Was that a rare bout of sarcasm, neddy?

Nope. I am quite serious.

okay... so... all anyone has to do is find a village girl, marry her, and they will magically be happy? That is your serious opinion?

No further questions. I rest my case before I've even made it.

@Haali
I think you're taking what Neddy said too simplistically. I'm sure he doesn't mean ALL village girls. Just like I don't mean ALL women in my post. I think you're just trying to inflame his post. I think that village girls tend to be great caregivers, less selfish, realistic about expectations, etc. Again age plays an important factor.

i think there are all sorts of women in china...as anywhere else.
there are gold diggers, sweet genuine girls, party girls. it depends what you are looking for.

also in my opinion i see many foreigners getting out of their ballpark...looking for a supermodel, rich girl, but smart and modest enough, and of course submissive enough. and if they can find one coz they come as rare as any whete else. then it must be the chinese girls fault.

i married a smart hot girl, who.doesn.t care about money. all of her friends are pretty and think similar. so they are out there. ...plenty!

if you don't take neddy's post literally...he is right.

if you are with a village "gold digger girl",a good life may just mean safety for her e.g food on the table. financial security maybe even covered hospital and kin.s health coverage. as opposed to spoiled city girls, high heels, prada bags and other luxury goods.

may be very stereotypical but i think rich means something different in a village than in downtown kunming.

that may or not be true but it's no guarantee of happiness. There have been threads in the past where people berate the uncivilised peasants from the countryside, and tales of woe of how wife's families have demanded money from foreign husbands etc.

@IFOUNDTHETUNA
Spot on on your post.
@Haali
Since when is being with someone guarantee to make you happy forever?
You can meet a woman and be happy for a year and then things turn sour. THAT'S PART OF LIFE! Things in relationship change over time, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst. There's no guarantees in life only death and taxes. Ha.Ha.

read my posts, I never said 'forever'.

Tell me again about that love that lasts forever, / How we'll ride the ups and downs all through the years. / And I won't think about my pain as I listen to you explain, /How that perfect love just up and disappears. / Oh later on when you're gone, and I can think again,

/ I'll sit down and I'll figure out what went wrong. / Well I expect to take my licks, but life plays dirty tricks, / I knew that I was sinking but I held on way too long.

[repeat chorus]