I now see your reasons for paying for Russian lessons.
I do not see the relationship between Ecuador or Ukraine to choose one or the other :-)
Not that you need dance lessons to emigrate to Ukraine, maybe to pick up a girl yes, but the real fun about them is going WITH the girl(s) to the dance lessons. I have done it and it is a great way to develop a relationship. Usually the type of dance I find in common with the ladies from anywhere is Latin dance: Salsa or if you are good: Tango.
Ballroom dance: I am afraid young girls will identify it with 'oldies'.
I guess you are serious about 'marrying' into the Ukraine.
WS: "Not that you need dance lessons to emigrate to Ukraine,"
Correct, I pay $300/week here in the US for professional dance instruction. Two 45 minute private lessons plus some group lessons.
In Ukraine, it is a fraction of that cost. I have reasons to dance that go well beyond picking up women.
Further, if I do decide on Ukraine, I will most likely meet women in the dance scene and not on fiance. {as you point out}
WS: [I now see your reasons for paying for Russian lessons.]
Plus, I am fully employed in a good job that leaves me only a little time to pursue outside activities.
WS: [I guess you are serious about 'marrying' into the Ukraine.]
Serious about studying the option. I find Asian women very attractive as well.
I've been to Asia already. Will check out FSU.
WS: Re; Ecuador, when I was married, we looked to expatriate to Ecuador.
Tomz: "btb754 did you actually meet any of the "lovely twenty somethings" that were 'writing' you?"
You misunderstand. Trip to Nikolaev is in a couple of weeks.
"or was it just a setup to get at your money? "
I suspect you are correct. They are somehow paid to get men into fiance chat.
Mysteriously, non of these girls have Skype.
There may also be an incentive to keep men engaged on the site with emails even though they are free for me.
So far, none of the girls writing to me has given me the code.
I want to get a couple of them face to face so I can understand the big picture.
LR - right you are. Prices are very cheap in Ukraine right now.
Earlier in the year I rented a luxury apartment in Kiev for dirt cheap. While I was staying in the apartment the owner complained to me that I was paying too little. I booked the apartment through Booking.com - the best site in my view for booking hotels and apartments. (The owner had set the price on Booking.com themselves)
Same thing with restaurants. I'm talking mid-range restaurants not the ultra expensive ones.
"So far, none of the girls writing to me has given me the code." They might be under contract not to divulge how it all operates.
I have several women who suddenly got their profile removed in short notice. Nothing unusual in the correspondence. Maybe someone filed a complaint or the agency removed the profile or the lady herself decided to drop out?
I get a lot of initial letters from the same profile multiple times. It seems automated or it must be a really desperate lady who just will not give up (how many of those are there really?).
Only one small piece of criticism: You are talking about Asia, Ukraine and Ecuador. I say that looking for a wife in a particular part of the world should be led by a specific interest or cultural link with that place. I think that this link or interest will be very useful in developing a relationship. For instance, in my case I have very specific cultural, blood and knowledge reasons for wanting a Ukrainian lady. It would not occur to me to seek a Thai wife just because I find Asian girls so cute; I have no cultural interest or blood links of even business links with that country.
The cultural intrest is sometimes reciprocated (ladies that list specific countries where they wan the man to be from, in their profiles), sometimes not; this can be a little problem that can stay in the relationship for good. I know from experience. Of course, the difference is that the ladies normally go to live in the man's country so they will be able to immerse themselves in the culture and learn it with time.
"why do you need dance lessons to emigrate to Ukraine?"
I don't.
Dance lessons are a nice benefit. I want to be a good ballroom dancer.
I can get what I pay $300/week in USA for $40/week in Ukraine.
For me it is more fun than working out with a personal trainer.
So apart from your memory loss about staying out of my business you do not have the cojones to write your rubbish here but you keep sending me your private messages, right?
ws:can't really argue with your point. In the Army I lived on the economy in Germany and Korea. So while the Army provides a nice support system, I was still very comfortable. I spent a month in Peru in the 90s and am on the board of a 503c doing work there. I know people in Ecuador. It is more functional than Peru.
I have been an Eastern Front WWII fanatic for 40 years. In the 80s I read everything Solzhenitzen had written that had been translated. The Leningrad to Astrakhan river cruise has long been on my bucket list.
My first girlfriend was Japanese American, my parents were married in Japan and I had a Japanese aunt.
There are a lot of expat destinations I have not mentioned.
Ignorance by Western men, of the FSU, is a problem for themselves, the ladies and even other men the ladies meet after these ignorant men.
There are men who drool over the pictures of the glamorous Ukrainian ladies in the dating sites and go for them when some men could not even place Ukraine on the map. Their next mistake is their belief that model looking girls are going to fall at their feet because they are Western men in shiny armour coming to rescue them from their country. Some men completely let themselves go and they still think that an FSU lady who regularly goes to the gym, keeps a balanced diet, drinks little or nothing at all and takes care of her appearance will find them appealing. I am currently feeling guilty about not having been to the gym for several months due to lack of time.
I'm in Asia because I wanted to develop a business and live beside a tropical beach and where better to do it than in a country of some 7,000+ islands?
One just needs to shake a tree here and a dozen available girls fall out of it ... I'm not in to that.
All these white women that, of a holiday, want to sunbathe all day, every day, boring the sh1t out of us men during the process, so they may become the colour of Asian women ...
Save oneself the trouble and grief and jump on a plane to Asia, the women here want to be white and stay out of the sun at all costs :)