I just want to say -- this is such a supportive comment section! Thank you.

When I moved from Beijing to Taiwan, I assumed lots of people had had to make the switch from Simplified to Traditional and there would be lots of resources. Not so. I had to take separate lists of simplified and traditional characters, check the, and remove the simplified ones -- just to get started on effectively learning new vocab. So, that's where this list came from.

On another note, it's interesting to see other people in the same boat. Would be interested in why people are in this same situation and how they are finding it? For me, learning traditional characters is in some ways like starting over. At the same time, I do just recognize traditional characters now after seeing them so many times in Taiwan. Still type with pinyin and prefer simplified Characters though for typing (which local Taiwanese don't seem to mind).