How well will I do in Taiwan?

[steelersman]

CraigTPE, I appoligize, but I beg to differ. This might be true if you are dating women 30+. However I don't think that many 20-30 year olds these days are thinking about marriage or a long term partner. It may be a little sad, but I really can' see too many women between 20-30 getting too bent out of shape over their boyfriend leaving.

My shoulder is still wet from tears, consoling friends in this situation, both male and female, in their 20's and 30s. That being said, I am only speaking from my own personal experiences, certainly not any scientific survey.

Maybe in Taiwan. I can't see this happening in Europe or the US.

I remember many white guys in SF who had broken hearts over Asian guys who were there studying in Uni, then dumped them like hot potatoes (pardon the pun, for those familiar with rice/potato) when their studies were over and they went back to their home countries. I can also remember white girls I studied with in Japan who took local bf's, also in their late 20's, and then forgot all about them when they went back to the US. One of the Japanese guys even flew to the US to see his "girlfriend", only to be totally ignored by her.

I don't have any scientific evidence either. However these days I can't really see getting all worked up about some foreign romance.

[qiagen]

I'm curious about your plans/intentions.

In my own experience and observations, and not only in Taiwan but just about anywhere I've ever lived (including the US), the "foreigner" is thinking short-term companion/sex-partner/guide/assistant/FWB and the local is thinking forever/til-death-do-us-part. The local gets all twisted over the foreigner, who isn't thinking beyond the end of their stay in that country. Then when the foreigner leaves, or notices that the local is getting a little to serious, and wants to call it off, it gets ugly and complicated.

This gap in expectations and failure to be honest about it seems to break a lot of hearts.

EDIT: By the way, this seems to be true for gay as well as straight encounters......

CraigTPE, I appoligize, but I beg to differ. This might be true if you are dating women 30+. However I don't think that many 20-30 year olds these days are thinking about marriage or a long term partner. It may be a little sad, but I really can' see too many women between 20-30 getting too bent out of shape over their boyfriend leaving.

How very droll. Do read up on psycho xiaojies when you have the time.

[nonredneck]

One of my co-workers is a pickup artist. His belief is that around 1/4 of the girls in bars or clubs want to have sex with foreigners.

[蔣希山]

You should do fine.

[divea]

I'm strongly considering moving to Taiwan for at least a year to teach English and I've had pretty much all of my questions answered but now I'm curious about the girls in Taiwan. I've heard so many contradictory things that I don't know what to expect. I'm a white male, 6'2, with blue eyes, which I've heard is very attractive to tw girls but I've also heard that a lot of the girls aren't interested in foreigners. To be honest, I'd be more interested in finding a nice girl to date rather than hooking up with a bunch of random girls, will this be difficult at all for me? I also read some posts on this forum about people pointing and staring at some of the westerners, is this really that big of an issue?

OP, the whole thing about a foreign experience is to 'experience' it. And it will be foreign!! You really have to just worry about your livelihood, and place to stay, safety etc. And the rest is life.

No one can tell you whether or not you'll find a good girl. Or girls. In any part of the world. So what if a bunch of kids point at you? You'll live. Or you'll snap back at them and they'll live too.

[tommy525]

will you get laid? Mostly likely YES> DOnt know of anyone who did NOT get laid in Taiwan.

Will you get f*cked (as in f*cked up) ? Yes if you are not careful and aware, you may be.

[changhua]

Based on my experience there are many girls in Taiwan who look for foreign boyfriends. There are also many girls who don't care about foreigners. I guess it depends on the way you meet girls. If you look for female friends online or go clubbing you're likely to meet girls who want to have a foreign boyfriend.

The problem is that as a person who's just arrived in Taiwan you don't know anybody and the ways of making friends and meeting girls are quite limited. Most Taiwanese people met their best friends in school and at university. We do not have this small group of very good friends so that the way we socialize is naturally different. You have to find someone who is willing to spend time with you, and that will probably be a girl who's interested in foreigners, at least at the beginning. As far as my experience is concerned, some of them are pretty strange and you'd better be careful.

I think it's because we are both foreigners and newcomers that we end up finding this kind of girl. If you just want to have fun everything will be easy here. I didn't believe this myth before coming to Taiwan, but I myself have met a lot, really a lot of easy girls. On the contrary, finding a good and nice girl who will invest time to know me deeply has proven hard.

[bigblue]

One of my co-workers is a pickup artist. His belief is that around 1/4 of the girls in bars or clubs want to have sex with foreigners.

More like 1/4 of the girls in the clubs/bars want to have sex. With whoever she pleases.

[bumclouds]

Something to note: Girls who exclusively like foreigners are, 10 times of 10, completely messed up in the brain. In a serious way.

If you ever meet a Taiwanese girl who uses English all the time, despite having no apparent reason to, speaks fluent English without a touch of an accent without having lived overseas for an extended period of time, has a disproportionate amount of foreign friends on the rock (despite having no job or occupation that deals with foreigners), hangs out in expat bars all the time, and has never dated a Taiwanese guy because "i dunno, i just don't like Taiwanese guys"... then...

Run. Run for your dear life. And don't look back.

[KIKI79617]

first, I hope you understand my English because not very well . I'm a TW girl, but I really have to say some girls are good some girls not. I think foreigner in Taiwan is very fresh (to me), I mean if Taiwanese saw a foreigner they like to talk with their friend and say hey ~ there is a foreigner. but they never chat with them. because most of Taiwanese afraid to speak English. my English not very good but I like foreigner and also like to chat with them. so I think still have some girls like me and hope you can meet a nice girl.