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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Airbnb

How much was the rent per month?

Around 700€ (1400€ for two people)

Where was it located?

In Zhongzheng district, close to guting mrt station

How can someone find this place?

https://www.airbnb.fr/rooms/40454396?adults=2&check_in=2025-09-01&check_out=2025-12-31&location=Taipei%20City%2C%20Taiwan&search_mode=regular_search&source_impression_id=p3_1744223517_P3fJfg0_tsHUGFZW&previous_page_section_name=1001&federated_search_id=d948ae49-ed37-451a-8ee4-8783a7dd150e

Would you recommend it?

Yes it was a very nice appartement, very good location (close to mrt). One of the problem was that there was no kitchen and not a lot of cheap restaurant close to it (just convenient store)

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Cool bars are not so close maybe 15 to 20 min of mrt

🎓 Uni life at Fu Jen Catholic University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Globally, courses are not really interesting. I had business courses like : human ressources, management, social media marketing… I only like the fact that I just had courses from monday to wednesday.

Do you have some tips?

The campus is cool, very big with a lot of trees. But it is quite far from my appartement (50min with mrt) because it is in New Taipei and not in Taipei. Registration was quite easy because i had a buddy (a local student who help international students). I think choosing a university which in Taipei is a better idea but if you don’t have the choice it is still okay to go to FJUC cause you only have course during 3 days.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Taiwan is a very good country to travel: a lot of transports around the all island. We have the choice : mountains, cities, beaches, rice paddy, tea plantations…

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

It is really easy to move : many bus and mrt lines.Many night markets and food shops which are quite cheap.

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

350€

Where was it located?

15 min from the school

How can someone find this place?

wouldn't recommend sorry

Would you recommend it?

something else just because I had that one roommate, clearly awful, not clean etc...

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

don't know sorry, I didn't party often

🎓 Uni life at Soochow University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Business Management, Negotiation class, and Political class (very interesting)

Do you have some tips?

There were 2 campuses: the main campus ( far from town - about 1hour) and the downtown campus. So when you have to select your classes, be careful which campus you select!

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Philipines, Japan, China of course

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

Everything is so cheap and so good! omg the food is amazing! But be careful with the weather: it's super hot and leads you to just go get a drink 3-4 times a day, and thus could be expensive at the end. But every district is cool, a lot of café, a lot of different activities and sport!

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

650€/month

Where was it located?

In Daan District, by the Shida Night Market

How can someone find this place?

Facebook page of the landlord : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083135231681&locale=fr_FR

Would you recommend it?

Staying in Daan District is the best location. Yo House has many housing options with different budget as well and the landlord is super chill. Personally, my shared apartment is fully renovated and has 4 rooms. I pay 650€/month, but I have the biggest room with my own bathroom, so it's cheaper for the others.

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Perfect evening : Begin at Maji Square and then head to Taipei 101 (Ruff, Wave, La Fin Babylon)...just go club hopping! If you miss the pints of beer, go to Another Brick which is by Taipower Building station, all the French students are there.

🎓 Uni life at NCCU

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Recommended for Fall Semester : "Chinese Business in Global Perspectives", "Confucianism and Leadership". These classes actually teach you more about the culture and allow you to get a different point of view on business, compared to the one we are taught in France. Also, "Special Topics on Profit Models" is very easy credits to earn and finishes early in the semester. Be careful : some ETP classes are hard (e.g. Investment Analysis) and will require a certain amount of personal work.

Do you have some tips?

NCCU's campus is nice and well-organized, but not in the center of Taipei (plan around 45 minutes of transportation from Daan District). If you wish to join the Double Degree program, go to NCCU, otherwise NTU is more recognized worldwide.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

All the trips in Asia are convenient from Taipei. For travelling around the island, the fast train takes 1.5h to take you to the south. For travelling abroad, the metro takes you to the airport and you can find cheap flights for any destination (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Seoul...).

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

You MUST have an umbrella, or steal one outside the 7-Eleven. And go to the Soy Milk in Zhongshan every time you head to that district.

💡 Other Tips

Plan a trip for every weekend or so. It goes very fast.

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

700

Where was it located?

Daan district, close to university and where mostly all exchange students live. Close to bars and cheap restaurants.

How can someone find this place?

591 (official Taiwanese website for finding accommodation, but all in Chinese)

Would you recommend it?

I arrived in Taipei without any accommodation thinking it would be easy to find once I’m there. Turns out it’s not so easy so it’s better to find beforehand through Facebook groups while keeping in mind you can easily get scammed so be sure to ask for a FaceTime apartment tour. When using your computer you can translate the website but when you contact the landlord some of them might not speak English at all. So I would not recommend being last minute to find your accommodation :)

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Bars: Revolver, another brick, barcade, the shrine. Rabitthole: dancing bar with house music and sometimes technk Clubs: Xinyi district is mostly clubs and each club has their day of the week where it’s free entry and free drinks for girls. -Wave (Wednesday) remixed techno songs - AI (Thursday) commercial - Ruff (Thursday: free entry but not free flow) American rap music - Babylon (Saturday, free entry not free flow) Other clubs: La fin Taipei and Final for techno (entry is never free though)

🎓 Uni life at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Geopolitics and Business: - class in itself not very interesting but easy and not time consuming Mandarin: - good if you want to know more about the culture but there are tests every 1-2weeks depending on your level Culture and Life in Taiwan’s traditional society: - easy, not time consuming and great to know a bit more about Taiwan’s history Contemporary Taiwanese society (at NTU) - same as above, a bit useless, assignments are not very interesting Introduction to Taiwan politics (at NTU) - plenty of exchange students - really nice and passionate tutor - mid term and exam assessment though (but tutor makes everything easy for you to be sure you’ll pass)

Do you have some tips?

Campus in itself is not amazing, but large swimming cool and plenty of cantines to have lunch at cheap prices. It was also associated to National Taiwan University which is right across the street and is really nice and huge. Registration was fairly easy and yes I would pick the same uni as it is well located and easily accessible in taipei

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Seoul (really nice city trip, 4 complete days at least) Japan (didn’t go but really close) Philippines (same as above) Indonesia (100% recommend) Vietnam (at the end of your exchange or two weeks if you can skip classes)

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

Night markets, Youbikes (Public bikes like velib, but are free without any membership for the first 30 minutes) Go to the beach which is 1h30 away by bus from Taipei Go on hikes Plan long week ends across Taiwan the landscapes are truly amazing

💡 Other Tips

Try to plan your class schedule on two or three week days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday for example) so you have plenty of time to visit and go around Taiwan and abroad which is an essential part to your exchange !!

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

Around 500€ per month

Where was it located?

In Xinyi district, 20 min to walk to 101 tower

How can someone find this place?

Facebook student group

Would you recommend it?

Yeah it was nice, a bit small but still alright. But I think, if I have to chosse a new one, I would go to Da'an district.

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Another Brick (Belgium bar and cheapest), barcade, Fake sober, family mart AI club, wave, Lafin, ruff, DD, Babylon,... depends the mood Maji Square is nice Halloween, national day of taiwan, ultra taiwan,

🎓 Uni life at NTUST

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Don't take to much graduate course, it's more difficult to pass it here.

Do you have some tips?

it was really nice. Check the sport schedule before try. There are class sometime. Take class in other uni, it's cool

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

From Taipei, travel is cheap if you're organised. I did HK, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai. Lot of people did philipines and vietnam. The south of taiwan nice to and easy to go. You can surf from taipei (1h30 with the bus)

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

Really easy to leave. Transports are convenient. You can find cheap food, but it's difficult to find healthy food sometimes.

🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

642

Where was it located?

Linguang station, Da'an District

How can someone find this place?

Elegant realty (taiwanese realty website)

Would you recommend it?

Yes it was a nice apartement but there were a lot of little problems (leaks, and dirty) so I wouldn't recommend to take the exact same. I would recommend though to take an apartment with some friends to have a much better apartment for a better price

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

BEST CLUB : Wave club Taipei. Good clubs : Ruff, rabbit hole, maji square, AI, Babylon. Nice bars : fake sober Nice rooftops : CE LA VIE, Babylon, Frank(shisha bar). 10 october : Show at 101 taipei 31 october : Halloween (a must)

🎓 Uni life at National Chengchi University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

I have chosen challenging courses so I wouldn't recommand them if you want to explore and travel around asia. I wouldn't recommend : macroeconomics and economics.

Do you have some tips?

Campus was great. Very big and easily accessible. A lot of tennis court,basketball courts, athletic courts. 2 gyms, 1 pool and more. The school is near a lot of restaurant and street food which is great.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

hong-kong and shanghai (1h50), vietnam(hanoi) 2h30, japan (tokyo) 3h50, japan (okinawa) 1h. Mainland china (1h), Cambodia (phnom penh) (3hrs20), philippines (Manila) 2h20, thailand (bangkok) 3h30. All the flight are very cheap and the companies are generally very good. I would recommend taking Tiger air (low cost taiwanese company), very efficient, on time and nice flight attendants.

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

Cost of living is low 3-5€ per meal, club are open bars wednesday, thursday and sometimes friday, Transport is very efficient. Need to visit around taipei : dragon caves jumps up north east, jiufen, maokong gondola, taipei zoo (biggest in asia and a great one overall), Capybara bar, ximending night market. Take a good coat because it will rain a lot during typhoon season.

💡 Other Tips

I took taipei mainly because of the opportunity to travel a lot around asia. But don't make the mistake of not visiting taiwan ! there are some great spots : turtle island in the south, kenting beaches in the south Hualien city in the east, sun moon lake in the center of taipei (like annecy lake in france but the scenery is much different) and my favorite a MUST !! Alishan national park.

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

520€

Where was it located?

30min from school and near of everything (I was in Daan)

How can someone find this place?

The name of my landlord is Kevin Twu. He is really peachy tho. To find a place you must use Facebook Marketplace or an agency in the country

Would you recommend it?

I would recommend to look out way before you come at least two months and everyday. The good flats are taken really quickly, and the rent is not that cheap, as I said I was paying 520 for my a private room around of 13m2 and my private bathroom. The rest was shared so the kitchen. If you want your own apartment you will have to pay at least 600/700€ or even more. The best neighbourhood of Taipei to hang out and find a lot of things to do is Da’an district. I live one month in Wanhua and it’s not a good neighbourhood. In Taiwan when we say it’s not a good one it doesn’t mean that it’s dangerous, not at all, the whole country is 1000% safe really except rare exception of course. It’s just the neighbourhood is not clean, there are some homeless and prostitute… If I had to choose again I will take Da’an or Cimej which is also good, and take more time to find a good one. Btw, usually you have to give a deposit of one month or 2 of your rent that you will get back when your lease is finished. And read carefully the lease they give and the dates. Normally, there is no scam with Taiwanese people but be careful in case because the only way to find flat is Facebook market.

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

To hang out you can go to Xinyi it’s a street with a lot of night club and bars more in Taiwanese vibes or go to in the Maji square which is more international vibe. A lot of night clubs are free of entrance for example the Babylon which is a roof top with an amazing view on Taipei 101. The RUFF which is also in Xinyi is 500$ (14€ with 1 drink) for the entrance but sometimes some people share photos with free entrance and you can use it at anytime but you have to let people who have nice ahah.

🎓 Uni life at Soochow University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

I don’t really have a class to recommend, I really liked the UX design class because you have to project to print with a 3D printer. But otherwise I didn’t have a huge love with a class there. It’s pretty easy and not that interesting sometimes… The only I could advice would be to take class of Mandarin, i didn’t and I definitely regret.

Do you have some tips?

Yes the campus was nice there is a gym in the downtown campus, a little one but it’s free, and others stuff for sport. There was a lot of charities/associations there ! I integrated one of them it was a music one, there is a studio in the downtown campus as well which is so cool, I met most of my Taiwanese friends there and they will welcome you. The fees to be in the association was 25€ for the semester but you have a lot of instruments there. You could also participate to concerts they organize, sometimes it’s in the school or most of the time in a real bars. Btw, if you love jam there are really good one in Taipei, I went every week to Red room rendez-vous, you will meet a lot of good people there. Also the rev now which is more jazzy and chill. And I think soochow is a good uni but I know the best one is NTU (National Taiwan University.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Omg I have so many things to advice you if you travel in Taiwan if you like hikes, beautiful beaches, adventures… there is everything. Take my ig because it’s really long to explain that here. I will probably create a special story for that there : @djuuuuuuu I will just give places where you have to go : Hike around Taipei of course, Keelung coast the most beautiful place in Taiwan, Jade mountain the highest peak of east-Asia, Kenting for amazing beaches, Taitung I love this city and if you go there you must go to green island by boat and do diving there it’s one of the best spot in the world, you can see whale shark and even if you do snorkelling you will see a loooot of things, Kaoshiung also why not if you go there you have to go the National Buddha museum, the national park of taroko is amazing just hope is open you will read that because right now it’s closed because of earthquakes, I could also go by car of scooter. Oh really important point, if you wanna drive a car there you must apply for an international permit.

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

In the whole country you will pay, 90% of the time, by cash so be aware of that.

💡 Other Tips

No juste enjoy your trip and Taiwan is really safe, the people are shy but if you have any issues they will be there for sure. I have never felt such a love and welcoming and help from the Taiwanese people. Also try to find international WhatsApp group, I was in few of them and they organized some activities like to see daulphins around of Turtle Island in the north. Get a local SIM card it will be way cheaper than anything else and they have unlimited data’s. Use WhatsApp to communicate. And remember Taiwan is not China, they have the same culture, they also speak mandarin in Taiwan but there is also the Taiwanese language but it’s not the national language. If you speak English you will be fine they are improving their English skills in Taiwan. If you have any questions you can add me on Instagram I willl be glad to help you <3 @djuuuuuuuuuu

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

1200

Where was it located?

District de Wanhua

How can someone find this place?

Airbnb

Would you recommend it?

I was not really a good one but we were next to a good place called Ximen nice spot

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Ai, Ruff, babylone, C la vie, maji square

🎓 Uni life at Soochow University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

There is a lot of interesting subject like a lot of management or trade for example (a bit hard)

Do you have some tips?

There were 2 campus, in the center and one very far away be careful to take subjects in the right campus

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Turtle island (shanfu village) was the first trip I made it was in south we dived around turltes it was amazing

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

Night life was amazing, be careful with the food it was hard for me to really enjoy local food. There a lot of things to visit like temples

💡 Other Tips

There is self service bike you can use thanks to you transport card that’s really useful

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

550

Where was it located?

Neihu, 40 minutes from school by transport but nice neighborhood

How can someone find this place?

Facebook

Would you recommend it?

I recommend it if you are sharing an apartment, the rents are cheaper and you have a direct metro line but it is far from the center. The neighborhood is crazy and not very touristy with a local market.

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

IA Club, Revolver bar...

🎓 Uni life at NCCU

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

I don't remember. Just look at the class time and the schedule

Do you have some tips?

The campus is large. I highly recommend the school, but don't live there it's complicated.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Malaysia, Langkawi

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

very safe and easy, people was cool

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Student Residence

How much was the rent per month?

200€

Where was it located?

10 mins walk from campus

How can someone find this place?

School website

Would you recommend it?

The accommodation was sufficient for a 6 month exchange. You have to buy everything for the room and there isn’t any kitchen (there is a family mart downstairs). I liked it but the only downside was that the campus is far from the city.

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Best club for international: brickyard Best bar: Cinjin sunset bar, right in front of the beach

🎓 Uni life at I-Shou Kaoshiung

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

All the business classes were good. I personally didn’t took the Chinese class, a friend confirmed me that it was useless.

Do you have some tips?

The campus was huge with a lot of facilities and it’s on a hill (prepare your cardio haha). People from the administration were really here for us and help us if we had any questions.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

I traveled to Japan, Philippines and Vietnam with really affordable prices. Also around the island.

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

Everything is super easy and made for you to have an easy life. Use google translate to speak to people.

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

520€

Where was it located?

30min from school and near of everything (I was in Daan)

How can someone find this place?

The name of my landlord is Kevin Twu. He is really peachy tho. To find a place you must use Facebook Marketplace or an agency in the country

Would you recommend it?

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

🎓 Uni life at Soochow University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Do you have some tips?

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

🌆 Taipei vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Taipei?

In the whole country you will pay, 90% of the time, by cash so be aware of that.

💡 Other Tips

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