If you are reading this, you are probably interested in going abroad for an extended amount of time. I really encourage you to do so, and open yourself to new experiences! Living abroad allows you to see and compare how different peoples live and interact with each other. It gives a lot of perspective on how things work in your home country.

I’ve been always been interested in Chinese. After graduating, I decided to go to Taiwan to improve my Chinese and met my wife then-girlfriend there. Since then, I have been living in Taiwan going through different visa types over the years:

• Student visa
• Working holiday visa
• Work visa
• Resident visa for foreign spouses

There are definitely some pros / cons to living here and I’d like to share with you a bit of that. Even with my advanced Chinese level, I still learn things about Taiwan all the time!