A short note on house hunting in Taipei

This is the tropics, and it's only colder than 70 degrees for a couple of weeks out of the year,  but houses that are listed as having "a pool" charge you for the facility year round and only open the pool for July and August. There are public pools in Anchorage that stay open longer than that. Also, it's still 95 degrees here in December, but I think I might have started to mention that earlier.