The especially close personal relations of people on Penghu mean there is not too much scope for reform. Lin Wen-chen points out that in this small place, people's relationships are labyrinthine. If it's not relatives, it's friends, or teachers and students, or classmates, making the pressure of relationships heavy. Unless you distance yourself even from your immediate family, getting anything done is hard.
特殊緊密的人際關係，使得澎湖甚至沒有太多改革的本錢，林文鎮指出，在這個小地方，人與人之間的關係錯綜複雜，不是親戚、朋友，就是師生、同學，人情壓力大，除非六親不認，否則很難做事。