The most disastrous thing about living in a foreign country is the fact that you rarely have a clue what’s going on. I am thirty years of age and have lived in three completely separate countries. Whilst the numbers fall less than ten years a piece I have had ample time to see the separate side of another country’s spectrum. Born in Australia, lived and worked in Scotland and survived (for lack of a better term) in Taiwan. Scotland was great. It was one of the few places where I got some of the best advice in my life - other than never discuss religion or politics in a Scottish pub. One of the barmen I worked with was a struggling Scottish actor, Johnny. Now Johnny never failed to lose his lust for life (especially when we working and the pints were free!) but on one solemn night he looked as though you could have set him a light and he would barely have noticed.     It was his 25th birthday. Of course upon finding this out (and bearing in mind I was a spry 24 years of age) I bought him a pint and asked what his problem was. “My life”, he answered, “I always thought by this stage in my life I would have been well on my way. But then I spoke to my mate. In his terms he reckons I have another five years to wait before I even get started.”.- Four Years of Living Dangerously In Taiwan A Report by Zac Harris

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Another Dream Job - Get Paid to Backpack around Taiwan - Fresh on the heels of one of the best publicity campaigns in recent years for Australia, Taiwan has launched its own version of the ‘best job in the world’ in a bid to promote the country to tourists… Do you remember the story about the Best Job in the World, offering applicants the opportunity to spend six months as caretaker of a tropical island in the heart of Australia’s stunning Whitsundays? Well, here’s an update. The job, which paid a salary of more than £68,000, unsurprisingly attracted more than 35,000 applications from people desperate to nab the chance of a lifetime..

Sex Sells and Here is the Proof from the Streets of Taiwan - Advertising agencies have long known that sex can sell pretty much anything – from soft drinks to chocolate bars, from cars to bedroom furniture. But proof if it were still needed is paraded everyday on the streets of Taiwan – where scantily clad girls bare as much flesh as they possibly can to win trade at their basic betel nut stalls! Betel nuts are as common on the streets of Taiwan as chewing gum is on the streets of the US or the UK. The nut itself is the seed from a palm that’s rolled up in leaves smothered in lime paste. You chew the nut, spit out the juice and the whole experience gives you a little stimulation along the lines of a strong caffeine kick – and can leave you with mouth cancer to boot! In many parts of Taiwan, and indeed across Southeast Asia, everyone seems to chew the betel nut – and selling this mild narcotic is blooming good business if you can attract enough customers. The girls in Taiwan can earn twice as much as their sisters who have graduated college, and all they have to do to win sales and influence people is flash flesh and titillate trade!

Buy Real Estate in China and get a Free Wife! - Just when I thought I'd heard every creative way of flogging off property when the chips are down - along comes a new one to prove me wrong - an entrepreneurial developer in Beijing, China, has decided to lure buyers to his luxury Ecological Bay project with the offer of a wedding to one of their sales ladies - and he's even throwing in a dowry to seal the deal... In an astounding display of what going beyond the call of duty for work means, the sales girls working in the Jin Tai Cheng sales office in Beijing have agreed to act as bait to tempt buyers. The Ecological Bay villa development is hoping to entice Chinese men who are finding it tough to nab a wife - thanks to the Government's ‘One Child' policy, there are around 120 men to every 100 women. The Chinese economy has slowed down dramatically over the past six months and demand for real estate in China's major cities declined sharply.

Retiring On $500 A Month - South East Asia - Some people regard Third World and Developing World countries with fear or even derision. Granted they don’t have the same lifestyle, things happen more slowly in some countries, often not at all. Problems that locals shrug off, like power outages, or water shortages could drive you nuts. Yet if you are prepared to adapt you’ll find there’s a uniqueness of culture, warm weather and warm people. Places where $500 a month can afford you a nice retirement are becoming harder to find. South East Asia allows you to tick the retirement-with-ease boxes. Granted it is an adventure and you’ll certainly never live like a king. But then, do you really live like one now!

Retiring on $500 a Month – Part 2 ~ Following on from last month, Ken Bayliss provides information and insight on how you can comfortably retire on an income of just $500 a month in Cambodia and the Philippines. Once, nearly a thousand years ago, it was the big player in South East Asia. Its empire became vast and influential but Cambodia now seems like any another Third World country.  Time has taken these glories and in the modern period, after a trying internal war, they are finally coming out of the nightmare. The 10 million Cambodians are a surprisingly happy lot, considering their recent difficult history.

Living in Taiwan - Working in Taiwan: An Expatriates Story - A patchwork of lights shimmered along the night sky's horizon. I looked out over the wing of the China Airlines 747 down at the Taiwan's approaching radiance. I was excited, and I tried to discern signs of what lay ahead of me.  I had twenty minutes left on my one-way ticket to Taiwan and $2000 dollars in my pocket. Surely the mystical East would deliver the excitement I felt lacking in my American life. With a couple of entry level jobs, a dozen or so short stories, one brief novel and a lot of food service experience behind me, I didn't feel like I was risking very much by launching this journey; but you couldn't tell the women in my family that. Somehow my mother, sister and aunt saw it as a foolish gamble, another in a series of dodges away from the inevitable: the normalcy of  responsibility and the consistency of a career.

Differences Between China And Taiwan ~ Living In Taiwan - One very noticeable difference between China and Taiwan is that Taiwanese women frequently have fuller bottoms. I’ve only been in the country a month, so my studies on the issue are hardly authoritative, yet the difference is pronounced. Fuller – not especially in the width and height dimensions; it’s in the depth department, in that mysterious and so hard to draw z axis. Is it a sign of more affluence in Taiwan, that greater comfort and security allows women’s bottoms to flesh out?  Perhaps, but I am increasingly of the opinion that many women here are flaunting their bottoms, sticking them out a fraction, even carrying them with a knowing swagger. It’s quite distracting. I barely remember being aware of bottoms in China. The aim, Chinese girls said, was to have a small bum and long hair – it was straightforward. A bottom verging on the medium size should be covered up with a loose skirt, or tightened in with unloose trousers. In Taiwan, the bottom and all its sensuality has been liberated; bottoms wink at me as their owners walk away. Taiwanese bottoms have mystery and double meanings; they are like a lot of things in Taiwan in that regard. In China, not that it wasn’t continually frustrating and complex, but it was generally somehow straightforward. Crazy, infuriating things would happen, but in predictable ways..

“The Native Speaking English Teacher ~ Teaching In Taiwan - Expatriate English teachers come to Taiwan to teach for a whole host of reasons and are of varying ages. There are many South Africans, Brits, Americans and Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians. Many South Africans currently view teaching in Taiwan as a means to making money as their position back home is not stable. Many Brits and others view Taiwan as a stop gap between university and starting a career back home. Of course there are exceptions to the rule amongst all nationalities; those who fall in love and want to settle in Taiwan see teaching as the means to do this, others just teach for the experience, the novelty or because they just happened to be passing through and well, just happened to stop. Whoever the teacher is and wherever he/she comes from is unimportant, most bring with them energy and interest, enthusiasm and an open mind. Many leave defeated and empty others stay on over their time until they are too old to leave. Many come with a Master Degrees in Education, years of practical experience in teaching positions back home and others come with a smile and a dodgy degree in some such subject as Humanities or Home Economics. What many expect when the first arrive might not be what they get. To get a position in “Taipei” is vastly different from one in the countryside where they might be the only white face around. Jobs differ the country over, depending on who the employer is and this will effect the enjoyment and the outcome of the next months and years.

Advice On Finding A Job In Taiwan ~ Six Months In Taiwan -  This is a guide to coming to Taiwan as an English teacher, but it is not a complete one. It is a list of things to do and try, rather than a list of things to avoid or be careful of. At the end of the piece I will give some links to other, more comprehensive information sources, if you are interested in doing further research. There is a huge amount of complaining about Taiwan on the Internet, and as I really like living here, I want to give my positive advice on how to come here and get a good life sorted out.Plus, I have only been here six months, so while I can say what's helped me, I feel less well equipped to tell you how to spot problems, renew a work permit etc. My List 1. Arrive with as much money as you can, and take your time looking for a job. Find out about different places, and maybe visit a few different places in the country to see what appeals to you. There are a lot of bad jobs in Taiwan, with bosses who will try and squeeze a lot of work and hassle out of you. It's important to take your time because the majority of teaching gigs require a one year contract. Contact people over the internet while you do your planning and ask if you can buy them a cup of coffee when you arrive, and get any advice they have. Many would-be teachers arrive with no money and no plans, just like I did six months ago. This is a fine idea in a cheap Asian country, because your money will last a long time while you figure things out, but Taiwan is expensive when you don't have a job. You might spend 400 NT a night for your bed in a Taipei hostel, and quickly you'll become desperate for a job and find it hard to say no.

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