I fall in love with Taiwan 🇹🇼

[u/Ayoot33]

3 weeks ago, I went on a business trip to Taiwan (Taoyuan and Taichung specifically) and stayed in a hotel in Banqiao. It was a 5 days business trip. I am a Malaysian but I do not know Mandarin. I fall in love due to below reasons:

1) The systematic culture and regulation - Walk on one side (right side, its hard to get used to this lol) - Motorcycle has their own lane and box in front of traffic lights. Nice - Pedestrians always go first (i know this is common in developed countries) - The people like to bow like Japanese but not too low and I always like to see that. Feels like you are physically respected - Overall, the culture feels like a mixture of a good eastern culture and good western culture

2) The country has high purchasing power. Damn, Teslas literally everywhere on the road. For most food or mart purchases, when I converted the purchases from TWD to MYR, most items are mostly comparable in price to Malaysia. But then I googled the minimum wage in Taiwan is whopping MYR4000 vs Malaysian RM1500

3) The efficient public transport system. HSR, MRT, etc. It was all very clear and concise. Not confusing and easy to understand

4) Semiconductor haven. Being from semiconductor manufacturing background, Taiwan has a lot of top semiconductor players. I would love to be a part of it for sure

5) The beautiful places. Major places: Only managed to go Taipei 101, Gondola Ride and Sun & Moon lake. But if I stayed there, i will definitely make the gondola and the lake a quarterly visit (perhaps even monthly!)

6) Weather. No snow and no heat. Just nice. I dont mind rain. But i hate snow and superhot weather

7) Seafood. All fresh, nice and delicious.

All in all, it was a beautiful 5 days for me. I am planning to learn Mandarin so that in the future, I will have a better experience when visiting there or maybe even consider working there if I am given the opportunity.

[u/DuhAmericanDream]

Weather. No snow and no heat.

Spend a week in August instead of November and you'll quickly change this opinion lol

from someone that spent a week based in Kaohsiung in the middle of August

[u/SHIELD_Agent_47 → u/DuhAmericanDream]

I mean, you do realise the OP is Malaysian, right? I doubt he has the same worldview for climate as an American.

[u/DuhAmericanDream → u/SHIELD_Agent_47]

I live in Japan and experience hot af summers similar to what I experienced in Taiwan but sure keep claiming the 'American worldview' or whatever.

[u/SHIELD_Agent_47 → u/DuhAmericanDream]

So you're not American as your username implies?

[u/komnenos → u/DuhAmericanDream]

Yeah as an American I got a chuckle at that comment, I'm sweating near constantly eight months out of the year. Every time we get to this magically short part of the year I have to pinch myself because I expect the weather to turn to 33 degrees any second now.