My Taipei Living Guide

Living, Learning and Teaching in Taipei (or LLTT for short) was created to help:

• Anyone thinking of moving to Taipei for work, study or play. Young or old; experienced professional or green graduate, rich or poor; black, white or teal.

• Those who have lived here for a short time but are frustrated by too many unanswered questions and too little quality information about living, learning and teaching in Taipei.

• Experienced expats who have lived in Taipei for many years but are in search of ways to improve the quality of their life by improving their Mandarin skills, beginning or honing their martial arts training, or becoming a more capable, well-liked (and ideally, well-paid) teacher.

There are many wonderful travel guides for Taiwan as a whole (Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, National Geographic, Discovery, etc.) with heaps of useful information for those visiting the island for a short time.  However, those wishing to make Taipei, Taiwan home will be quickly frustrated by a lack of useful, detailed, and well-written information in English for long term residents.

The sole living guide available (Taipei Living) is written for families with the financial and logistical support of the breadwinner’s employer.  If you plan to bring children to Taiwan or work for a multi-national corporation that provides relocation services, Taipei Living is a useful tool.  But those coming to Taiwan to teach English, study Chinese, or train in a martial art have very different needs, most of which have been unmet until the creation of LLTT. And although countless books have been written on the individual topics of learning Mandarin, training in a martial art, or teaching English, none exist with detailed Taipei-specific information, and none bring them all under one roof.

The Living, Learning and Teaching in Taipei site and companion book aim to fill these gaps.

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