tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post9152733083286179676..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Ten Reasons Why Taichung is the Best CityMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-50044263833980347732014-01-30T19:56:00.898+08:002014-01-30T19:56:00.898+08:00I have lived in Taipei and Taichung and, in fact, ...I have lived in Taipei and Taichung and, in fact, Taiwan off-and-on since 2000, and both STINK!!!!<br /><br />This island is so freaking boring, people stab you in the back whenever they have a chance, walking the sidewalks in both is seeing you take your kife in their lousy driving hands, Taiwan women are phonier than a $30NT coin, and.....well, I can go on if you want, but I think you get the idea.<br /><br />Taiwan sucks, and the best thing for it is to back to China, thus ketting the USA only have to worry about South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and other SE Asia countries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-22384991146961233172014-01-28T20:30:53.511+08:002014-01-28T20:30:53.511+08:00Taipei, for all its flaws, is still a way more int...Taipei, for all its flaws, is still a way more interesting place than taichung. What exactly is there to do in Taichung? Hang out at the splendor? Attend a closed nightclub? Hang out with gangsters at massage parlor? Not much there. Good weather, yes. Besides that, not a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-8073758696986377092014-01-28T13:11:00.745+08:002014-01-28T13:11:00.745+08:00Secret: Tainan > Either of them anyday.Secret: Tainan > Either of them anyday.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-32621870998256157542014-01-22T12:51:49.236+08:002014-01-22T12:51:49.236+08:00Jeez some folks need to get a sense of humour, I h...Jeez some folks need to get a sense of humour, I had a good laugh at this.taipeirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-1153782666119275332014-01-21T08:28:16.485+08:002014-01-21T08:28:16.485+08:00One man's opinion and nothing more.One man's opinion and nothing more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-39697179015495507102014-01-20T18:43:58.509+08:002014-01-20T18:43:58.509+08:00天龍人:台北以南=一高二低=南部 =矮港
台中=非台北=準南部=準一高二低=準矮港天龍人:台北以南=一高二低=南部 =矮港 <br />台中=非台北=準南部=準一高二低=準矮港Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-52714659404130526112014-01-20T18:01:29.592+08:002014-01-20T18:01:29.592+08:00Shauming, i am waiting too...
Shauming, i am waiting too...<br />Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-56650031141952136672014-01-20T18:01:13.637+08:002014-01-20T18:01:13.637+08:00Hey Kinmen, I might be out there this summer for a...Hey Kinmen, I might be out there this summer for a short stay of a couple of weeks, let me know if you are there.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-22466245145609543862014-01-20T17:53:58.413+08:002014-01-20T17:53:58.413+08:00Yeah, Les, I agree. We've been saddled with a ...Yeah, Les, I agree. We've been saddled with a horrible government.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-32552989282062211582014-01-20T17:18:44.174+08:002014-01-20T17:18:44.174+08:00Funny article. By the way, the best place is alway...Funny article. By the way, the best place is always your home.<br />Imho, I vote for Kinmen / 金門, for 4 reasons: less traffic, less pollution, less humans, and especially less dogs!Kinmenhttp://kinmen.tknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-8624333215029120132014-01-20T16:17:29.742+08:002014-01-20T16:17:29.742+08:00I would have thought that, like Kaohsiung County, ...I would have thought that, like Kaohsiung County, the stretched out shape of Taichung County would mean that it has a marvellous compression of variegated landscapes all within the borders of a single county.<br /><br />However, the central cross-island highway is broken and the government is unwilling to repair it. So I guess in that respect at least, Kaohsiung is better than Taichung (although Kaohsiung's highway 21 is constantly under repair). <br /><br />That being said, it is a long, long drive from Kaohsiung city up into the further northern reaches of its' Taoyuan district. It is much quicker to get from Tainan city to say, Nanxi district using highway 3 and then up to Tseng-wen reservoir (and from there up into Alishan district).<br /><br />Tainan for me. Taipei has better night life but I don't care about that, and Tainan is served by seven reservoirs compared to Taipei's two. Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-87688529469762262282014-01-20T14:49:25.066+08:002014-01-20T14:49:25.066+08:00Still waiting for your post on the coming mayoral ...Still waiting for your post on the coming mayoral race of Taichung.Shauminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03402384559721776739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-74626702361055568132014-01-20T12:57:09.301+08:002014-01-20T12:57:09.301+08:00Looks like some people took this alittle too serio...Looks like some people took this alittle too seriously....Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-47165161294062713682014-01-20T12:43:37.728+08:002014-01-20T12:43:37.728+08:00Didn't the mayor close all the clubs and bars ...Didn't the mayor close all the clubs and bars there?Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-39040871262630906522014-01-20T11:47:31.698+08:002014-01-20T11:47:31.698+08:0011. Our crime is far more organized that Taipei...11. Our crime is far more organized that Taipei's. It is organized to the point of looking like legitimate schools, golf shops, restaurants, coffee houses, key makers, housing managers and service providers. <br /><br />12. We openly flaunt out sexist, chauvinist attitudes in the form of roadside betel nut girls, whereas Taipei disguises these attitudes under the label of "Expo Model". <br /><br />13. Taichung was the first modern city in Taiwan, with grid-style streets, mail service and infrastructure support services. Taipei was just a poseur. <br /><br />14. People from Taichung are heartier, and impervious to acid rain allowing Taichung people to walk between malls on open streets without the protection of covered walkways or subterranean markets of goods manufactured by Taichung factories. <br /><br />15. Taichung's mayor is a China-centered scion of the Mainlander elite with a diabolical mind for palace politics, black gold dealings, and dollar diplomacy. Taipei's mayor is a China-centered scion of the Mainlander elite with a diabolical mind for dunderheaded gaffes. <br /><br />16. Taichung doesn't need an MRT. People in Taichung have jetpack boots. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-20103011368215052912014-01-20T11:47:11.399+08:002014-01-20T11:47:11.399+08:001. The people. People in Taipei aren't friendl...1. The people. People in Taipei aren't friendly, people in Taipei are cold -- compared to people in the rest of Taiwan. <br /><i>Yes, I love total strangers yelling “Hellooo-oh!” at me from across the street like they do in the rest of Taiwan.</i><br /><br />2. The weather. Yeah, you'll like Taipei, if you like rain, gray skies, and life-sucking humidity that makes summers unbearable and winter an agony of bone-chilling cold. <br /><i>Agreed!</i><br /><br />3. The food. The food scene in Taichung is... is... well, let's move on to the next one, shall we?<br /><i>The Taipei food scene is very good.</i><br /><br />4. Taichung works, Taipei plunders. something like Taipei used to be before "modernization" created an expensive, overly regulated city full of branded stores selling a faux, imported lifestyle ordinary people can't afford.<br /><i>Taipei also houses the HQs of all big companies like Acer, HTC, Asus, TSMC etc which make the big deals overseas.</i><br /><br />5. The traffic and parking. while in Taichung, we don't even have traffic regulations<br /><i>That’s a good thing?</i><br /><br />6. The buildings. Sure, we don't have a hideous phallic symbol that looks like a stack of gigantic Chinese takeout boxes occupying expensive land in our swankiest district.<br /><i>There are many nice new and old buildings in Taipei. Taichung is architecturally quite dull besides the Luce chapel. </i><br /><br />7. Culture. <br /><i>How about the National Palace Museum?</i><br /><br />8. Getting away. Taipei is a little bubble of Not Taiwan completely different from everywhere else in Taiwan, a bubble whose walls often prove to be surprisingly strong. You work and work and work, and one day you wake up and realize it's been months since you've been out of the city, and Taiwan itself remains a land unknown to you. We don't have this problem in Taichung. It's really, really easy to leave Taichung.<br /><br /><i>Bullshit! Taipei has Yangmingshan, the North Coast, the NE Coast, Muzha, Pinglin and many other getaways that are easy to access and oft used. Farther afield, it is easy to travel around Taiwan and people do it all the time.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-18323784782118296542014-01-20T11:45:13.390+08:002014-01-20T11:45:13.390+08:0012. NT$160 pitchers of beer at the Taiwan Beer bar...12. NT$160 pitchers of beer at the Taiwan Beer bar<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-40354574188628792972014-01-20T11:42:13.699+08:002014-01-20T11:42:13.699+08:00The low rent, better weather, and less dense traff...The low rent, better weather, and less dense traffic alone make Taichung more attractive than 'Tien Long Guo'. Choose Life. Choose not live in the Truman Show.Ben Gorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07215358295386075741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-20565057077630044772014-01-20T11:24:49.362+08:002014-01-20T11:24:49.362+08:00Too bad the quality of life here has gone steadily...Too bad the quality of life here has gone steadily backwards for the last 25 years, in stark contrast to say Taipei or Kaohsiung.lesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-46247252051237685842014-01-20T10:48:31.545+08:002014-01-20T10:48:31.545+08:0011. Typhoon holidays without the typhoons!11. Typhoon holidays without the typhoons!Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16591152572015798886noreply@blogger.com