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YF19pilot posted:I'm a bit worried now. I don't think there's an actual course at the Chiayi DMV, unless it's off site. I know there's at least what looks like a driving school near where I live, but I don't know if the DMV would send me there to do the driving test, or if I'd have to take a trip to Taichung or Tainan. Anyway to look that up outside of "ask a Taiwanese friend"? Do you have a US license? If so, you can skip taking(and paying for) classes and just take the tests. Have a friend just call the DMV office for the testing information.
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duckfarts posted:Do you have a US license? If so, you can skip taking(and paying for) classes and just take the tests. Yes, I have an Ohio license. Kinda wish I had my Florida license as I could transfer it outright with no test taking, at least according to what I can dig up. I'll see if I can drag a friend along with me to the DMV. There's a nice old lady there who speaks excellent English. Maybe I'll bring her some chocolate and ask her for the details. Someone was telling me that any US license would transfer, but I'm not sure about that. I mean, "transfer, but have to take the written" is no issue, just curious about having to take the driving/practical exam.
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YF19pilot posted:Yes, I have an Ohio license. Kinda wish I had my Florida license as I could transfer it outright with no test taking, at least according to what I can dig up. The US federal government doesn't have any treaties in place with Taiwan for drivers licenses, but certain individual states do. A state must recognize Taiwanese licenses for Taiwan to do the same back to holders of that state's license. I think this is limited to all of two states, but I don't remember which ones they are. There should be a list on a Taiwanese government website somewhere. I think in the last couple of years Taiwan changed the international license rules so that any international license would be valid for the length of your visa. It used to be the case that your international license would automatically expire (in the eyes of Taiwan, the license itself might still have been valid) if you stayed in the country for a certain length of time (90 days?) requiring you to get a local license, but that might no longer be the case. So an international license might be another option to pursue, but that's much tougher when you're already in country. The schools do administer the exam in the same cars they train you in. Like I said, it's all part of a money making scheme. Courses cost about 9000nt when I did it.
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Atlas Hugged posted:The US federal government doesn't have any treaties in place with Taiwan for drivers licenses, but certain individual states do. A state must recognize Taiwanese licenses for Taiwan to do the same back to holders of that state's license. I think this is limited to all of two states, but I don't remember which ones they are. There should be a list on a Taiwanese government website somewhere. I think in the last couple of years Taiwan changed the international license rules so that any international license would be valid for the length of your visa. It used to be the case that your international license would automatically expire (in the eyes of Taiwan, the license itself might still have been valid) if you stayed in the country for a certain length of time (90 days?) requiring you to get a local license, but that might no longer be the case. So an international license might be another option to pursue, but that's much tougher when you're already in country. I had an international license/permit from AAA when I first got here, but those expire after one year, so the piece of paper I got from Taiwan only lasted as long as the international license. My other problem in pursuing that would be that my Ohio license expires in April 2016, so I don't even have a full year of validity left on it (and Ohio is stuck in the stone age and won't let me renew my license online at all, or by mail unless I'm deployed military).
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YF19pilot posted:I had an international license/permit from AAA when I first got here, but those expire after one year, so the piece of paper I got from Taiwan only lasted as long as the international license. My other problem in pursuing that would be that my Ohio license expires in April 2016, so I don't even have a full year of validity left on it (and Ohio is stuck in the stone age and won't let me renew my license online at all, or by mail unless I'm deployed military). And this is exactly why my license expired.
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yeah, if you're from Oregon, there is this: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201510010009.aspx
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Okay, I'll be going to the DMV on Wednesday to attempt to get a car driver's license. In other news, sugar ants are in season as I've found out this week. Now my apartment reeks of camphor oil in my attempt to destroy them.
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I lied. Went to the DMV today and got my car license.  Now I just have to wait a year to test for the big motorcycle license. Oh, and I guess having a scooter license already got me out of having to watch that two hour presentation again.
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YF19pilot posted:I lied. Went to the DMV today and got my car license. good job
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Apparently there are bars in Pingtung and they rule.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Apparently there are bars in Pingtung and they rule. I can confirm that there are bars in Kaohsiung and Pingtung and they are tight. Also, does anyone want to invite me to the Line group? Username is the same as SA name, no capitals, no spaces. This island is tight, I want to move here.
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Chantilly Say posted:This island is tight, I want to move here.
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Any HESS goons go to the ECC training? I didn't quite make it...
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So I'm arriving in Taipei next week to start HESS training. Got in just under the wire considering I had to make an emergency trip to DC to get a passport renewal processed before the deadline. Kinda pumped! Any advice for things to bring that are hard to find in Taiwan?
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The Letter A posted:Any advice for things to bring that are hard to find in Taiwan? Shoes that fit If you're a fatass or a giant, all other clothes that fit Basically unless you're like 5'2" and 120 lbs when wet, clothes in general.
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The Letter A posted:So I'm arriving in Taipei next week to start HESS training. Got in just under the wire considering I had to make an emergency trip to DC to get a passport renewal processed before the deadline. Kinda pumped! Do you know yet if you will be teaching in Taipei? That kind of changes the advice you will be given. I lived in Taipei and never had problems finding anything, aside from Tums and Sriracha, and I am 6'3. If you can live without Tums and Sriracha, I think you will be okay. Of course I think Hess doesn't tell you where you will be living until halfway through training so you could end up somewhere else.
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Slowpoke! posted:I am 6'3
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Uniqlo always had jeans that would fit me. I ended up buying several pairs of jeans there when I lived in Korea, so I knew they would have stuff in Taiwan and they did. NET also had decent-sized shirts. H&M just opened up in Taiwan too. I used to get a lot of stuff there in Korea, but I didn't get a chance to buy anything there in Taiwan because I was leaving in a few months and my luggage was already mostly full. For shoes, I stuck to ABC Mart. They carried my size (US 11) and maybe a size or two higher. Beyond that, you might be out of luck. I also found my sizes at a Converse store. The biggest problem I found with clothes was obviously the price, since I didn't have the same cheap options that everyone else had (although Uniqlo is quite cheap), and also the arms of dress shirts were usually too long. I took to rolling up the sleeves for the few dress shirts that I ended up buying because of that. Luckily Taiwan is hot, and no one expects you to wear a suit as a teacher.
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If I could amend my previous recommendation, I would definitely suggest bringing long-sleeved shirts, light sweaters and a fall jacket if you are tall and have long arms. It does get chilly in the winter, and it does rain a lot. Having a decent weather-proof jacket really helps. If you come from a cold climate you won't need anything resembling a winter jacket. I wore a leather jacket during the coldest months. Maybe don't bring a leather jacket though, because mine got moldy once I stopped wearing it because of the humidity.
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La New has p. solid shoes in my size, but i have kinda small feet for a 6'3'' dude As for clothes, I just get by on looking like a dork most of the time. I wear mostly clothes I brought from the US, and I always wear dress shirts with the sleeves rolled/scrunched because I buy them off the rack and yeah gently caress finding fitting shirts There are a few tailors that I could recommend, but I haven't actually used them because i'm lazy/cheap and i haven't gotten fired for rolling up my sleeves yet
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Nov 5, 2015 19:58
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Slowpoke! posted:
For someone who is 6'3 you got small feet. I'm 5'9 1/2 and wear size 12. Most places don't carry 12, or they only have 3-4 pairs total in the store. If you have bigger feet than me its really hard to get shoes just walking into a store.
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TetsuoTW posted:Underwear that fit Taiwan really doesn't have Uniqlo/Muji/H&M/various other multinational clothing brands? Also random question- what are Taiwanese winters like weather wise? I might pop over for a trip in December
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Magna Kaser posted:Also random question- what are Taiwanese winters like weather wise? I might pop over for a trip in December It is a cold that will seep into your bones and you will never escape. All the clothes you own will get wet, be wet, and stay wet. The sky, overcast, weeps incessantly, like an old man with a prostate infection. As for the sun? What sun? Unless you go to the south, then it's sunny and like 70F.
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TetsuoTW posted:Underwear that fit Slowpoke! posted:Do you know yet if you will be teaching in Taipei? That kind of changes the advice you will be given. I lived in Taipei and never had problems finding anything, aside from Tums and Sriracha, and I am 6'3. If you can live without Tums and Sriracha, I think you will be okay.
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Another random and much nerdier (but more important) question- Would Star Wars in Taiwan be dubbed into Chinese or would it have English/Chinese Sub versions in theaters? Disney movies here in China tend to have dubs day 1, though there are subtitled showings as well. I'm not sure what it's like in Taiwan. The PRC release got pushed back until late January so this ends up becoming something I should do while in the RoC....
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I found American stick deodorant to be universally hard to find in Asia. They prefer the body spray variety.Magna Kaser posted:Another random and much nerdier (but more important) question- English with Chinese subs usually.
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After moving to Taipei and becoming more familiar with buying things online I find there's very little that I need to ask relatives to send or bring when they come to visit. Deodorant is a great example. I used to have my mom send me shipments of Old Spice sticks (sweaty goon checkin' in), but there's a shop in Tianmu that caters to foreigners that usually has it, or I can just buy it online and have it delivered within 24 hours so... eh. Size 13 shoes remain the only pain in the rear end, even online not a lot of people carry sizes that big.
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Atlas Hugged posted:English with Chinese subs usually. Great! Also if you're used to bar, in most of Asia I've been (HK, China, and Japan at least) they sell those rolly-ball liquid deodorants from Nivea and other western brands which are pretty much the same as a stick. They're also small enough you can bring 'em through customs or on a plane without issue.
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All American movies are English with Chinese subs. Taiwan doesn't really dub things, though I never went to any animated movies while I was there. In fact, they even included English subs when the characters spoke foreign languages. Release dates were also mostly in synch with North America. Some exceptions of course, like Imitation Game and Wolf of Wall Street. I'm not sure if that was due to the content of the film, or the fact that it just wasn't translated in advance. There generally isn't any censorship like you see in the mainland.
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There is at least one example where Taiwan hosed around forever about getting a movie, which was District 9. That poo poo took like a full year to show up here. But for the most part, at least for big movies, yeah it's about the same time as the US. The only stuff that gets dubbed is cartoons and Hong Kong films, and in the latter case they'll often come out in both Mandarin and Cantonese versions.Magna Kaser posted:Taiwan really doesn't have Uniqlo/Muji/H&M/various other multinational clothing brands? sub supau fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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Cartoons are dubbed because they are for little kids. That's why I only know labi xiaoxin instead of that real shinchan bullshit.
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GoutPatrol posted:Cartoons are dubbed because they are for little kids. That's why I only know labi xiaoxin instead of that real shinchan bullshit.
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http://www.tuvaluembassyroc.org/job-opportunities/ There's a job opening at the Tuvalu embassy in the ROC, if you've got good Chinese and English and think it'd be interesting maybe apply for it.
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Finally, a cell phone MRT video that is not embarrassing for the foreigner: http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/life/20151111/730907/
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quadrophrenic posted:Finally, a cell phone MRT video that is not embarrassing for the foreigner: jfc that's aggravating to watch
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real content edit: Does that kind of stuff happen often in Taiwan? I hear about it happening a fair bit, and I've never come across it here in the mainland (though I've def heard it happens here too). It seems most people that aren't disgruntled single dudes think it's cool/neat to date a foreigner. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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Nah, I've never met an rear end in a top hat like that in Taiwan and I am the kind of foreigner that makes that guy angry.
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