Thanks for reading! I decided to live in Taipei this year to try it out. So technically I'm a local. Yes, if you're from the United States, name brand products like Nike, Apple, Playstation tend to be 20-40% cheaper. There's something with the tarriffs in the U.S. that make it cheaper than other countries. I wanted to get some clothes, so I just buy non-branded local designs for around $4 USD. Otherwise a brand name shirts is like $30 USD.