Cost of Living in Taipei

President Tsai makes the life of Taiwanese worse during the last 6 years of her corruption reign comparing to her benevolent predessors.

Though Mainland China paid about 10 Taiwan dollar per kg of rice from India last year but the rice price in the PX Mart in Taiwan has been skyrocketed from 20 Taiwan dollar per kg of rice to at least 50 Taiwan dollar per kg of rice now, skyrocketing of 150% for rice during her 6 years of corruption reign

Vegetable price has been skyrocketed out of control due to the drought last year and there is no more drought now but the skyrocketed price of vegetables is still maintained unfairly until now such as cabbage which is currently sold for as much as gold price, etc.

Vegetables are essential for the healthy lifestyle of Taiwanese so should be affordable but the corruption of the current government for allowing the inhumanely greedy farmers to rip off and bully Taiwanese unfairly and consequently more and more Taiwanese consume less and less vegetables and getting less healthy, thanks to the most wicked president Tsai, enriching the few inhumanely greedy farmers at the expense of destroying the health of all Taiwanese.

Skyrocketing the electricity price by 27% starting from tomorrow is not acceptable because this is the mistake of the foolish president Tsai for phasing out the Nuclear power plant which cost almost nothing to  generate lot of electricity but the foolish Tsai stubbornly substituted the nuclear power plant with the expensive fuel powered plant which is unsustainable as the price of fuel has skyrocketed unacceptably since last year.
President Tsai shouldn't use her sense into implementation because she should know that her head is no different to a pig's head.
The consequence of using her pig's head shall skyrocket inflation out of control very soon as the 27% increase from the electricity price shall be passed to the consumers. This is absolutely unfair and unacceptable to all Taiwanese and in doing so, the pig head Tsai must be accountable very soon after leaving her post.

So the unreasonable 27% increase of the electricity price should be suspended immediately and the government should immediately invest in clean hydropower plan, nuclear power plant and clean fusion power plant immediately to generate electricity and with these solutions, the government no need to raise the electricity price at all.

The pork price has been dropped over 40% in Mainland China last year but there is no any price drop in Taiwan since last year under the corruption reign of president Tsai. So it seems Taiwanese has no value in president Tsai's eye comparing to her beloved few inhumanely greedy pig farmers. Unlike cattle, pig is very cheap to farm as it just takes merely 6 months (3 months is also enough for some pig fimers) for pig to grow up fully for slaughter so the pork price should not be higher than chicken.
So the price of pork should be dropped for at least 40% immediately to return justice to Taiwanese.

Is president Tsai still standing with the few inhumanely greedy rice/vegetable/pig farmers instead of Taiwanese?
If so, it's time for Taiwanese to take justice into their own hand until landing the corrupt president Pig Tsai into jail for colluding with farmers in order to punish Taiwanese with unacceptable, sky-high food price during her last 6 years of corruption reign.

It's nothing wrong with the government providing the affordable train service to Taiwanese but this god-damned wicked pig head Tsai don't want Taiwanese to receive any benefit from the government and consequently wants the train to be owned by a greedy private company. Taiwanese shall not forgive Tsai for transferring ownership of the train to a private company so it's best for Tsai to not touch the train which benefits Taiwanese. Nothing is worthy for Taiwanese but only rip-off according to the most cunning mind of the pig head Tsai but Taiwanese are not dumb neither so the pig head Tsai and her bloodlines would enjoy the forever maximum punishment of Taiwanese after retirement and the pig head Tsai would go to hell for her wicked mind of always colluding with inhumanely greedy farmers to rip off and bully Taiwanese.

Too late for the ccp trolls to hide anymore. The United States military will lite a fire under China that will incinerate everything in China.A rude awakening is coming to china's doorstep it's called death.

Lots of ridiculous posts from sad Chinese trolls here.

Taiwan's economy is doing amongst the best worldwide now.

Taiwan government is the most shameless scammer the world has ever seen as it's overcharging its returning citizen for a whopping 2000 NT dollar per night for staying in shabby or lowest-class, ultra small single room in the government quarantine centre where this kind of shabby single room is charged as merely as around 400 NT dollar in Osaka, Japan where it's called the economy Japanese style single room. This is the greatest corruption ever committed by any government overcharging against its citizen outrageously unlike never seen before in world history.

No one in Taiwan but only the working people automatically receive the payment of coronavirus stimulus unfairly unlike other countries and this is the most unfair scam ever committed by any government in history.
This the most unfair Taiwan government is wasting Taiwanese's tax money by automatically providing payment of up to 30000 NT dollar to all of the working people or all employees in Taiwan recently in the name of coronavirus stimulus wrongfully but there is no plan to automatically support for the unemployed people or other idle people in Taiwan unfairly unlike other countries.

The recent approved Coronavirus stimulus package of over 7 billions US dollar wasn't necessary if the Taiwan government were good enough to prevent the recent outbreak of coronavirus but this good for nothing Taiwan government delayed the purchase of coronavirus vaccines deliberately in order to wait endlessly until the local-made unreliable coronavirus vaccines is available which consequently results the terrible death of hundreds of Taiwanese now unnecessarily due to the recent worst coronavirus outbreak in Taiwan , all thanks to the foolish Tsai president who is the main culprit forcefully pushing for the local made coronavirus unnecessarily so this immoral culprit should step down immediately for indirectly killing of hundreds of innocent Taiwanese as well as for causing the loss of Taiwanese's tax money of over 7 billions US dollar in the name of coronavirus stimulus package for her world-record ignorance as well as for her world-record foolishness to insist with the local-made unreliable coronavirus vaccine which most Taiwanese have no trust upon, maybe the recent terrible death of hundreds of innocent Taiwan due to the outbreak might not be enough for her world-record foolishness.

Most people in Taiwan can't afford the very expensive taxi ride so for the sake of the benefit of most people in Taiwan, Taiwan government should immediately allow Grab, etc to operate in Taiwan so most people in Taiwan would be able to enjoy cheap rides in Taiwan again just like in Asean countries and consequently people would be grateful to the government for siding with the people instead of the rip-off Taiwan taxi mafia.

Birth rate in Taiwan is falling out of control now, thanks to the current sick government.

The rice price has been skyrocketed over 150% since 2016 from about 20 Taiwan dollar per kilogram to over 50 Taiwan dollar per kilogram now while India is selling rice for merely 10 Taiwan dollar per kilogram to Asia countries recently.
So the rice price in Taiwan is 400% more expensive than the current export price of India.

A chicken rice set meal at 7 Eleven convenient store in Thailand is just about 30 baht or 26.77 Taiwan dollar but the similar chicken rice set meat at 7 Eleven convenient store in Taiwan cost a whopping above 70 Taiwan dollar.
7 Eleven convenient store in Taiwan used to be cheaper where a chicken rice set could be purchase at 50 Taiwan dollar until 2016 but this offer is no longer available under the current sick government.

The city bus fare has been doubled under the current sick government as well and it's worst for location between Xindian, New Taipei City and Taipei where even if taken just for 3 bus stops, one shall be ripped off for 30 Taiwan dollar for bus fare under the current sick government unlike never seen before.

Throwing rubbish is the greatest pressure all Taiwanese have been suffering until now unlike Singapore , etc where Singaporean have no pressure throwing the rubbish as rubbish bin is available at every building in Singapore unlike in Taiwan where Taiwanese have to chase the rubbish car twice daily shamefully in order to eliminate rubbish.
The current sick government has done nothing to eliminate this pressure for Taiwanese until so far.

Restaurant food price has been skyrocketing rapidly under the current sick government for at least 30%.

Going to the supermarket to purchase meat and vegetable is no longer convenient for all nondrivers as plastic bag is banned from using in the supermarket under the direction of the current sick government unlike in Japan where plastic bag is offered for free at every supermarket.

So the current sick government is the root cause and the culprit of causing birth rate falling rapidly unlike never seen before because this sick government contributes more inflation and inconvenience to all Taiwanese comparing to all of the previous government before.

Are there any houses in Taiwan? I wanna live there when I grow up. I am actually from that place and is wanting to go back soon. I was wondering how much the houses cost in Taiwan like a house with 3-4 bedrooms in it. I know there are because my grandparents but I was just wondering. For those who want to go visit Taiwan, here are some heads up. You must change your money because their currency has a bigger number to it. Taiwan is pretty crowded but its really fun there. When visiting a beach, the water is warm during the summer. I don't know about the winter but I'm sure that if you go during the summer or with your family, Please wear some sunscreen or your body is going to be really red. Also, If you are moving there, If you're American and you are working somewhere in Taiwan, You will be able to take your child to a certain school for those American Children who are in Taiwan and are fluent in English (It doesn't matter if you aren't just as long as you have a American Citizenship), You're child will be able to get into the School. Alright that's all I got. A child ain't got a big brain. (and yes I am a child). Have a good day and Stay Safe during the Virus! God Bless ya'll!!

To anonymous comments on Jan.4 2021.

We lost our two sons one daughter and 5 close friends to covid19 so far.

There isn't any forgetting or forgiveness.

What the Chinese government and citizens of China did was just cold blooded heartless murders on a global scale as the comments on Jan.5 2021 stated.

China did well under Zhang Zemin but under Xi China has gone downhill and is going downhill fast. China peaked in reputation, growth, economy during 2008. With Xi in charge all the growth and progress has stopped and going backwards

Chinese troops caught a cold when trying to invade India territory due to weather plus China isn't any match for India military and Japan is quite capable of destroying China on its own and that's a fact because other countries stepped in to ask Japan not to kill everyone in China many years ago.Vietnam handed China their az when China tried to invade Vietnam.Then there's Russia finished with chinanese government bs.Its not U S governments decision to act on China aggression but it's the U S military that determines the outcome only.The world knows the U S military is the most deadly on the planet.All the U S military is waiting for is for China to make the grave mistake of firing the first shot towards the U S then there'll be nothing living in China.There are over 15 countries against China now and the list gets bigger everyday. Xi's father was run out of his office in government many years ago. Xi went into hiding working at a pig farm in a remote area area of China many years ago.The world is looking right down china's throat just waiting for China to do something really bad and then China will be hot ashes.

Humm so many ccp members trying to push their narratives upon Tsia through this site.

Though the traitor Tsai is the president of ROC government in Taiwan, this traitor has no whatsoever respect and loyalty to the ROC Constitution and the traitor's intention is clearly to destroy the ROC government sooner or later so as to announce Taiwan as an independent country.

Traitor Tsai is the main reason why Taiwan might be attacked very soon by China or else no war is expected for Taiwan for the next 100 years.

Trump is out at the end of this year and China is coming for revenge only upon the most hateful traitor Tsai and roast the traitor Tsai alive until her death to appease its anger.

Butchering of the Traitor Tsai by China is not important for all Taiwanese but people in Taiwan should not suffer for the sake of the wicked, moron traitor Tsai which is nothing more than a dog in Taiwanese's eye as the traitor Tsai is making the people's life harder by forcing to pay inhumane tax for each and individual chopstick, spoon, box of takeaway food unlike never seen in human history and the fare of city bus was also raised double under her administration, etc.
The traitor Tsai shall surely go to hell for causing suffering and unnecessary pressure and burden to all Taiwanese unlike never seen before during her administration after China roasts her alive to death.

Average monthly net salary over 47K NT (after tax)? Where did this figure came from?
Uni graduate barely making 30~40K NT/month (before tax).

I agree asw ell in Taipei the average for a semi decent meal is 150 NTD these days. Inflation.

The Taipei rent listed here is wildly inaccurate. Please show me where to find a 1 bedroom apartment for $16K that fits the conditions listed: central, modern, and good condition. Maybe people are interpreting the question to mean 1 bedroom rented in an apartment with roommates, because that’s the only way this makes sense.

Chinese lies exposed for all the world to see.

Is Taiwanese an ATM machine to be fined with whatever unreasonable amount by the Taipei government ?

According to a recent news, a Taiwanese left his quarantined hotel room in Taipei to travel to abroad but was fined with a whopping 1 million NT dollar unreasonably for leaving his quarantined hotel room.

Taipei hotel is well known to be expensive comparing other cities, such as Kuala Lumpur, Osaca, etc.
And the aforementioned person is a Taiwanese, not a tourist so he should have a house in Taiwan so should be quarantined in his home in Taiwan instead in order to save the burden of the expensive hotel room cost in Taipei for a whopping 2 weeks stay.

Taiwanese should be well treated with respect and fiarness according the way of democracy so Taiwanese should not be targeted for ripoff especially by their government or else where is law and justice for Taiwanese?

Government servents such as the culprit vice mayor should not abuse power given by Taiwanese people to add unreasonable burden to Taiwanese such as the aforementioned victim Taiwanese. If home quarantine were not allowed by the government for Taiwanese, government should bear the cost of all other types of quarantined methods.

The Taipei government is very inconsiderate of the burden of the returning Taiwanese by not arranging a home stay quarantine for the aforementioned Taiwanese so the seemingly lawless vice mayor of the Taipei government should take a responsibility by resigning immediately for her foolish action of badly harming the well-being and interest of the aforementioned Taiwanese.

Taiwan is a wonderful place with a great society and very competent government and health system.

Please everybody believe the spiteful virus infected Chinese 50 centers comments below , don't come here . :)

Taipei ranked top city for living worldwide by expats ...

Dude give up your crazy political stuff.

And the guy before you...lol

Yes they are allies according to the US Congress .

Taiwan is spending BILLIONS of USD purchasing US made weapons systems supporting thousands to tens of thousands of jobs in the US.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-taiwan-congress/u-s-house-passes-pro-taiwan-bills-amid-trade-tensions-with-china-idUSKCN1SE00T

Also the Taiwan relations act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act

Shaddap , Taiwan pays billions for the weapons and supports thousands of jobs in the US.

Taiwan and the US are allies .

Now stop talking politics here especially if you don't live in Taiwan . Bye.

The U S convinced Taipei it needed to buy some high-end military equipment.Now the U S can watch Taipei and China obliterate each other,a good thing.

After reading your article I found it very effective and informative.I really like your work. Keep it up

The "taiwan news" is spreading fake news which defames and harms the interest of all residents of the Greater Taipei as well as the reputation of the Greater Taipei.

However, sadly the inaction and irresponsible attitude of both mayors, Ko Wen-Je and Hou You-Yi of Taipei and New Taipei is regrettable.

If these both mayors were responsible a bit, they should secretly shut down the culprit "Taiwan news" immediately and detain all responsible people without bail indefinitely in prison with the hardest labor in return for defamation of the interest of the residents of the Greater Taipei.

Rubbish made up statements from mainland Chinese Wumao.

Ignore folks. They are bitter people wreck every internet forum!

Ignore the ignorant comment by dumb Chinese below.

The title is President Tsai.

Enjoy the pollution in Beijing.

Why is milk so expensive? $11+ for a gallon of milk?

@Anonymous: Either you are completely blind or completely moronic. I'm inclined to say both. In the document it CLEARLY states that the average household in Taipei has 1.29 working adults. 2.2 = the figure for the number of adults, period.

Anyway I'm done arguing here. Now the average salary in Taipei is 36k? Lmao. This site is laughable.

if you do a 591 search under 1 bedroom they show a lot of Studios which are not 1 bedroom, its a cheaper studio. There are 1 bedroom apartments in Taipei and they are usually newer buildings like the one I rent in Songshan. Ive lived in both most of my time in Studios now I have a 1 bedroom apartment. Almost every true 1 bedroom apartment I found in Taipei is above 22k some go as high as 40k but most of them are around 22k-29k. Studios can be found cheaply anywhere but then you don't have a seperate bedroom with a door.

I can rent a Studio for 14-18k but a single bedroom costs over 22k in center of Taipei I just checked rent 591.

MONTHLY income is not the same as Household Income. The statistic for Household income include 1-multiple family members. They are not averaged (Not divided by the number in household) That means when you have a Household income of 60-70k in some cases its 2 people's salaries combined to reach 70k.

This website is joke!
Average income in Taipei is around 55K - 60K
40K is probably Taichung.
Nobody is controlling the fake abroad contributions here?

@Administrator

So you are not going to look into the fact that the contribution has dramatically altered the figures within a few months? Comparing the mid-year statistics and the statistics NOW, the rent has sored by 50% and the salary dropped by 50%. Isn't there something fishy there? Have you not received waves of "contribution" that have manipulated the figures?

As for the sources I provided, if the household income is 1.6 million in a city, how on earth can the average salary be only 40k? Even if you take the percentage of female workforce and other incomes into account, that is still ridiculous. 40k*12 is not even a third of that number. Btw the average working population within a household is 1.34 in Taipei City. Not 3.

Finally, according to official statistics, average salary in all of Taiwan is around 50k. Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/taiwan/wages (It's hard to find something in English as you obviously wouldn't be able to read Chinese).

Now a one bedroom costs 26k in Taipei city center? Is this a joke? It's not even 15k.

And again the salary is way higher than 40k in Taipei city. This site is turning into a joke.

#Jack Barnes, It's safer than western countries
People are well educated and well behaved than most Asian countries.
MRT system is very clean and efficient, you have to buy a transit card - 悠遊卡
Their transit card can also use at shops like 7-11 or coffee shops.
I really like this city more than Canada, it's my 7th year in here.

Average income in Taipei is way higher than this number.
About 55K a month.
Some people use different IP to type the fake number try to lower the average, we all know it isn't real!

No the average has been given as 40k to 50k NTD per month for Taipei city only (including bonuses).

Outside the average drops except for Hsinchu.

Average household income is all members of the household and all assets, that's a different thing!

Lol these numbers are a joke. The crowd source is absolutely laughable. The average salary in Taipei is 60-65k (data from actual household income report).

Graduates make less money everywhere in the world.

Average Salary in Taipei is around mid 40k before Income Tax. Also per capital Credit Card debt in Taipei as of 2018 is now raised to 250k NTD a person. 50% of young workers earn roughly 22k-25k, 50% of them carry debt. The majority of Wealth in Taiwan is held by the Boomer Generation.

average monthly salary 56K NT after tax? where did the figure came from? ask around and get feedbacks from the local graduates and/or those who have less than 3 or above 3 years and less than 5 years work experience. trust me, majority of them will answer you they are getting paid less than 50K/month (before taxes)

@NYCTRADERZ

You talk as if soaring house prices are a good thing. Laughable.

What are some of your government data from? You guys are having the most pointless argument in history. The average household income in Taipei is 1.5 million per annum. 55-70k per month (1800-2200 USD) on average is about right.

And give me a fucking break. In which country isn't the average skewed to the ultra rich? I feel like none of you idiots really know what the word "average" means.

Lisa A, thats cause you work for a Foreign company enjoy those benefits. Most people in Taiwan dont work for foreing companies. I make about 250k a month and hire engineerings and other employees from HTC, HongHai, Ren Bao, Gogoro so I have a good idea what people make in Taipei and its not a lot as I have data sheets for all job sectors including bonuses. Also have direct knowledge from friends and family cousins and HR friends to draw from thousands of examples along with Taiwans own Treasury ministrys statistics. In fact Google has raised wages 33% on all ex HTC employees and increase benefits forcing HTC to raise wages to retain its current staff. Taipeis real average and medium has always been about 40k

Agreed Robbin, I've been living in Taipei for 18 years, 58,000 is 30% more than every Government statistic on Salaries in Taipei. Whats more is this is after tax. The ultra wealthy dont live on wages but assets. Wages for average Taipei citizen including bonuses after tax according to Government Data is about 40k pre tax...After Tax is probably 38k

At this pont Tokyo is a good investment in 2018. 15 mins from Center of Tokyos downtown....300k USD for Brand new 3 Bedroom detached house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w

Now this is a sane investment as rental can fetch quite a lot. Salary is high to justify the cost and there are many renters in this part of town.
Japans real estate bubble has burst a while back due to aging/ dwindling population something Taiwan is about to go through.

JIN you insulting facts sounds like youve made a very bad investment and youre about to realize a severe less. No need to attack someone else for your bad decisions. You're about to lose a lot of money and calling others idiot isn't going to help your situation. Best to don't put all your eggs in one basket with real estate investments so you don't get so defensive. There is a lot more balance in some western markets right now like the US, Canada for example is not as Toronto and Vancouver has seen severe losses recently.

Lots of markets are in a bubble now, even in Uzebekistans capital Azgabat a 1000sq ft condo goes for 500k USD! There is no reason for this as I've studied the area/rent etc. In Malaysias Sabah reigion in the Jungle there are poorly built condos selling for 500k USD! All are incredible bubbles of speculation. Jin I can clearly tell you're a speculation buyer....its called gambling, you can make a lot if the timing is right but you can lose a lot of the timing is bad because the rental value is incredibly low compared to purchase price. Singapore and HK still demand a decent rental return on price.

Why not also compare the ratio of rent and property price to other Asian cities such as Bangkok, Seoul, Shanghai, etc.
Beijing property is almost at least twice as expensive as Taipei property. Don't you think the property price in Beijing isn't acceptable either, you idiot. It is very idiotic of you in the first place to compare Asian cities with cities from America or Euro.
Unless being suppressed of the property price by the current Taiwan government, Taipei property price should have already caught up with similar cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, etc. So it is just a matter of time, Taipei property will climb up to where it belongs where its colleagues are now. (The property price of future Taipei can be predicted accurately now just by looking at its colleagues)
Crooked Semi-foreigner ! Fighting for Taiwan doom will never work with your idiotic slander !