Your first month in Taiwan will be full of adventures, some of them delightful and some of them frustrating and expensive. Unless you're on some kind of special fellowship (e.g. EACOA, MoST), you will not be provided any money for moving expenses, etc.. You are just expected to arrive with a couple suitcases and hit the ground running. This means you will be faced with a pile of expenses in your first month ranging from hotel bills to apartment deposits, purchasing housewares etc.. We have created short subsections below with information designed to help make the process as pain free and inexpensive as possible.
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Photo: New Taipei City from Xiaobitan MRT station at sunset. (Jonty Marshall)
Last updated: July 23, 2025