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Thank you very much for sharing with me and young fellows of Taipei Rotary New East Club many of your thoughts Saturday afternoon. I trust those young fellows must have been inspired intellecturally in many perspectives no less than what I have been inspired.

One question I had in that first raining day of this winter yet did not have time to ask you is this: you mentioned that Aveda aims to combine work environment into life style for every of its associates. Is this an element you believe what a good enterprise in the future should possess or simply one responsibility you expect Aveda to take?

I agree with your 1% concept. I have been in your cafe a couple of times and will do it more often.

Let me expess on behalf of Taipei New East Rotary Club our gratitude for your taking our young fellows a valuable journey of intellectural exploration.

Hope to meet you often in your blog.

Regards,

Michael Hong
Vice President of Taipei New East Rotary Club

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Thank you for your lovely comment. Let’s inspire each other and fall in love with the intellectual discussion and this community.

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Ping

You are right on. We just want to make our voice heard and create a demand for this kind of lifestyle based living space.

I think it is our fault that we put too much emphasis on the valuation of the property based on Price per Ping. We don’t count the design and the lifestyle living into the total valuation.

Only through the re-education of our younger generation can we stop this conventional wisdom.

This is the reason that I started this blog and wrote monthly column for International Creative Business magazine.

Thank you for contributing in this dialogue.

Ping

Again, we want to make sure that real estate developer can still make money. Therefore, we need to find a most economic way to create this property.

I have so many young people, especially in the creative business, who wrote to me and raise their both hands to support this kind of lifestyle property.

Sometime, I think the only way to make it a reality is to go out to raise money or beg super rich real estate tycoon on my own to build a property like this.

Thanks for your support.

Ping

Please keep searching and spreading the message. If we can create the demand. One day, we will see real estate developer start ingto build big balcony property.

It may require a generation to see this happen. I know my mother generation will think this is crazy to trade off every day used interior space for occasionaly used exterior space.

This is a lifestyle choice, not so much a money issue.

Thank you for your posting.

Ping

You are so right.

I still have a few secret gardens in Taipei so I can enjoy the great outdoor space within 30 minutes of taxi ride. I usually block my time duing the week day and spend the entire afternoon to write and to contemplate at these great outdoor space.

Taipei is the most under-rated city in the world. You can go to the national park, hot spring, ocean, hiking trails, waterfall, mountain get away within one hour drive.

I love Taipei.

Ping

Yes, you are not alone. I just want to use my influence ( if I have any ) to tell Taiwan’s real estate developer to look into this new lifestyle product.

Please note that the total size of the usable space is still only 31.5 Ping. Hopefully, this small size can reduce the price and make it affordable for most middle class who are either sigle or make a conscious decision to stay single or not raising a family.

Thank you for taking time to let me know you support this project.

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