Wealth Awakening
Living on NT$38,000 a Month in Taipei Is "Survival Mode": How That Classmate They Called Unambitious Quietly Bought a Home
A monthly salary of NT$38,000 in Taipei is a precisely engineered loop of tragedy—it keeps you from starving, and absolutely keeps you from saving. Ah-De, the 35-year-old office worker, was the office pushover everyone agreed on. After five years he got a raise of NT$3,000, while Taipei home prices climbed NT$200,000 per ping. It wasn't until a junior-high class reunion that he finally understood what that "unambitious" classmate had won at.
