If they had known all along that they would return, they wouldn't have forked out on decorating their new home, and they wouldn't have sold their 1980-square-foot apartment on Tunhua South Road. Today they just look at Taipei's real estate prices and sigh.
如果早知道還會回來，蔣小台說，當初搬新家就不會大費周章地裝潢，之後又把這棟位於敦化南路的五十五坪房子賣掉，如今只能望台北的房價興嘆。