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Justinelebonne
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 Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 3:43 pm Post subject: How much to come with |
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How much should someone bring when moving to Taiching and looking for a job?
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Dr_Zoidberg
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:35 am Post subject: |
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You should have an absolute minimum of 60 000 NT. With prudent fiscal planning that could last you up to 3 months.
I recommend that you have more just in case you land a job only to be kicked to the curb by your laoban, who found someone he / she likes better, and end up having to do a visa run. |
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GDT
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| I would second that and possibly even increase it by 500 USD. If you don't already know where you're going to stay then try and find a place for a month rather than camping out at a hotel. Paying 12,000 for a month might seem rough, but if you don't know anyone then it will make financial sense in the end. |
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beenthere96-2005
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Location: St Louis
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:36 pm Post subject: I only had a dime |
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| Dr_Zoidberg wrote: |
You should have an absolute minimum of 60 000 NT. With prudent fiscal planning that could last you up to 3 months.
I recommend that you have more just in case you land a job only to be kicked to the curb by your laoban, who found someone he / she likes better, and end up having to do a visa run. |
I came with a about a hundred dollars in 1996, and did get booted out of my job/apartment within a few days after lunch at her home. I foolishly assumed I had the job and talked too much at the "interview."
But I went to Taipei Hostel with another guy that she fired and ended up doing pretty well. I had a 60 day visa which gave me plenty of time to find work.
I do know a guy who only had enough change to make a call at the airport to the owner of a hostel who he then convinced to pick him up.
I just can't imagine being too motivated to work with a couple of grand in my pocket.
Seriously, it seems to me that if things are that dicey, it isn't even worth doing. |
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Dr_Zoidberg
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:20 am Post subject: Re: I only had a dime |
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| beenthere96-2005 wrote: |
I just can't imagine being too motivated to work with a couple of grand in my pocket.
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Anyone with that attitude should stay at home and collect welfare. |
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beenthere96-2005
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:55 am Post subject: Re: I only had a dime |
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| Dr_Zoidberg wrote: |
| beenthere96-2005 wrote: |
I just can't imagine being too motivated to work with a couple of grand in my pocket.
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Anyone with that attitude should stay at home and collect welfare. |
I should clarify by saying ...work ( in Taiwan ) with a .....
Why go through all the trouble to work there?
The point is, and I agree, you can't be down to your last buck and go to Taiwan.
The place sucks. There are far better alternatives. |
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Rooster_2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: I only had a dime |
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| beenthere96-2005 wrote: |
| Dr_Zoidberg wrote: |
| beenthere96-2005 wrote: |
I just can't imagine being too motivated to work with a couple of grand in my pocket.
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Anyone with that attitude should stay at home and collect welfare. |
I should clarify by saying ...work ( in Taiwan ) with a .....
Why go through all the trouble to work there?
The point is, and I agree, you can't be down to your last buck and go to Taiwan.
The place sucks. There are far better alternatives. |
Every place sucks, it's all relative.
I haven't lived in a country that didn't suck, yet. Let's see:
- America: ridiculously high rents of $900 a month just for a studio apartment, people I can't relate to, highest college tuition in the world, nearly 20% real unemployment and a depression that has stretched on for three or four years
- Korea: "nationalist" beatdowns on the street, bigoted/overly strict visa system, polluted, North Korea ready to open fire at any time
- Hong Kong: actually not such a bad place, except that it's part of China, which is a totalitarian juggernaut with horrible pollution, poor freedom, and surging militarism
- Netherlands: the radio was stolen from our car three times by drug addicts
So seriously, where doesn't it suck? Because if there's a place that doesn't suck, I want to move there!
On the whole, I'd say that Taiwan fits within normal suckiness parameters. It's a country with a medium level of suck. It is neither outstandingly high nor low in the suck department.
I could probably spend the rest of my life here and only be moderately pissed off. It isn't that unbearable, and certainly light years beyond Korea and Mainland China, at any rate.  |
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adogadie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: I only had a dime |
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| Rooster_2006 wrote: |
- Korea: "nationalist" beatdowns on the street, bigoted/overly strict visa system, polluted, North Korea ready to open fire at any time
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