Taiwan's Hollywood Formosa Television's Chen Shen-ching points out that on average it takes only 20 or 30 minutes to get to the blue ocean or the green mountains in Kaohsiung. For Taipei residents, who on weekends and vacations exhaust themselves snarled in traffic leaving town, and so find it difficult to achieve the intended result of relaxing the body and mind, it must seem a Heavenly pleasure.
民視南部新聞中心主任陳申青指出，在高雄平均只要二、三十分鐘就可以親近蔚藍的海、青翠的山，這對於過去為了休閒、度假疲於奔命，總是身陷車陣、難以達到紓解身心效果的台北都會人而言，簡直是天大的享受。