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Do I want to move to Taiwan to work for my American company's Taiwan office with admittedly cool people but I'm only good at English? For three years. I have been to China a few times and also Japan. I hear Taiwan is between Japan and China in terms of hustle and bustle and cleanliness so it sounds reasonable. Also I can't speak Mandarin save for some pleasantries and generic phrases. And my wife gets to come with me but she's also a generic whitey.
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simplefish posted:Will you still be getting an American salary? I assume they will make adjustments but try to enable the same standard of living because it's the same type of job. If I make $81k now, in the Midwest, what should I ask for there? The office is in "West District, Taichung City". I know zilch about Taiwan geography except "island with mountains".
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Mar 12, 2018 00:37
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Atlas Hugged posted:Taichung is the middle city on the island (chung is one of several romanizations for the Chinese word for "middle'; likewise "pei" in Taipei means "north" and so it's the northern main city). Thanks for this. I'm also reading the op which is super helpful. Not super worried about lack of non-bus transport within the city. My wife is a public transport master regardless of country so I just follow with my head down... She does seem very excited and we don't really have many connections in our current location. Myself and the people at my company have a specific shared interest so I'm not worried about finding people to hang with. But yes she would have to bank on finding at least a few expat friends or those who spoke good english. In Taichung this sounds more challenging so we'll have to discuss it. Teaching English is something she'd be up for. So yes point taken on having to help her become comfortable over there and find a place to exist. We'd mainly fly to LAX to see friends and family so that is not a big deal. More questions: flying to Japan and HK. I would go to Shenzhen pretty often for work. And Japan is one of our favorite vacation spots. Is the latter an expensive flight? And while 3 years is a long time...I dunno. Feels like there isn't too much to miss. We don't have big families and air travel is nbd to us. I'm not sure what we'd miss that we aren't already familiar with missing given that we picked up and left our prior home 2 years ago and it seems ok. No kids...though we are curious to adopt and wonder if adopting in Taiwan is even permitted to foreigners.
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Mar 12, 2018 04:30
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EVA premium economy was my favorite flight ever. From LA to Taiwan. I hear they do direct Chicago to Taiwan?
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Jul 16, 2018 18:21
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My wife and I are gonna have a week in Taiwan in mid October and I need some fun ideas. I'll be starting from Taichung. We were thinking touring the little beach towns up and down the coast. Reasonable? Doable by the slow train?
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Sep 8, 2018 19:33
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Someone told me the high speed rail is more of a medium speed rail in the grand scheme of rail. So should I not expect Shinkansen speeds?
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Oct 14, 2018 10:10
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Pirate Radar posted:It’s literally a license-built Shinkansen line I'll text him mid ride to tell him he's full of poo poo
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Oct 14, 2018 10:26
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I imagine this sort of place is all over, but I found a cool artist/hipster array of shops, beer, and cafes here... 暖星空 403, Taiwan, Taichung City, West District, 民生路368巷4弄4號 +886 972 186 677 https://maps.google.com/?cid=14107428786306703621
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Oct 16, 2018 11:52
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A train derailed and killed a bunch of people in Yilan county  https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3557499 My wife and I were planning to head down to Hualien on Tuesday morning via train.
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Oct 21, 2018 13:41
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sub supau posted:well i hope the two of you managed to make it down by bus or something, hualien is p nice They had the trains running by then, so the trip went accordingly. But we went past some of the remaining wreckage at maybe 15mph.
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Oct 27, 2018 23:31
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Did gay marriage get one step closer to being legal?
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Nov 24, 2018 15:40
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Holy gently caress lmao.
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Mar 26, 2019 12:18
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DoFun is in Taichung and makes weird sandwiches that I crave.
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Oct 16, 2019 22:28
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Sunmoon Lake is cool but I'd rather allocate an extra day or two at Taroko or somewhere near there along the coast.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:10
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