohsiung city and KHH?
KHH is the IATA code for Kaohsiung airport. Kaohsiung is the city.
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I know what KHH stands for but didnāt know that Kaohsiung city is not part of the KHH airport area.
Which areas/districts in Kaohsiung city should I live/stay in?
I read about the gas explosions from a few years ago. Which areas to avoid please?
I want to stay in a decent hostel in the city centre. Do you have any suggestions?
I definitely have no interest in my son going to school in Taiwan. We will be homeschooling with my wife and I sharing the teaching duties, with stuff we canāt handle going to tutors.
We have many reasons for liking Taiwan. It has a reasonable cost of living, high quality of living, access to fantastic nature, decent healthcare, as well as the ease of me finding part-time work if necessary. It also doesnāt hurt that flights to nearby Asian countries are cheap and plentiful.
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Yeah, Peddicordās book is great and well researched.
Money isnāt a concern in relation to most Asian countries - Europe is a completely different story.
Are you Taiwanese American? Iām curious how youāre going to find part time work because working for people not on your ARC can get you deportedā¦ Do you have open work rights?
Also check the rules here before home schooling, Iām not sure how it works here in Taiwan because there are compulsory schooling until middle school.
Iām not Taiwanese American, and my wife isnāt either. Iām hoping for the Gold card visa, we will see (which has an open work permit attached). If not, Iāll teach for the 5 years or so for my APRC ( the 20 or so hours a week I consider part time after working 70-80 hr work weeks), get my chops really polished, and then at the five year mark start performing/teaching.
Homeschooling is completely legal - there are several very active Facebook groups that give all the details.
On a side note, have you ever made any lutes?
I made guitars and ukeleles. Guitarmaking isnāt really my main business, because I havenāt really established myself enough to do it, but I do mainly repair work because thatās just the market I was able to findā¦ oddly enough right now it seems kinda dry, not sure why.
With my collection of instruments, you will definitely get some business - 3 banjos, 3 guitars, 1 fiddle with the stringed ones. We may try and trim them by selling a couple before we move though.
yea, I used to have two customers who are working musicians. One guy is really wealthy with probably 20+ guitars, and he always given me regular work. Not that he couldnāt do the work but I imagine his wife would seriously object to itā¦
The other guy won Golden Melody awards, is a working musician and had me restore some majorly damaged guitars to playable condition. I like the challengeā¦ much harder to do than building new ones because at least if you messed up on a new instrument (even if itās a commission), you always have the option of making some firewood and starting over. Canāt do that with restorations.
Unfortunately one went back to the states, and the other seems a bit too busy (he hasnāt given me much work even before I left for the states in 2014). Now that I came back, well I havenāt heard much from him.
foreign kids can attend school, but it is not compulsory for them.
Local homeschooled student should belong to a school, and get a graduation certificate from the school. Maybe foreign students can do that, if they need certificates of taiwanese education system.
You ābelongā to a school, but really you are just associated to that school. The child can opt to go to the school for gym, art, music, etcā¦ Or they can choose not to go. There are home visits and the curriculum has to be approved if a graduation certificate is to be issued, which for locals is mandatory.
https://hslda.org/content/hs/international/Taiwan/201408070.asp
I know some home school groups in Taiwan.
Honestly though I am not very enamoured with the ones that I know, they create a bit of a bubble . Although Iām sure there are plenty of pros too.
But the Chinese language skills and all thatā¦hmmmmm.
What happens if the kids want to stay in Taiwan later ?
Now if the kid is older and little / no Chinese skills there may not be a lot of choices.
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There are cheap(er) countries in Europe, like Spain.
True, but the amount that is required in pension income (for a retirement visa) for Spain is out of my reach (over $2400 US a month).
Some Italian towns will pay you and sell you a 1$ house. Thereās also plans for foreigners have no taxes for a few years in some places where the population is diminishing.
Catch isā¦those 1$ houses often need a lot of work sometimes. You canāt work on it yourself most of the time. You need special permits and people who are permitted to work on them. It might cost a lot.
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Ok ā¦ That is super weird. We just (like 2 minutes ago) watched a House Hunters International on Sicily that had the 1 Euro houses. Soooo Creepy!!
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