Originally posted by: eleison
Wow, looks like you done it all. Right now, just starting to look at all my options. Most of my friends are married/getting married. I'm 31 (but people tell me I look arround early 20's)...
So far dating in REAL LIFE is kinda annoying. Maybe its because I'm dating women who are in their early 20's; I usually don't like to date girls my age - imho, even though they are not as cute as they use to be, they expect alot... if the girls are going to be a challenge and demanding, minus well chase the younger ones.. hehehehe..
I'll probably be in SE asia again this winter. If I do find someone interesting, it might be fun to meet them in REAL LIFE... never done that before.
Well, I've done a decent amount of online dating as I'm not a huge fan of most scenes and I don't really have any hobbies that bring me out to places where I can meet people. So looking around online was probably my best option. I still think that as long as online dating hopefuls are truthful, it can be a great system, but you get things that I mentioned before... such as horrible pictures, old pictures (i.e. when they were skinny, etc), Nigerian scammers (met a couple of these so far, I like playing with them ).
A lot of these people also seem to be damaged goods. They've been treated like crap by some if not all of their exes, they don't live a great life or they're poor. No offense to people who don't make a lot (I'm not rich or anything and I grew up in a relatively poor family), but I find a lot of them that are on here really just want people for security and they find love in security. Like there's this one girl who keeps trying to date me, and I simply won't do it. She's a good example of the type I mentioned above... not rich (I make more in a week than her parents make in a month) and literally told me, "you have a car, a job and a place... you're established" and later spouted off crap about wanting to marry me. Well, that's where I draw the proverbial line!
It makes me understand why that one guy created that dating service only for "hot" people.
It's also kind of annoying when you run into people who cannot drive for whatever reason. The girl I mentioned above told me it's too expensive to get a license . I am not a chauffeur and refuse to be someone's personal roaming enjoyment service.
I know a couple girls from various Asian countries that I've met mostly in my scanlating and fansubbing days. They're very nice to talk to and quite respectable. That's more of the type of person I'd be looking for.