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週四(5/5)1.台灣女孩最不想住的縣市?2.有害的新聞
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台灣女孩最不想住的縣市?
Should You Move to Taipei? movetotaiwan.com
Benefits to living in Taipei
1. Excellent transportation system. Taipei’s MRT (subway) first opened in 1996 and now has 4 lines that run all over the city, with several new lines opening soon. The MRT is fast, clean, efficient, and really one of the best I’ve ever been on in the world. It’s very easy to navigate and get around to most places in the city quickly using the MRT. The MRT can be used to go to work (both Tim and I take it to work every day), or just go exploring around the city on the weekends.
2. Restaurants and nightlife. Taipei has no shortage of international restaurants and pretty much every kind of food can be found in Taipei, from Mexican to Ethiopian. If you aren’t thrilled with eating only Taiwanese food, then Taipei definitely has the culinary options to satisfy the vast majority of people. At the same time, Taipei has an active nightlife with a very good range of bars, clubs, music and other activities. If you like to go out and party, you won’t be disappointed with Taipei’s nightlife which can often end at 4 or 5 am.
Negatives of Living in Taipei
1. Jobs can sometimes be harder to find. Although there are definitely more jobs available in Taipei than other places, there are also a lot more foreigners trying to get those jobs. Since the majority of foreigners coming to Taiwan choose Taipei, it means that competition for available joybs can sometimes be difficult.
2. Large, densely populated city. While Taipei has a great MRT system, it needs to because it’s a huge city with millions of people. If you don’t like big, congested cities, then you probably want to think of checking out other places in Taiwan. When I lived in Tainan, I could get everywhere in the city in about 15 minutes, so getting around was a breeze. At the same time, it was also much easier to get outside the city and go exploring in the countryside on my scooter. If you are the kind of person that likes to quickly and easily get outside the city on your own transportation (i.e. scooter), then Taipei may not be the place for you.
3.Cost of living. The cost of living in Taipei, from rent to transportation, is higher than other places (sometimes considerably). My rent when I lived in Tainan was $9,000nt (approx $300 USD) for a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom place in a new complex, while my rent in Taipei for not as nice of a place is more than double that. This is just one example, but in general it seems like rent prices are about double the price in Taipei than elsewhere (of course it depends on where and what kind of place).
Taipei has so many good places to go (restaurants, bars, clubs, etc.) that it’s easy to burn through money, especially on the weekends. If your goal is to come to Taiwan and save a lot of money, then either you need to be disciplined while living in Taipei, or you may want to consider somewhere else where there are either less places to go or less expensive options.
Q:
Is Taipei a good place to live?
What are the benefits to living in Taipei?
What are the negatives to living in Taipei?
What do you think the restaurants and nightlife in Taipei?
Where are the good places to go in Taipei?
What do you think the transportation system and traffic conditions in Taipei?
Is air quality good in Taipei?
Do you like live in a big city or countryside? Why?
有害的新聞
News is toxic to your body
News is toxic to your body. It constantly triggers the limbic system. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid (cortisol). This deregulates your immune system and inhibits the release of growth hormones. In other words, your body finds itself in a state of chronic stress. High glucocorticoid levels cause impaired digestion, lack of growth (cell, hair, bone), nervousness and susceptibility to infections. The other potential side-effects include fear, aggression, tunnel-vision and desensitisation.
News works like a drug. As stories develop, we want to know how they continue. With hundreds of arbitrary storylines in our heads, this craving is increasingly compelling and hard to ignore. Scientists used to think that the dense connections formed among the 100 billion neurons inside our skulls were largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. Today we know that this is not the case. Nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones. The more news we consume, the more we exercise the neural circuits devoted to skimming and multitasking while ignoring
News wastes time. If you read the newspaper for 15 minutes each morning, then check the news for 15 minutes during lunch and 15 minutes before you go to bed, then add five minutes here and there when you're at work, then count distraction and refocusing time, you will lose at least half a day every week. Information is no longer a scarce commodity. But attention is. You are not that irresponsible with your money, reputation or health. Why give away your mind?
News makes us passive. News stories are overwhelmingly about things you cannot influence. The daily repetition of news about things we can't act upon makes us passive. It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic. The scientific term is "learned helplessness". It's a bit of a stretch, but I would not be surprised if news consumption, at least partially contributes to the widespread disease of depression.
Q:
Is news bad for our health? Discussing pros and cons of news media?
How to recognize bias in a newspaper article? How to detect bias in news media?
Do you think that reading the news wasting your life? Is news toxic to our mind?
What do you feel about news gossip? Do you enjoy reading tabloid gossip?
Why do people love celebrity tabloid gossip?
Is the news making us dumb? Why the news makes us dumb?
天龍國「歹霸」奪冠! 台灣女孩最不想住的縣市NO.1 ETtoday 新聞雲
▲大都市雖然生活機能方便,但不是每個人都喜歡。
有網友在PTT女板發起討論,詢問板上眾多水水們「心中最不想居住的縣市」為何,沒想到全台人口最多的「台北」竟然位居榜首。網友們不想住在「天龍國」的原因,幾乎都是人潮眾多、常下雨、潮濕、消費水準高。
不想住在台北的網友表示,「雖然生活比較方便,但常下雨」、「全台環境最差的地方」、「又擠又貴~要不是分發到台北工作,真的不會想來」、「人多到可怕,空氣又差」、「絕對是歹罷!」「台北,還好我搬走了」、「人多擁擠、東西難吃」;甚至也有台北人表示,「要不因為是我的家鄉,不然天氣真的讓人很受不了」。
不過,也有不少網友表示其他意見,「新北最差吧,租房子沒北市便宜到哪,倒是生活品質差很多」、「宜蘭基隆臺北,濕氣太重了、「扣掉就業跟念書,壓根兒不想去新竹」、「台南經常長期籠罩pm2.5應該也算地雷」、「桃園...發霉勝地」。
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