I have been toying with the idea of renting a beach house for the last few months. Although rent is cheap outside of Taipei, finding what I was looking for turned out to be more difficult than I thought. All the rental websites are in Chinese and the Taiwanese people I asked usually gave me the deer in the headlights look. A few of them were cognizant enough to tell me that Taiwanese people generally don't own or rent vacation properties, at least not in Taiwan. I had almost given up hope, when I received word from my friend Cera that she knew someone who wanted out of her lease...at her beach house. Luckily, she was moving back home, and not trying to escape a horrible situation.
So I checked out the house today...and it was amazing. The house itself is big, about the same size as my house in Taipei. The rent is only $NT3,000 per month (a little less than $100). The guys who currently live in the house are all surfers, which will make my goal of learning to surf that much more attainable. The house is about 50 meters from the beach, and about 100 meters to the ocean. The house, and the whole town and highway, straddle the mountains, with hiking trails aplenty.
The house itself is in the city of Wai Ao, just north of Tou Cheng (頭城) and south of Fu Long (福隆). Parking is available, so once I buy a car, I will have ample parking. I'm pretty excited.
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