Taiwan

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Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Take Off via Eva Air BR 0857. Taipei – Hong Kong. August 18, 2009.

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A night market in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

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I will be transiting at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport from around 6pm to 12am. What can I do? Are there are any nearby cities or towns?

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Hello,

I’ve been seeing the same ad for quite some time now looking for a high school teacher in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
The job is offering a salary of 70 000 TWD per month for a 40 hour work week (20 contact hours) + 5000 TWD per month as a housing subsidy. I’m not sure about other benefits like paid vacation or health insurance, but they do offer a completion bonus of 70 000 TWD at the end of the contract. They will also be offering free lunch and dinner during the week at the school’s cafeteria. The only thing I’m not crazy about is having a co-teacher in the classroom and up to 50 students…(not sure how you’d go about teaching conversational English to a class of 50 high schoolers…sounds challenging to say the least!)
Anyway, here are my questions:
I’m really not familiar with life in Taiwan, so I was wondering if this is considered good pay for a certified teacher, And will the housing subsidy be enough?
Since I would be moving there with my girlfriend, who incedentally, will not be working, I can’t help but wonder if this will be enough money to support the two of us, and save enough money to chip away at a monstrous school debt. (I was hoping to pay off about 10-15 grand US per year).
Any insight would be very much appreciated! Thanks!

For a starting rate 70,000 is pretty good, taxes and your health insurance is paid you will have around 57-60K NT/mo left which is a decent amount here (about 18-1900 usd). I have been working here for 4 years and my pay is around 90K each month, but thats due to having excellent performance reviews renewed contracts, and a few other things. So I will tell you a little about my budget, currently I am living in a large house with 5 friends so our bills a little higher but I am moving into an apartment soon. So after my taxes my monthly pay is approx NT$73,300, from that I my budget usually looks like this (everything is in NT$ unless stated)

Suburbs Medium-cost apartment — $9,500 (my new apt is 30ping w/2bdrms 1bth 1kitchen and a terrace)
Electricity — $300 (this is my share of the electric bill)
Gas — this is about $300~400 depending on how much cooking at home we do and how much hot water we use. But recently we change the tankless water heaters from gas to electric so the cost has gone down some.
Water — around $250~300
Phone (landline) with ADSL internet $1000 Taiwan’s internet is pretty darn good.
Phone (mobile) – pay as you go ~ I am usually around $1500~2000/mo on this one because I call back home several times a month
Day-to-day home cooking — this depends on what I eat but I think I spend about $300US on cooking
Moderate restaurant (twice/month) — again this depends on the place but its about NT800~1500 (for 2)
Scooter/Motorcycle (monthly running costs) — for both bikes it is $2000 this is fuel and maintenance
Misc Shopping/Entertainment — I spend about $1000~3000 on random things, mostly my dog (food, meds, vet check ups, etc)
Day long trips (biking around) — $500 this is gas and food
Long weekend trip (not often but i do them) — $1100~2000 (depends on the hotel and how far I go)

So my average budget will range from $27650~$31900, and this is my rounding things out. *If someone has a better budget please give yours*

For the most part I think you will be able to have a decent life here, at first it will be tough (like first 3-6mo) because you have to find a place, furnish it, get use to the environment, get lost 1000 times, buy things that you later find you could have gotten cheaper at a night market or at a different place, adjust your budget monthly until you get use to conversion and things like that. Just don’t go over board on your spending and you will be fine, one of my coworkers after her first month wrote out a very tight budget plan for her & her boyfriend to follow for the first 6months so that they can save a lot to pay back their huge school debts. So far they are doing really well. So assuming that you have a budget close to mine and taking home $57000/mo you will have about $30400 to spare which is about 970usd a month. Barring that you get sick, your girlfriend is a shopaholic, you don’t like Chinese food, or that you have very expensive tastes for thing I think you will do fine to save about US$9-10K the first year. Once getting a proper budget, a proper apt., and everything else cemented out you could start saving more after your first year.

I work in a public Elementary school and while my class size is not nearly as big as yours will be (usually around 30~40)and having a co-teacher is extremely helpful. Because unless you speak fluent Chinese, you will run into moments where you need to explain something and will hit the language barrier between you and the students. Besides being your own walking teacher to student translator, a co-teacher helps to enforce the class/school rules and will save you in a pinch in case some incident occurs when you attempt to disciple a student.

I hope this helps you a little.

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100121 4Minute at Taiwan Taoyuan airport
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