You can only see roasted sugar cane by the roadside: Although the collapse of local industries and outmigration of population are common problems faced by all small towns and rural communities in Taiwan, limitations in the objective environment have meant that Puli was unlikely to be like similar locales that found a road to survival in tourism or service industries.
路旁只見烤甘蔗儘管地方產業沒落、人口外流，是台灣鄉鎮發展共同面臨的問題，但客觀環境的限制，讓埔里也難像其他鄉鎮一樣，從觀光、服務業上找出路。