After reading lots of posts, I can see that the topic of FSU women is a BIG subject. So, here is a question for you, just to make it a touch bigger.
Basically, I live in Hooterville, USA. No, not the big boobs of Hooters, but the small midwestern city kind of Hooterville from the TV shows. The city is 170,000 with very little 'burbs. Total metro area 240,000. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for a son I love dearly that I share with my soon to be ex. It is not a bad city, but it is a bit, well, white, middle-class, Christian and somewhat dull. A great place to raise kids, but forgot about museums, cultural activities, or people from a foreign land (although, I am friends with a nice French woman).
Okay, so, I am out of here when my son is grown, say in 10 years. But now I am here. My marriage is over (without bitterness, believe or not, and papers almost ready to sign), and has been over years. I met my ex somewhere else because, well, I couldn't meet anyone here. I feel almost certain that my love life in this place will be as dull as it was in years past. All 30-45 yo women here are divorced with kids, many under 30 are single with kids. So much for the Christian values thing! If they are pretty, they got married at 25.
By the way, I am almost 41. You can see why I mention the age ranges above.
So, as I start putting my life back together, I might be interested in the FSU dating approach. It looks promising. I know I won't probably get started on a new mate for sometime, but having been in a dead-end relationship for several years, I feel like I got divorce 5 years ago.
I read Elena's ebook, have read lots on this forum. But my question is: what will an FSU woman find attractive about Hooterville? An intelligent, educated, interesting woman from St. P is going to (love/hate) this place? Or, do I need to be thinking about a Ukrainian farm girl?
One mitigating factor, though: I am self-employed, and all I need is my laptop to work. So, I am very mobile. I like to spend time in Paris each year, and I travel all the time. Would that help? I gather that some of you actually have experience with the FSU and its peoples, so maybe I could get some ideas. Thanks.... Tom
Tom,
I also have concerns but I am from a city with 4 million people and have concerns that my city is to large in size!!!
I will be only able to comment on hearing what other members have wrote on various forums and websites about your question???
First, You must decide if you prefer a housewife or Career Lady?? Now you must decide if you want a rural or urban lady??? It will be difficult to take a career urban lady and live in Hooterville. But the good thing is that you are mobile and can work at home. This sounds perfect for rural housewife Lady!!! You will see what I am talking about when reading different profiles of Ladies from larger cities and small village towns.
It is human nature to grow but is more difficult to go backwards in culture developments. I guess what I'm trying to say their is a big Difference regarding a city and country lady regardless of their Home Country. Certain things are always the same!!!
You really want to think over what type on Lady you prefer and also think about where you live to avoid future problems with this Lady. I hope this makes some sense and helps you with your question!!!
Remember Beautiful Ladies exist in the city as well as the Country side in Russia and Ukraine!!!!
The answer to your 'problem' is really quite obvious, and will only take a small bit of research on your part.
First off, do not pursue FSU women from big cities! They are very unlikely to enjoy your small town life. If you are so interested that you have to write one of them, make sure you are very upfront with how you live.
But, what you really should be doing is looking at the cities that the women list they live in then look at an online atlas. 170k people in a city is NOT a small town and you will find plenty of women in the FSU who live in towns of similar size. For example, Vitebsk, a major city in Belarus, has only a population of 300k or so living in the city. Is that too dis-similar? Anyway, Texas Tex's advice is good.
I grew up in a city in the midwest with 2,500 people in it - closest "meteropolitan area" (if you can call it that) of about 150,000 people was 30 miles away.
Today, I live IN that "metropolitan area" after moving around a little, but never more than 40 miles from here.
I knew right off the bat that looking for a girl from Moscow, or St Petersburg was not likely to work for me. So I decided to look in Ukraine.
As many of you know, I am a firm believer in "Romance Socials" which seem to get some bad press in this forum. The most convenient social at the time was to be held in Odessa Ukraine. Now I know that Odessa has more than a million people, but many are not strictly urbanized as they might be in the States.
The jury is still out for me regarding how well things went - its likely I will go back and look again.
There IS a strange draw to big cities among many FSU women. Whereas many of us associate big cities with things like urban-blight, increased crime, etc. I often hear FSU women speak in an uncomplimentary way of anyone NOT living in her coutry's capital or major city as being "from the village". You DON'T want to be perceived as being "from the village".
But I know there are small town girls very anxiuos to find a guy in every FSU country as well.