Good points and to a degree understandable, sometimes there's no place like home. However, I'm from Vancouver and I feel Vancouver is much nicer than Taipei and certainly nicer than Taoyuan county. But, I certainly don't tell this to every Taiwanese aquaintence I make here and if I did state that view, it would be a single statement made one time instead of a multi hour rant (after all that's what Forumosa is for)