[rasz]

Taiwan population is around 24 million. It might be cheaper for US to offer to relocate whole country to the continental North America. Give everyone citizenship and free land, move TSMC to Texas. Make Taiwan island a huge military base.

[NonEUCitizen]

Taiwan has high speed rail, mass rapid transit (MRT) [in Taipei and a few other cities], universal health care, and 24-hour convenience stores within walking distance. Murder rate is low, and COVID is under control.

[chenhungh]

No, thank you. But no. No way.

[bee_rider]

Texas is a ridiculous idea, but how about Connecticut? Near the coast, comfortable 8-24C temperature range, not too far from the US education and business hubs.

[chenhungh]

I think we have good education system to back the semi industry. Most of the semi engineers are trained locally.

[Texasian]

The entire premise is ridiculous.

[bee_rider]

I wouldn't write off the whole premise of the state of Texas as ridiculous, it must have some non-ridiculous features if you look hard enough.

[bigbillheck]

As someone who used to live in Texas, I certainly would.

[content_sesh]

If this isn't some type of thought experiment to prove a point, then this is some off-the-charts chauvinism. Why do you believe they would actually want to relocate here?

[rossdavidh]

It is, ,I'm sure, a thought experiment, but presumably the reason would be to get out of China's military reach. But I don't get the impression it was intended as a serious suggestion.

[bllguo]

the arrogance here is beyond shocking. go gauge an average Taiwanese citizen's interest in your offer, you might be in for a nasty surprise.

[bee_rider]

Taiwan apparently stays between ~50F and ~100F, and the people are used to living near the coast. Putting them in Texas would be cruel. Although California has housing issues, transplanted Taiwan can be put on fresh soil -- no NIMBYs, and the housing development policy for Taiwan, CA can be written from the ground up to avoid previous mistakes.

[mbrodersen]

What on earth makes you think that people in Taiwan wants to move to the US?

[1980phipsi]

Taiwan is bigger than Maryland. We need a military base bigger than Maryland?