Are you sitting at home in front of your computer, searching ebay for obscure bargains? Is that you shovelling the driveway you just shovelled twenty minutes ago?

Do those cold, rainy Southeast Alaska/Northwestern US/North Atlantic winters have you down? Were you actually writing a list of the people who'd miss you if you were gone?

If you answered yes to any of these or other questions then consider sunny Taiwan! The winters are comfortably warm, the cities are noisy and hectic in a way that your social life never has been, the locals are just as weird as the foreigners and generally friendlier too.

The living is cheap, the food is good and each day is a new adventure in nonverbal communication. Happiness is only a 16 to 20 hour plane ride away!