A personal narrative of how one expat learned to love the sweet potato-shaped island.
The News Lens
Date: 2018/05/20
By: James Grant
Photo Credit: 臺北市政府觀光傳播局
On July 15, 2017, Taiwan raced past Canada, Australia and Singapore to become the place in the world I wanted to live the most.
I was on holiday in Seattle, talking to a traveler who had just that week returned from the island.
Having lived in the UK for the previous 26 years, any serious thought put towards moving abroad revolved around three main candidates — a quick switch to a banking job in Singapore, chancing it on the Canadian immigration lottery or treading the well-worked expat trail down Australia’s East Coast.
In the space of that conversation my understanding of Taiwan went from “some name printed on the boot of my childhood Darth Vader figurine” to a country “apparently quite good for food and cycling.” [FULL STORY]
