"You can still find respect and fellow-feeling among people in the countryside." He fears that with modernization the malevolence typical of large Amerin cities might appear in Taipei, so he's merely "making a break for it a little early."
「人與人的尊重和善意，在鄉下還可以找到」，他擔心隨著現代化類似美國大都市的罪惡，有一天也會在台北出現，他只是提早「逃離」罷了。