Just my thoughts on differences I've experienced. I know some guys have been in area, I am in a San Jose,CR at the moment. My friend who lives here has introduced me to his friends, guys and girls, and this is important to shorten any learning curves, like approaching women , taxi's and areas not to be in at night.
It is poor here just as ukraine, maybe a step down but in some ways more westernized. The bathrooms are very clean, anywhere you go. Of course all brunettes here, few blondies are colored. Body wise very similar but little more in the caboose. I've only seen girls in 20's at clubs and are eye popping, very approachable, even if you only speak english and wear very revealing clothing, glad for the nice weather. I prefer the dance clubs...down and dirty on the dance floor!!!!:)))Another important fact is being able to talk with girls, I realized this quickly because my russian is poor but my spanish is fine, so I had my best lines going for the girls. I thought if I could speak russian that good my prospects would increase. Think of that, no interpreters, direct contact, speak in stores, taxi's, ect. I do agree with those that say best to be there to meet girls, that goes anywhere, BUT need to have someone there to show you around. I would never just board a plane and fly to any city not knowing anybody
Prices are pretty good on food and drinks, got my jumbo fried shrimp for dirt cheap. Taxi's were $2-3 bucks to get around in central area, they are regulated.
Won't get into details on girls but have done very well...most important is having fun and enjoying myself. By the way, not looking for a partner here.
Beemer, you chose Costa Rica? I haven't been there in particular, but last year I met a guy from the US who flew in to Colombia and said almost 95% of the pretty agency girls in CR were prostitutes, because it was so accepted as supplemental income among the young girls culture there (16-22yr olds). A gringo is a definate catch for any Latin girl.
I do know that prostitution is commonplace in Colombia too. In one agency more than half the pretty girls didn't have a college education, didn't have a full-time job, yet they somehow managed to live on their own. The agency employees know this and will let you know. But agency abuse is rampant there if a girl doesn't like you and isn't attracted to you.
Yes, I do know that a lot of Latin girls prefer a larger posterior on a slender frame due to the hip hop culture of JLO and such. ;p Some even get butt augmentation as common as they get breast surgery. In fact the first time I visited Latin America, an 18 yr old super-hottie who badly wanted me to propose to her had it done, she didn't need any other surgery. Cosmetic surgery is very cheap there. And rather then save up for a car, they get the surgery.
I was simply floored by how extremely passionate these girls are if they do like you. They'd as soon as go to bed with you to prove their worth as much as go out to dinner or shake your hand if your a foreigner.
I'd rather spend winter in Latin America and summer in Ukraine than vice versa, but timing is going to be a repeat due to me liking a few new penpals in Ukraine.
PS> For those of you guys scamming on these FSU girls to get laid, I'd recommend you try these Latin America countries and just be completely open. You'd be surprised that YOUR being preyed upon to get YOU into bed so they can have at least experienced it once in their young life. Speak English in a bar, and you'll see heads on all the girls turn to you real quick. Plus its 3x cheaper to do practically anything and apartment rent is $100 on the cheap and $800-$1200 a month for a luxury 2bedroom penthouse including hottub like I had. ;p
I like Colombia because not one person had anything bad to say about America. Far from it. They really do like Americans a lot. It's a shame we couldn't get the trade agreements to pass Congress.
Plus people in Colombia do business ethically for the most part, because if they don't they know they can end up getting killed. Unlike Ukraine, where the most they'll get is a bad reputation and all they do is change their business name and open up shop again. ;0
Sounds like your having fun in CR Beem. I might try San Andreas and Cartegena in Colombia next visit after I complete my business deals in Cali in Spring.
Apal, your friend maybe right about the 95% but that was probably a certain bar he was in. There is a large reputation here for prostitution because it is legal(actually it isn't illegal). I bet your friend didn't get out into town where the nice ones are. I think I was in that bar and you can't tell difference between girls. I don't mess with these girls, I am here to have fun and enjoy. I've seen many guys here for the 'girls', just not my style, if it was...would I be on computer writing here??? I would rather to go into shops and restaurants and talk with girls or even the female bartenders. As far as colombian liking americans......they do like their money and america likes their drugs..... I have a couple friends that ran into trouble......all over a girl coming to talk to them, muy peligroso in colombia.
1000% agree - There are some very bad places to be if your in Colombia.
You have to keep your wits about you all the time and you can't travel to the small towns in Colombia safely. It's not exactly a place you want to backpack or do the hostel thing through - you'll end up as a FARC prisoner soon enough if you travel on your own.
If your friends got into trouble, they were probably somewhere they shouldn't have been. If you go bar hopping, bring some locals and keep your wits about you, or better yet, stay out of the cheap bars.
If I want to date a girl, I'd just go in the shops and just ask if they're single (via a friendly translator).
The guys I usually end up hanging with realize I'm not naive or desperate. And any girl approaching me is usually going to have to be extremely sure in her game, because 99.99% of the time I'm not going to be interested. It keeps me out of trouble. I can only imagine how that's going to go over in Thailand or the Phillipines... I've never been but hear those girls (especially the working girls) are extremely aggressive if they see you and like your look.
I see Peru is really starting to become a marriage agency scene by all the ads spamming my inbox from AFA... Not many of those girls look like hookers at all, they look like good Catholic girls.
I don't know about comparing Ukraine girls to Colombian or Latino girls, it might be like comparing mock cream to real cream or comparing fire with brimstone..latina girls are known for the fiery temper and Ukraine girls known for there coldness and bitchiness maybe????
This is useless post..maybe its like comparing cheap brass darts to premium magnum darts..I can't be quiet about those darts, blame Robon for resurrecting them, I am just keeping the topic alive!
Aussie, well maybe this post is as useless as your posts!!!! Most men are looking for a women, what is wrong with looking in diferent parts of the world? I think it is intereesting to see how women differ because of their cultures. If this is so useless why even bother writing here...
Apal...the bar was classy, my friends were not bar hopping and they were with a couple locals who had to defend themselves. In CR, don't have to worry about such things and don't need to be with locals, actually it feels safer here than russia, ukraine or moldova.
Also...what do you do if girl is single??? Use your translator? I didn't think you were interested in girls who didn't speak english.
Do you like numbers Apal..lets see, according to your figures only you are interested in .01% of girls you meet and if my math is right, you need to meet 10,000 girls before you can be interested in only one. Thats a lot of girls, better get going or else you'll never meet that one girl you may be interested in.....and that doesn't even figure in whether she likes you...maybe go up to 20,000!!
Beemer, talking about security when I was in Semforopel we had come in on a bus and my friend first took her son to a nearby market and got him some snacks and a drink and then was putting him on a bus for Yevpretoria. I was standing alone with our luggage in the lot in front of the bus terminal. Two Policemen were busy checking papers of people in the lot. I thought of what you had said about getting checked at every corner in St Pete. One of the people they checked was not 10 feet from me but they never gave me a second glance.
Beem> yeah I'm really picky. Lets see out of the 10,000 girls on Anastasia I'd be interested in maybe 2-3... does that give you an indicator?
Classy bar in Colombia? That's even more rare in itself. ;p
I never met a hot-fiery tempered girl in Colombia. I usually encountered sad girls when I told them audios. Never had one even so much as yell at me even after I called it completely off.
But I have run into more than one of these cold, bitchy girls in Ukraine. ;p It's why I like Colombia... I look of Spanish decent (not Colombian) so that's why a sidewalk grab at a shopping mall was great if I needed a companion. I didn't expect to marry one - just go out and have fun.
I never had any run-in's with the police in either Colombia or Ukraine. I guess its because I keep a military style haircut that officers have. I just give them a respective nod. Although the TSA airport people are usually complete jerks. I have yet to go through one of their controlled airports without a full methodical search for some reason.
They circle Ukraine and Colombia in Red Ink on my tickets a lot of the time like I'm smuggling something... 100 kilos of cocaine from Colombia okay.. but wtf would anyone smuggle from Ukraine worth a jail sentence? ;p 100 kilos of Borsch?
Oh and yeah, I usually have my translator keep an eye out for the very prettiest girls. Their objective was to keep me paying them an hourly rate so I didn't call it an early night.
And computers do great at translating the important things in life. *wink* ;p I'd blush if Google ever kept a record of what it translated like they do on everyone's search words.
Apal...I was talking about you meeting 10,000 women...not looking at 10,000 profiles on Anastasia.
If you look at your post you are talking about 99.99% of time you would not be interested in women that approach you. So tell me, how close are you to meeting 10,000 women so you can find 1 that would interest you??? Maybe you want to adjust your statement...maybe you spoke wrong...maybe a decimal point in wrong place????
Machine translations are not very accurate, at times sentences will not make sense....I use them mainly to give me definintions of words I do not know.
I don't meet 10,000 women. I can be a player, but I got too big a heart for that. Although in Latin America its such a totally different world and everyone throws themselves in front of you... I could tell you stories you'd think were complete fiction, but I won't...
It is not like Ukraine. Girls are very closed off to strangers and trust is a harder to find commodity than I found in Latin America or here in the US.
I said out of 10,000 profiles, I might be interested in 2-3...
Just learn key phrases. I do a lot of smiling and pointing. what is frustrating is when you got a talker that won't shut up. I like the fact I don't speak someone's language A LOT! when I encounter that. If I got a problem, I just call up my translator who is actually hoping they get to translate something very intimate - but its usually something like I ran out of toilet paper or they need to go somewhere. ;p