But the city affects everyone differently. Chang Chin-yu, presently employed at Kun Shan University of Technology in Tainan County, once spent several years working in Taipei. "I felt powerless in Taipei, like a little cog in the wheel, but I don't feel like that here in the south.
曾在台北工作數年，現任職於台南縣崑山科技大學的張金玉的感覺是，「我在台北覺得自己沒有力量，只是小螺絲釘，在南部就不同了！