Quote: (01-06-2013 10:50 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:
Quote: (12-23-2012 10:51 PM)DVY Wrote:
I miss taipei....
Comparison to Thailand?
Bangkok vs. Taipei
Weather: Bangkok is hot all year round. Taipei is hot in the summer, but comfortably chill in the winter (usually).
Food: Thai food is much more heralded, but the diversity and deliciousness of Taiwanese beef noodle alone can be enough to trump the cuisine of entire nations. Taiwanese cuisine is a broad sampling of Chinese, particularly southeast Chinese, cuisine, but with stronger seafood elements.
City per se: Taipei has much better infrastructure; cleaner; safer. Taipei is a first world city; Bangkok is not.
Nightlife: Taipei is much more straightforward. Everyone knows what the hotspots are for foreigners and locals alike. Room18, Spark, Luxy, Myst, Barcode, etc. are the perennial headliners. In Bangkok, however, one has to do their due diligence to figure out where the attractive, but open to foreigner, non-pro local girls are--if such an El Dorado exists.
Pipelining: I haven't attempted it on Thai girls, but they seem to be readily accessible from a litany of social networking sites. I haven't found anything that's good for Taipei specifically; I have tried OKC in the past for middling results.
Quality of Girls: I would give a slight edge to Taiwanese girls. Taipei girls are afflicted by a surprisingly high frequency of bad teeth, but are better otherwise. International school alumni (or even the students) in both Bangkok and Taipei can be pretty slamming (much better than the general population), but that requires social circle or luck just to bump into them, as their relative numbers are small. Easier to bump into international school alumni/students in Taipei, where the nightlife is more penetrable and discernible for a foreigner (as described above), and the international school girls do go to the same places as the commoners.
Ease of Girls: Taipei has a substantially larger population of normal (non-pro or non-semi-pro) girls than Bangkok. You won't be running into pros at all in Taipei. 6s are extremely receptive to night-game, but the 8+ carry around palpable bitch shields. The halcyon days of foreigner cache in Taipei has long passed, due to mass influxes of foreigners and American-born Taiwanese trying to swoop over the years. Perhaps the heyday for foreigner cache has also passed its peak in Bangkok, but it is still very strong--you still have a tremendous number of gringo-hunters and shorable pros (if one is into that).
Communicating with Girls: Higher variance in Bangkok than Taipei. You will have some girls that speak near-fluent conversational English with you in Bangkok (usually lower socioeconomic class and/or pro or semi-pro girls), and then some girls will be unable to converse with you at all during night-game. Almost all Taipei girls will know at least minimal English from school, but you rarely find one that is near-fluent (international school alumni/students being the exception).