Busy with their lumber business, his parents sent him to Tainan to be cared for by his grandmother, returning to Taipei only when he was in kindergarten.
謝嘉亨，1965 年出生於台北，經營木材生意的父母因工作忙碌，將他託給住在台南的外祖母照顧，直到讀幼稚園時才回台北。