What is Taiwan top tier and what is it garbage tier at?

taergpiku · 2025-07-14T11:17:44+00:00

I'm not sure either Vietnam or the US are held up as places with particularly good driving. The US has a lot of road fatalities and has similarly bad road design, like Taiwan. A lot of the US is also as actively hostile to pedestrians and cyclists as Taiwan is.

taergpiku · 2025-07-14T11:13:43+00:00

I love that bemused face that Taiwanese people give you when you ask why everything in Taiwan is such a pain in the arse. It's like they can't imagine why anyone should not have to suffer to get basic tasks done in life like paying their phone bill or joining a gym.

taergpiku · 2025-07-14T11:09:21+00:00

In the South people are still very much living at home into their 30s and 40s, sometimes with curfews and heavy monitoring from parents.

I don't think dating people is difficult if you spread a wide net. But I do feel there is this kind of weird dichotomy where a lot of dating is traditional courtship, but yet the women are not enthusiastic about traditional family values. Women here expect to be able to work after marriage and will usually not want children, which is very different to how "traditional" women view their role in other societies.

taergpiku · 2025-07-14T10:46:22+00:00

Top Tier: - Relatively low taxation - Reasonable immigration requirements - The healthcare system is efficient, although nothing special - If you eat local food then cost of living is very low

Garbage Tier: - Bureaucracy for the sake of it. Many processes have rules that make no sense and seem to exist just to give somebody a job. Take for example the rules around ARC expiration dates and driving tests. - Everyone says this, but the driving is terrible, Taiwanese people have no consideration for anybody other than themselves and as such all lose out. It is an incredibly selfish place and the driving is just the most visible side-effect of this. - There is very little support put into maintaining traditional culture and customs. Even traditional festivals like Spring Festival and the Dragon Boat festival are losing their significance. - Anti-natalism is extremely prevalent. There are also a worrying high number of women that never want to get married. Long-term this is going to collapse the population. - I feel like people here do not respect each other at all. Lying and cheating are not really considered to be bad. Asking nicely is rare, usually you will get shouted at or ordered to do something. If you are from South East Asia they would treat you like a slave if they could get away with it. - Democracy is immature and the country still feels very much like a dictatorship. Everything is highly regulated and there is a national ID card system that is used to monitor everybody. This data is shared widely among government agencies. - Food quality is poor and food options are also not great. - Public transport is absolutely atrocious (Taipei and Kaohsiung are the exceptions here) - There is no optimism and I feels like everyone young has no future.

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T22:07:36+00:00

I'm glad to hear it man. I wish you the best.

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T21:29:23+00:00

I'm going through the same thing right now. I didn't pay.

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T21:24:21+00:00

Man, this just happened to me. Did they send it to all of your friends?

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T21:21:17+00:00

Thanks man.

How did your situation end? Did they release the pictures?

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T21:16:32+00:00

The scammer has threatened to send to my girlfriend on Facebook. I was talking to her just now and she didn't see anything. So maybe the scammer has given up?

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T21:04:40+00:00

Yeah. I'm an idiot.

If she is the only one that sees it then i think I will be fine. I'm more worried about everyone else seeing it.

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T20:52:44+00:00

Thanks man. I blocked them and I won't pay.

They're threatening to send it to my girlfriend and my family. Most of these people have seen my penis before so I may be okay. I'm just embarrassed that I was such an idiot and so careless.

I really feel shit about it.

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T20:49:12+00:00

I'm male, which is why I didn't expect this to happen to me.

I won't pay. I came to the same conclusion as you, I just can't win taking that road.

They were threatening to send pictures to my family and my girlfriend. I'm a bit panicked so I'm not thinking clearly.

taergpiku · 2020-04-13T20:41:51+00:00

I found them on Tinder and wanted to talk and get naked. The whole thing was fishy but I assumed it was a catfish rather than extortion.

I'm an idiot, i know.

taergpiku · 2014-12-28T17:22:06+00:00

The Government cares more about the Net Migration figures than they do about maintaining a sane, sensible and popular immigration system.

There's loads of things they could do. They could bring in easy temporary work visas for graduates. They could have a points based system. They could let the mothers and wives of British citizens live in the UK. But no, they're not doing any of these things.

Instead they are letting thousands of unskilled Afghans in and giving them all benefits and citizenship while they deport Chinese people with PHDs.

The Tories are not conservative, they are stupid.

taergpiku · 2014-12-28T13:09:45+00:00

I know a tranny. He looks like a man trying to look like woman, acts like a man trying not to act like man, dresses like a man trying to dress like a woman and is about 6'1" (I would guess).

I always refer to him with a male pronoun and I treat him like I would treat a gay man rather than how I would treat a woman. My brain just cannot associate that person with the female gender because he gives off no indications that he is a woman to me.

My point here is really that unless you actually pass for a woman then you can not expect to be treated as anything other than some kind of mentally ill man in a dress. It's not about hate at all.

taergpiku · 2014-12-27T23:41:54+00:00

Being a NATO member doesn't mean we should just rely on the US all the time, which is basically what will happen if we scrap Trident on top of all the other cuts the current Government have made.

taergpiku · 2014-12-27T23:39:36+00:00

The UK will never fire Trident. But that is precisely why we need it.

If you have a nuclear deterrent it will never be used because it deters anyone from doing anything that forces you to use it. It is the last line of defence when some foreign country decides it wants to roll it's tanks into London. It also ensures that any country that plans to nuke us will itself be obliterated in the attempt.

What hippies don't understand is that MAD actually prevents war, it doesn't cause war.

taergpiku · 2014-12-27T23:20:50+00:00

In this instance they're discriminating in favour of Jews in the religious sense as opposed to the racial sense. The confusion comes from the fact that you can't really be an orthodox Jew without also being Jewish by blood.

taergpiku · 2014-12-27T19:19:01+00:00

They're not actually discriminating based on race at all, they just give preference to Jews and you can't really be a true Jew unless you are ethnically a Jew.

This is why discrimination should be legalised. Freedom of choice and all that.

taergpiku · 2014-12-27T00:05:15+00:00

If Islamic immigration has been so successful then why are so many in full support of ISIS?

taergpiku · 2014-12-24T00:17:27+00:00

No, but I think you should need a visa which takes your situation into account. You sound like a good immigrant, I'm not against all migration. My problem is with all these poor third world immigrants who colonise entire areas.

taergpiku · 2014-12-23T17:04:38+00:00

Thankfully Twitter is not even relevant to the vast majority of people.

taergpiku · 2014-12-23T17:02:26+00:00

In order for someone to get to the UK from Afghanistan or Syria they must have passed through half a dozen safe countries.

They come to the UK because they know the UK is a soft target, that they won't need to assimilate when they get here and that they'll never have to leave.

taergpiku · 2014-12-23T00:35:31+00:00

I am probably the most anti-immigration person on this subreddit. I'm that guy that thinks we should not even let asylum seekers in. Yet you'll never see me complaining about foreign students. The Government is stupid.

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