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poetrywhore posted:I love Pingdong. $4k/mo. Well...normal dong isn't so cheap, but flat dong is. Not unexpected.
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Nov 20, 2014 20:31
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If you are new to Taipei, you owe it to yourself to live in the middle of the city at least at first, especially if you can easily afford 20k a month. A bunch of new lines make living in Guting pretty convenient. Once you are used to Taipei you can move to the depressing suburbs.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:38
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on the left posted:If you are new to Taipei, you owe it to yourself to live in the middle of the city at least at first, especially if you can easily afford 20k a month. A bunch of new lines make living in Guting pretty convenient. I live in Banqiao district and am only paying 12k a month. Madness.
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Nov 23, 2014 21:09
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rolecks posted:Well we made it in. At immi the guy didn't even ask or look for the outward bound ticket confirmation. I had checked 'visa-exempt' on the form and he looked at it for less than 5 seconds, stamped it for 3-months and I was on my way. Living around Guting MRT/Shida, or further down towards Gongguan will be at least 20,000/mo for a nice place. If you're sharing with more people you can find bigger places for less per month, but 1 bedroom apartments are expensive in the city. We did find some for cheaper than 20,000, but they were smaller than what we would have accepted. My first year I lived at Guting, and I was looking all along that area somewhat recently as well both for myself and a friend later. You might be able to knock the price down if a Taiwanese person negotiates with you, but the area you want is pricey because it's a good location and near the universities. You could also look West of Da'an Park if you're willing to pay 20-23,000/mo. NW of the park is Dongmen MRT, which would put her at a maybe 10 minute commute to Guting MRT. SW of the park would put her on Heping Road, which is a 6-7 minute bus ride to Guting MRT. West of Guting is all furniture stores and used appliances. Regardless of what you pick, I wouldn't live that way.
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Nov 24, 2014 12:26
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Slowpoke! posted:West of Guting is all furniture stores and used appliances. Regardless of what you pick, I wouldn't live that way. That was where I lived when I first got here. Had a 1 bathroom studio for 9000nt, it was ok. Living on the same street as all those furinture stores made hauling my giant leather chair back to my place a lot easier. It's not bad though, you're about 15 minutes from the ShiDa night market which still has a lot of places to eat and is a convenient detour on the way home.
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West of Da'an Park (East of Guting) is where it's at. You got Yongkong Street, you got Shida Night Market (plus, well, Shida), you're near a million MRT/Ubike stops and of course Da'an Park itself is right there. NTU/Gongguan, Tonghua Night Market, CKS Memorial Hall and the rest are not very far away either. I rented a studio that way for 10,000, I feel like you could find a 1BR for 20,000.
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Nov 24, 2014 16:25
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I've lived right by Da'an Park (pre-MRT, obviously), right by Guting, down in Jingmei, and up by Shuanglian and not once have I paid more than NT$12,000 a month (and that's including cable, management fee, and furnishings). Granted, it's always been shared, but my own personal rent has never gone over that and honestly I feel like if you can't get a room for sub $15,000 you're just not trying. Meanwhile, everywhere else on the island, raucous laughter echoes.
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Nov 24, 2014 17:43
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TetsuoTW posted:Meanwhile, everywhere else on the island, raucous laughter echoes. I miss my NT$7,000/month 1 bedroom apartment with full kitchen and reserved parking space in the underground garage back in rural Taichung 
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Nov 24, 2014 17:49
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Downtown HK rent is 140000 NTD a month, suburbs with metro line is 48000 if you are lucky! Maybe I should buy some apartments in taipei
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Nov 24, 2014 18:00
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Good luck with that. Pretty sure the disparity between buying and renting property in Taipei is astronomical, like up there with the big boys on the international scene like Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York.
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Nov 25, 2014 17:52
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Pandemonium posted:Good luck with that. Pretty sure the disparity between buying and renting property in Taipei is astronomical, like up there with the big boys on the international scene like Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York. Yeah, someone mentioned to me that it would take the average family 70-something years of rent to be able to afford what it would cost to buy a place.
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Nov 25, 2014 18:05
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Hey it's election time? So what's the difference between the 2 candidates besides political party affiliation?
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Nov 26, 2014 03:30
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It's all local stuff this year; city mayors and whatnot. Next presidential election is in 2016. Last I checked though it looks like the KMT is going to lose a few of the major city halls, including Taipei and Taichung.
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Nov 26, 2014 03:39
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caberham posted:Hey it's election time? So what's the difference between the 2 candidates besides political party affiliation? e: Moon Slayer posted:Last I checked though it looks like the KMT is going to lose a few of the major city halls, including Taipei and Taichung. Also while we're on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgDPOicjnD0 sub supau fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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Nov 26, 2014 03:39
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Well keep me updated! I just wonder if there are any differences in policies between the two. Least you guys can vote. I just got pepper sprayed and my glasses got smashed
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Nov 26, 2014 03:51
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What's a "policies"?
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TetsuoTW posted:What's a "policies"? Arguing about who gets the latest giant animal statue.
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caberham posted:Well keep me updated! I just wonder if there are any differences in policies between the two. Least you guys can vote. I just got pepper sprayed and my glasses got smashed You live in communist China, you should expect that.
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Nov 26, 2014 04:07
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抗命不認命啊大佬
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Nov 26, 2014 04:33
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caberham posted:抗命不認命啊大佬 喜怒哀樂，慮嘆變慹，姚佚啟態；樂出虛，蒸成菌。日夜相代乎前，而莫知其所萌。已乎已乎！
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TetsuoTW posted:Also while we're on the subject: I'm disappointed there aren't more Chinese Epic Rap Battles of History.
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Bloodnose posted:I'm disappointed there aren't more Chinese Epic Rap Battles of History.
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Is there an English guide to signing up on tw.taobao.com? My laptop desperately needs it's RAM upgraded, but it's a 5 year old Compaq that's a special snowflake. The shops here that I know about don't carry what I need (DDR3 1333 PC10600), but I see that taobao carries some for relatively cheap. I've been told that PC10666 is backwards compatible with PC10600, but I tried that and it didn't work. All the places here carry PC10666, but not 10600.
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Nov 28, 2014 04:28
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If it's 5 years old you are better off buying a new computer
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Nov 28, 2014 04:35
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caberham posted:If it's 5 years old you are better off buying a new computer Yeah, I know. If I could get one right now, I would. For now, I want to keep this thing on life support until I can afford a new computer. e: Also need to stop using IE and start using Chrome more. IE just leaks memory. CovfefeCatCafe fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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Nov 28, 2014 04:54
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I'm still in touch with a bunch of people from The China Post, so if anybody's interested I can keep the thread updated with election results for those of us who can't understand the news coverage. Exit polls for Taipei mayor show Ko with a pretty significant lead.
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Nov 29, 2014 10:38
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Double posting because Lien has already conceded and so did the mayor of Taichung so that's two major losses for the KMT.
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Nov 29, 2014 12:11
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I guess someone's going to feel a little blue tonight.
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How about that DPP.  They beasted through pretty much every part of Taiwan except Taitung and nobody cares about Taitung.hitension fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Nov 29, 2014 12:34
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YF19pilot posted:Is there an English guide to signing up on tw.taobao.com? My laptop desperately needs it's RAM upgraded, but it's a 5 year old Compaq that's a special snowflake. The shops here that I know about don't carry what I need (DDR3 1333 PC10600), but I see that taobao carries some for relatively cheap. http://search.ruten.com.tw/search/s000.php?searchfrom=indexbar&k=DDR3+1333+PC10600&t=0 If that's not exactly what you're looking for, search the site. I'm sure you'll find it there.
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Nov 29, 2014 13:09
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Choooo chooooooooo KMT getting owned
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Green train can't stop won't stop Maybe Taichung's MRT will get finished before I die of pollution now
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So what kind of policies will happen?
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caberham posted:So what kind of policies will happen? banning umbrellas and Hong Kong tourists.
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I, for one, am looking forward to the excitement of the 2017 Chinese invasion.
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Did you guys watch Lucy? Are the hospital scenes accurate of a Taiwanese hospital? When I heard the line "I GOT TO TO BACK AND STUDY" I immediately thought about you guys
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caberham posted:Did you guys watch Lucy? Not really, you can't just walk into the operating theater like that from the lobby. There's 3 layers of security/barriers before you get there. The operating theater felt a bit odd too, not like the ones I've seen. As for the lobby, I've been to that one and that's just how it looks, but how the people act/react is just pure fantasy. For instance, there's no way that doctor would have spoken English that well (誤 Lucy kinda felt really ridiculous, because, as an American, I could imagine that stuff happening in American cities I've lived in, but not Taipei. There's no way someone is getting shot in broad daylight mere meters from the 101 building, at ~that~ fancy hotel without attracting at least 100 cops. Much less by a Korean. Ha! ...that poo poo only happens in Taichung. Barto fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Ah I see, so it was really shot in a Taiwan hospital huh
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Taiwan health care rules. Went in with a sore throat, in less than an hour and never leaving the exam room a tumor had been diagnosed and removed. Plus medicine for NT$340. Finding out next week if it was benign (probably, doc says).
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