This is why he chose to stay on in Ilan, even though his parents had moved to Canada shortly after he returned to Taiwan, leaving him with no immediate family in Taiwan. It was here too that he met and married his wife Li Ching-hui, who had quit a newspaper job in Taipei to seek her cultural ideals in Ilan.
因此，儘管父母在他回台後不久便移民加拿大，在台灣再無親人的黃聲遠還是選擇隻身留在宜蘭，同時也結識自台北報社辭職，前來宜蘭尋找文化理想的妻子李靜慧。