Hello, this is Borderless House!
I’m sure we can’t know the real life of foreign countries, and one of the important point is living cost. How much do we need to live in Taipei for a month?
Today, I’ll introduce how much it would be cost for a month in Taipei(1 month living cost in Taipei)!
■ Rent in Taipei
There are many types of houses in Taipei.
※We will upload regarding the house type later.
If you would like to live by yourself, it would cost around 8,000 NTD-15,000 NTD in general. You can find the house which would cost around 5,000 NTD/month but I recommend you the house over 8,000 NTD thinking about the cleaness and difficulties of negotiation with Taiwanese landlord.
About the rent for living in BORDERLESS HOUSE, the information is as below 😉
-Private room: 12,500~15,000 NTD
-2 Females room: 9,000~9,500 NTD
-2 Males room: 9,000~9,500 NTD
-3 Females room: 7,900~8,800 NTD
-3 Males room: 7,900~8,800 NTD
-4 Females room: 6,900~7,900 NTD
-6 Females room: 6,700 NTD
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■ Utility fee (Water, gas, electricity)
The electricity fee is expensive in Taipei. It exceeds 1,000 NTD/month in summer period.
Water is cheaper and it costs around 200-300 NTD/month.
If your house has a kitchen, gas fee costs around 200-300 NTD/month.
In Borderless House, utility fee is 800 NTD/month including electricity, water, TV, gas and internet fee! (The electric power consumption in summer period would be high, so utility fee for May. to Oct. will be 1,200 NTD.)
■Phone / Internet fee
If you install the internet in your house, it costs around 1,000 NTD/month. (Some landlords kindly include internet fee into the rent.)
You can use tethering by your cell phone and it costs around 800 NTD/month. But some tenants just buy a prepaid card in order to save money and you can get it in around 300NTD.
■Food budget
One of the big expence of living cost is a food budget. There are many restaurant in Taipei and it’s really cheap. Many of tenants spend around 150-300 NTD/day for food&drink.
Break fast：around 50 NTD
Lunch：50-100 NTD
Dinner：50-100 NTD
Drink：20-40 NTD
■Transportation
The tansportation system in Taipei is very convenient and cheap. An one-way metro ticket for the Taipei Metro (MRT) within Taipei City costs about 20NTD. There are also rental bikes (called “U-bikes”)
provided by the city where the first 30min costs 5NTD. As you can see you won’t spend much money on transportation.
■Toiletries
Initial costs for daily toiletries such as toilet paper, hair shampoo and hair conditioner might be high but once you have them you will get along with the above mentioned amount of money.
Moreover, in some drug stores there are special offers where you get two products for a price of one, so again, sharing with your housemate will help you safe money!
■Leisure Activities
Leisure Activities approx. 1000-3000NTD/month
This depends on how much you go out with your friends. A famous leisure activity in Taipei called “shrimp fishing” for example costs around 300NTD per hour. At Taiwanese taverns called “熱炒” (re chao) you can get plates for 100NTD, so count in around 500NTD for a dinner.
We also hold seasonal events for all the tenants in Borderless House, which you can have fun and meet new friends with a low budget!
Check our events review below:
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Go hiking together~enjoy the fresh air on Jinmian Mountatin!
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Sharing your Stories in our Christmas event with our tenants!
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Everyone was able to bond and become closer! – Board Games Event
■Conclusion
Living costs per month in Taipei is around 24,000 NTD – 30,000 NTD.
| -Rent |
8000-15000 NTD |
| -Water, Gas, Electricity fee |
1000-1700 NTD |
| -Internet/phone |
800-1000 NTD |
| – Food |
4500-9000 NTD |
| -Transportation fee |
800 NTD |
| -Toiletries |
500 NTD |
| -Leisure Activities |
1000-3000 NTD |
You can fully enjoy your life in Taipei for 24,000-30,000 NTD/month and if you go to local restaurant or shops, you can save more money!
Let’s enjoy your life in Taipei with Taiwanese and people from all over the world.
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Share House list of Borderless House in Taipei 
If you want to put importance on living comfortable and having your own life, not only enjoying international exchange, I see Machiya1 House is good environment to live in!
Details of Machiya1 House
Share House in Ueno, Asakusa, Akihabara area
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We normally match a tenant to other tenant for Language Exchange.
But this time, we had a chance to work together with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link!
So we are going to participate one of their famous and important program
holding for adoptees, ‘Motherland Tour’ and also,
we are going to match our tenants who are interested in Language Exchange
to their members who are interested in this program either.
Before sharing this wonderful experience with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link,
we would like to introduce this organization briefly to all of you.
Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link (G.O.A.’L) is an organization founded in Seoul, South Korea.
Since it is founded by Adoptee and founded for Adoptee,
they are offering many services for adoptee who is searching for their birth family
such as Birth family search assistance/ translation & interpretation,
visa procedure and Social gathering etc.
And this time, we had an orientation for Language Exchange Program
between our tenant Minkyeong and Ellyn from Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link.
Minkyeong is currently staying in one of share houses in Borderless,
and Ellyn is from USA and currently working as a English teacher in Seoul.
Minkyeong has an experience of staying in USA for her exchange semester in University,
so they had conversation to share their experience of staying in USA.
Also, Ellyn had shared her hilarious experience in Seoul for us.
It was their first time to meet each other, but there were so friendly!
They had about 3 hours of orientation in Borderless House Seoul office,
and they said they will have a dinner together in a few days.
We hope them improve their language skill and be a good friend for each other!
In the beginning of the party, we ate and drank. Let’s get ready to play games 😀
Here are all cute members who joined our event!!
After picnic time, every member had got to know each other.
Then, our first game is coming~~~
Next game~!!! Do you know what were they making?
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( The answer is ” Taipei 101″ !!! )
Last game was our group activity!! Let’s hold our hand and “get the electric shock”!!!
Reward for Winners!!! Congratulations !!!
All of Borderless House staffs are really appreciate everyone who enjoyed our event!! We couldn’t have such a nice picnic event without you!!
All participants had enjoyed to talk with people from other houses during whole event!
You can meet with and make friends with a lot of people from other houses in our event!
Why not live in our share house and make friends with Taiwanese and people from all over the world!
International share house in Taipei – BORDERLESS HOUSE TAIPEI
