Come to Taiwan. We are the first(and only) Asian country to acknowledge same sex marriage.

You will be safe here and have freedoms.

Perfect. Now get China to leave Taiwan the fuck alone too. Seriously. Fetch is not going to happen.

I voted for the first time in the Taiwan elections. Fuck the CCP.

I think it makes it harder for us to scrape their site and copy and paste it here.

PepsiCo is in the finding out part of this fuck around.

Taiwan has paid time off for mothers(not dad’s). Usually a month or so. There are no housing benefits in Taiwan that I know of. The incentive is def a small portion of how much a child costs, but it’s not a little. I get like 8000nt a month directly deposited into my account. I also get schooling incentives. It is basically free cash that pays around 25% of my child’s schooling/daycare.

China has a brutal 996 culture if you’re lucky to even have a job. Nobody is going to start making babies when a VERY large % of your young population is unemployed.

I hate to do this, but I feel like Taiwan(numba 1) is doing this better than China(numba 4).

The Taiwan government is literally giving money to have kids. The more kids you have, the more monthly cash they give you. I think our president said something along the lines of “it’s up to our country to take care of all children of Taiwan”. I’m paraphrasing.

Not just cash, we also have infrastructure setup. Most malls, government buildings and public places have breastfeeding rooms. There is almost always a bathroom designated for people with children. There are even bathrooms set up with small tiny toilets. There is a designated area for kids to sit on the train. There are designated elevators for kids.

Plus healthcare is free/cheap so that helps.

If China wants more babies, it needs to start giving the people things that promote having kids. Unless you force them to have kids… I guess because you can. Fuck the CCP.

Which part? Maybe I’ll visit there next time.

Also, I’m coming from Taiwan which is very VERY friendly to kids and families. So I guess I was expecting a similar experience.

Don’t get me wrong Mario land was great. But just weird shit drove us mad even inside a family friendly place like Universal Studios.

We had a friend with us that had a 3 year old girl with them. The airline lost their stroller(this was an major ordeal, nobody spoke English at the airports there)so they decided to rent from Universal Studio instead.

First of all, the person who was attending the stroller section didn’t speak a lick of English. Fine. Whatever. We used Google translate. He asked us how old the girl was and I said 3 years old.

The next question was
"Is it her birthday? "…

Us: ummmm, no. That was a month ago.

They immediately said: "No rent to you. "

Wtf dude. Why?!?! Because the rules are 3 years old or younger. That means less than 36 months, not less than 48 months.

Just random shit like that seems the norm for the Japanese.

Visited Japan(Osaka) recently with my 5 year old son. While there is infrastructure setup for people with kids such as stroller only elevators, kids/elder section on the train, nobody, I mean, nobody followed the rules. Regularly the stroller only elevators were full and nobody got out. Or able body adults didn’t even glance up to let my sleepy child sit in the kids designated seats.

There were glares at us when my son was having a hard time, almost like we were inconveniencing them.

In my week-long experience there, people in general are not tolerated for children. No wonder nobody wants kids. I wouldn’t want to if I was treated that way.

Also an acceptable name.

The only way it will be unified is when it’s called Mainland Taiwan.

Ahh yes. On the same trip we went to see the Sistine chapel and those security did the same thing to us. We weren’t even next to the security guys but wow. Dude was annoyingly loud. Even the people trying to pray was looking up annoyed at the security guard.

Also unless you’re doing an extremely long exposure, you ain’t getting any photos in there.

I specifically remember my first visit to Venice. I remembered going to a church to see the art. All the tourist were relatively quiet compared to the security person screaming to us to be quiet using a louspeaker. He used his louspeaker to make the loudest SHHHHH sound imaginable and them followed up with scream to us that “This is a church, everyone must be quiet”.

Overall it was a terrible experience.

Real question: what happens when Putin starts using nukes. Because it seems like that’s the direction it’s headed.

I’m pretty sure Putin doesn’t have the power to bring back the dead, but wishful thinking tho Russian women.

Fortunately my wife speaks the language and was able to get around ok.

The single visit was unimpressive as a parent.

I think it mostly stems from the attitude they gave my son and the unwillingness to not occupy the kids/elderly seats on the train.

There was also a situation when we were at the airport and the wind was so intense that it blew my son’s stroller over along with all our luggage. My son was rolling towards the street. 3 Japanese men stood behind us and stared. 2 of them laughed before proceeding past us without a hint of helping. In America, all 3 men would have helped. In Taiwan they would have done the same thing. I have a video of it since I was taking a time lapse on my 360 camera if you feel it’s not enough proof.

Also, Women often have to give up their careers and be the primary child bearing person when she becomes a mother. Fathers are not required to give up their jobs. Video shown here. https://youtu.be/QNbabCMTFzw?si=hzanmej9l7ECCMgN

I recently visited Osaka for the first time with my 5 year old son. The kids culture is borderline toxic there. It’s hard to explain. In America, if you have a kid and he/she is screaming because they are being a kid. About the mass majority of people are not really bothered by it. I would even say that some people are sympathetic of the parent.

In Osaka, they are so annoyed that your kid exists and takes up space.

Let me give you some examples,: I had a Japanese woman sitting in front my son. She kept glaring at us for hours because my son was using his tray table on his flight to Japan. He wasn’t banging the tray table. Literally just using it.

We tried to go into some nice restaurants but were turned away because they don’t allow kids, like they are dogs.

Seats reserved for kids and elderly on the train were regularly occupied by abled body adults… They would get up for elders but would ignore the kids and continue sitting. This was also true for stroller only elevators.

There is so much to list.

Maybe it’s just Osaka. But I understand why people don’t want to have kids there now.