Why Taiwan SUCKS in all areas except food & safety

[Lucas88]

GJack. Or can Winston just give you my email address?

Okay, I'll send you a PM to your GJack account, but I can certainly ask Winston to send me your email address directly since he should be able to access it through the admin control panel.

[yick]

As for East Asian societies, I from my own experience think that they're massively overrated. We ourselves had very clean and well-organized societies — arguably the best in the world — here in Europe just a few decades ago before our continent was flooded with uncivilized third-world trash courtesy of our sellout crypto-Marxist politicians."

@Lucas88 needs to get out, he seems to be in a negative place mentally which is what happens in the UK if you delve to any degree into the media.

Lucas, if you're reading this, get out! You had a plan of Spain or Latin America, focus on that instead of who is ruiling you or who is coming over to live amongst you, you have no power to change any of it, just get out of there and pick something better for yourself.

Wow, for some reason I had an intuition to log into the forum today — something I rarely ever do anymore — and found this post addressed to me!

I don't think I'm in a particularly negative mental place lately — at least not anymore so than my habitual base state — and I've mostly cut out all media pertaining to the somber topics that characterize the current state of affairs. It's simply the case that the world is becoming an objectively worse place and people are noticing.

As for my own plans, I'm very much interested in Brazil right now and have even started to learn Portuguese as preparation (it's really easy after Spanish). In fact, last night I even proposed to @Winston that we spend a few months together in a Brazilian city of our choosing, enrol in Portuguese language classes, and scope out some big bunda ladies at night. I would see it as a kind of trial period and acclimatization for possible permanent relocation, but it could also serve to get the old teddy bear out of his neverending Taiwanese rut, should he agree to come with me, of course.

At the same time, I also have some more unusual plans, which might actually take me to Asia. In recent years, I've become increasingly interested in the esoteric cultivation path — meditation, energy work, Inner Alchemy, and the training of siddhis — and I'm seriously considering a protracted period of ascetic practice with an authentic master, either from the Daoist or Vajrayana tradition. I'm three years away from 40 and the mundane material world is starting to lose its appeal.

In fact, my current plans have given me a new lease on life and I'm actually in high spirits!

Glad to hear it! Brazil is a good idea and one I was thinking about but can't be bothered with Portuguese! there are loads of good cities that are safe and with all the amenities. I can move to Brazil because as a MERCOSUR associate citizen, I have freedom of movement and was looking at Jundiai in Sao Paulo state which has the highest concentration of Japanese-Brazilians in the whole of Brazil and one of Brazil's safest cities but there is a you tube channel called Vort-C Ambience that shows you all these cities in the south of Brazil and they're amazing, aren't they?