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LimburgLimbo posted:So is it that it used to be 打狗 then the Japanese changed it to Takao written as 高雄 which sounds similar, and it stuck? Yeah. The Japanese thought 打狗 was an undignified name for a city. The name originally meant something like “bamboo forest” in the local aboriginal language and the Chinese settlers thought it sounded like 打狗.
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Purple Prince posted:Signed up for HESS. I will likely be in Taichung area FYI. Trying not to spend too much time hanging with foreigners as I want to learn Mandarin as quickly as possible, but up for goonmeets in the area. Sure, have fun! I hear Taichung’s nice enough. Don’t know if any of the rest of us are there right now but let us know if you pass through Taipei or want to come up and hang out.
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Rockopolis posted:So far, I'm lining up hiking, hot springs, I've had the National Palace museum, the aboriginal museum, and Anping Old Fort recommended. Are you staying in Taipei or going all over? The first things you list here are or can be in the capital but Anping is in Tainan.
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Jan 6, 2020 03:47
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I think he’s reacting to it being the “only” beer you like—it’s not bad but it’s not hugely different from other beers.
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Jan 8, 2020 03:38
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Should be a thing. You’re looking in pharmacies that sell medicine, right, not the ones that sell shampoo and makeup?
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Jan 10, 2020 04:17
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Rockopolis posted:No Costco membership. You’re looking in the wrong pharmacies. Look for a store with the Taiwan NHS logo on it:  That will sell medicine and medical stuff like braces.
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Jan 10, 2020 04:23
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Rockopolis posted:Got one. Thank you for the help. No worries. It’s confusing for visitors.
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Jan 10, 2020 06:07
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Sure, do you have one of us on Line?
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Jun 25, 2020 13:10
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Most of us are in Taipei, which has a climate similar to Miami’s but with more rain. It’s hotter in the other cities. The central mountains might be different, but I don’t know how many English teaching jobs there are in Nantou.
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Apr 7, 2021 02:14
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It’s possible that things will improve to that level, but not a sure thing. I think what they’ve said they’d be looking for before changing things that much is 28 days with no new domestic cases (i.e. enough time for two 14-day incubation periods to have elapsed so nothing is sneaking by them) and even then you’d still need to do your 14-day quarantine upon entering the country.
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Aug 30, 2021 05:16
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BabyFur Denny posted:I'll be one of them in April/May. Just to be sure, maybe check and see if the road through Taroko up to Hehuanshan is open again—it goes in and out because of rockslides and such. If you’re ethnically Chinese and speak like a mainlander people might think you are one, yeah, though they might also sniff out if you’re an ABC or similar based on how you dress and act.
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The election recently wasn’t explicitly pro-independence, but the winning party, the DPP, is generally more anti-China than the others. Maybe more significantly this is a third term in the presidency for them, the first time that’s happened in the pretty short history of Taiwanese elections. It remains to be seen what the result will mean in terms of cross-strait relations.
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