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Rural Taiwan. Very good and affordable health care. Super fast and cheap mobile Internet.
by ChemSpider 5y ago
Rural Taiwan. Very good and affordable health care. Super fast and cheap mobile Internet.
- cloudedcordial 5y agoVery good food, too. The downside of Taiwan is to learn the local language.
- mdp2021 5y agoWhich, unless I am terribly wrong, involves ideographic characters and not alphabetic. This should be a major obstacle.
- robjan 5y agoThe written language is Traditional Chinese.
- mdp2021 5y agoExactly. I can recommend the work for Shaolan, Chineasy, for having the basics for Chinese language ideograms - and she is from Taiwan. Unfortunately, if ideograms is all you have in the place, it will take quite some time and effort to be proficiently integrated.
- contingencies 5y agoHaving cycled much of it I would recommend the east coast around Taidong. Best pineapples ever.
- mikeho1999 5y agoActually, I would say anywhere in Taiwan other than Taipei, you'd be fine on $1k USD / month... so for those that would still prefer urban/city life, you should definitely consider Kaohsiung or Tainan -- both urban centers that are in the southern part of Taiwan. Weather may be a bit more of an issue though (especially in the summertime), but cost of living is still very very reasonable. Agreed on the language though -- Taiwan in general is a bit tougher to navigate for non-Chinese speakers. You may be able to get by with just English in Taipei, but in the rural areas or in the central/southern urban centers, it'll be a bit tougher.