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[ZPlatypus]

I would think the opportunity for learning Chinese (as opposed to Koren or Thai, for example) would be amajor plus for Taiwan.

[razorhideki]

To Rooster: Yeesh...Y180K/mo. is a great salary in Japan?! Wow!

Not to get too off topic...and I don't think we are, since we're comparing Taiwan/Japan contract terms(and I might add that some Taiwan PS contracts offer airfare, housing, competitive salaries, etc.), I have to state yet again: there is no Japan state-mandated "guaranteed monthly income"! Just because you say it's so it "don't make it so". If you insist otherwise, I simply ask you: source?

So, nonetheless, let's say you get that wonderful $2K/mo. Yowzells! You're going to save dough on that!? What a lifestyle! But, OK, eat that natto & rice! Ride that bicycle!

Look, mate, I'm trying to be on YOUR side. If you don't believe me, go to the Japan Forum and tell your theory to the Japan vets...see what they'll say.
By your own admission, you've never lived/worked in Japan. I have(5 yrs.) and have lived in Korea for three(and contracts in SK are no screaming hell these days). So let me throw down this gauntlet: take a contract in Japan for 250K/mo., or less, and then AFTER 6 mos., come back here and tell us all how great things are. Sound fair? I think so....

[Rooster_2006]

[creztor]

Seriously, I don't know what it is with forums. We are all living away from our respective countries but for some reason we seem to manage to get into a "whose schlong" is bigger competition. There is another famous TW forum which is full of nothing but hate. I am sure this post will get deleted but this is why I post very rarely and don't post comments as often as I should. I am constantly amazed at just how hostile and angry we can be towards each other when in fact we should be doing the complete opposite. Delete away/flame me away.

[razorhideki]

creztor: It's been noted for many years how these forums turn into ''p***ing contests" and it's indeed unfortunate that it happens(have you ever been at the Korea Forums? Yeeeesh!). For my part, though, I'm just sick & tired of BS circulating from those WITHOUT direct experience telling all & sundry "how it is". Case in point: a poster who's never lived/worked in Japan asserting how saving money there, on Y180K/mo., is no problem as long as you live "frugally." Frugally indeed!

Rooster: this is for you

http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=839191&highlight=#839191

Maybe you can hook up with shiggy after you've both been there for 6 mos. And , YES, it's about *beep* time that posters like you do your thing in Japan, for 180K/mo., and then come back to Dave's to tell the naysayers how "wrong" we were. That gaunlet has been thrown on the ground many times over the years(perhaps most notably by Glenski, who posts mostly on the Japan Forum)and yet NOT ONE poster has ever picked up that glove. Funny, huh?

So do your thing, spend your year in Japan watching Japanese "variety" shows(assuming you even have a TV)while munching that natto & rice. Fill your boots....

And thanks for your tip about Taiwan PS job qualifications .I said Taiwan jobs with better benefits & pay are out there(true)...didn't say every Tom, Dick & Harry EFLer was eligible to apply. Not only Taiwan, but in several E. Asian locales(e.g. HK) you must have a teaching cert. from your home country in order to teach in the public system. Not that it's germane to the discussion, but since you asked-yes, I have a home country teaching cert.

And can you clarify: Is 180K enough to live on & save money or...is it for "chumps on working holiday visas"?

[Shimokitazawa]