Taipei is disappointing_I was "forced" to live in Taiwan under the epidemic 07

As an unstoppable traveler, I always want to experience new things, but Taipei is the city I come back to. I don't know why, there is a feeling of "seeing each other at first sight" and "seeing each other too late".

To share my infinite love for Taipei, I brought my family here last year.

Pushing open the taxi door and coming to a familiar place again, it's nice! I was immersed in excitement when I heard the family say:

"Isn't this Chenjia Village? That's what Taipei is like?"

"Chenjia Village" is an urban village near my home, dirty and run down, which was demolished a few years ago in the great project of "creating a civilized city".

This noun-like adjective was like a basin of cold water pouring over me. "So" is "how"?

So along their line of sight, I began to look at some "this" that I "ignored". Is it a low tin house? Is it dim light? Is it a narrow alley? Is it a hotel lobby that cannot be seen at a glance?

Taipei is really not glamorous enough, and it can even be said to be a little old.

Maybe it's the "internationalization" that makes my family look forward to Taipei as soon as I talk about it, and there is a gap between the current appearance and the imagined prosperity.

But the New Year's Eve party and the 101 fireworks with hundreds of thousands of people sitting together on the floor are really international to me, because I only watched the "Spring Festival Gala" or it was on TV. The quiet and tidy MRT is really international to me, because I crowd the subway with a lot of people every day, and I often watch the "quarrel and fight" staged on the subway. The large number of films in the literary theater chain is really international for me, because I want to see the films that are not cut, and I have to take a boat through Hong Kong and live under the regulation that I can’t go abroad more than twice a year.

I thought that internationalization in my eyes is what all Chinese aspire to, but unfortunately, more people care about neon lights and tall buildings.

It was then that I remembered that a family member once told me that it would take five years for a trip to a city in China to be "reviewable" because one could see the rapid development.

After the reform and opening up on the mainland, great changes have taken place, and it is true that everywhere is full of vitality. Every city is frantically copying the Hong Kong model, building high-rise buildings and developing real estate. A few years after college, the bookstore street in my hometown disappeared. I saw a red and green skyscraper turned out. A "Paris Tower" was built outside the shopping mall for everyone to take pictures and check in. A giant water tank was built in the shopping mall. The curtain, the stream of people is endless. Every city is like this.

As a traveler who is "nostalgic", I am not interested in the cookie-cutter development of the mainland, but the "oldness" of Taipei can comfort my heart the most. I will stay in the same room in the same hotel and visit the same wonton shop. what! You are still here! This is my connection to this place, the experience of my life, the small imprint of my existence.

When I first came to Taipei five years ago, I thought Ubike was very advanced. After returning to the mainland, there was a rapid wave of shared bicycles, wow, so happy, more cars are better to use. And soon, the excess bicycles piled up into a mountain of garbage, but the usable ones became less and less, and it was difficult to find a fault-free one. Every part of the ride made a noise. Then I changed to a new brand of bicycles, and the 300 RMB deposit of the original brand could no longer be returned. Such "new" and "fast" are more than disappointing!

So Ubike, I sigh every time I come, why are you still here, still the same good ride? And Mayor Ke wants to roll out 2.0, but it just seems to be going slowly. I wonder if Taipei citizens are satisfied or disappointed with Ubike's new plan?