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Scott,
Sorry you took offence with my comment. I am merely stating a fact how the economics of life works. For good or bad, its not for me to judge, but to close your eye to it is either denial or ignorance. Its not merely Ticas that I indicate with the comment, but practically global from eastern Europe to Russia up to Asia. Do we not have mail-order brides/dating tours/meet-women trips from these countries?
Its just a fact of life. I’m not saying every woman would be chasing Americans, but there are quite a few that would. And truly its not just Americans, but also Canadians/Australians/Japanese/etc. What’s their common denominator, but what else except better economic standing.
As the English say you’re a bit cheeky this morning! No the part about working a few months in the states and then living a few months in CR! 🙂
Why else would a 20 year old woman marry a 70 year old geezer with a social security pension???? There is now legislation prohibiting mail-order brides or even Americans contacting foreign women without first being vetted by every governmental agency. Seems the feminists are trying to legislate who finds love where.
Hmmm I don’t belive that!,
An example is my wife! My wife worked for IICA as a economist, made good money for Ticos wages and had many great opertunitiess to work for the UN!
This is where you don’t understand! Costa Rica is not like most other countries in the way that women are highly educated! My wifes friends that are all highly educated women worked or are still working in the CR fed system, news papers and one of her closest is working for the UN. Most Ticas don’t go gringo shopping like you would think! This is a typical Gringa response to think that it is all about economics. Like my wife says a gringa thinks different than the normal latin women and this shows!
My wife will be done this June with her Phd in Economics at the University of Minnesota! When she is done she will be able to go back to CR and work for IICA with a higher pay. Since we are having our first child and we want to be closer to her family we will be moving back. She also dosent have citizenship in the U.S. and she dosent want to! My wife also came from a really poor family when she was younger and she never once thought about dating a gringo! None of her relatives date gringos! I am the only gingo in their family!
If your facts were correct I would belive that there would be more gringos married or dating Ticas in her family! How ever this is not true!
This is because the femiist North American women is feeling threatend. There is a growing number of men in the States that don’t want to be married to the feminist gringas and they are looking out side of the boarders for women that don’t have the same hang ups. The only way to combat this is for gringas to create laws to prevent men from mail order brides.
This was on the news and many talk shows a year ago!
Not to be play the devils advocate…but there seems to be some market for Gringo/Tica marriage that may not be based soley on “Love”. I think I saw the site mytica.com advertised here or somewhere..? But I agree with you Scott that based on my experience in CR most Ticas are not out hunting down gringos with a pension. I have seen this in the Jaco area but to a very very limited degree, but this is just a guess. I have no statistics to prove or verify any of this. A lot of the Ticas I know in Jaco/Hermosa seem wary of the Gringo/Surfer knowing they these guys are on vacation and are not(the Ticas) looking for a one week fling. Anyway this marrying “up” thing goes on everywhere including the US…how many woman want to land a “Doctor” etc..I guess guys do it as well.
So, if Hugh Hefner were living in a double-wide in Louisiana, he would STILL have those three blonde babes as live-in girlfriends? Is it his effervescent personality that lured them in, or his gazillion-dollar bank account and a mansion? I didn’t specifically mention Ticas as examples, but if you think women don’t marry wealthy men (by whatever standard you measure wealth in a particular culture)for an economic advantage, you are deluding yourself. But since you mentioned Ticas, I do happen to know a couple of very old goats who married very young Ticas and who now have children under the age of 5 (must’ve been the Viagra). Now THAT’S a retirement plan!
Well, I always want to make friends rather than enemies. Probably my impression was wrong from what I’ve heard some people say. I am glad to hear your wife getting her Phd from UM, that’s also my brother’s alma mater.
Lighten up on the gringos, I would think most are not out to take advantage of CR. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Congrats to your wife.
Well this is where most gringos dont understand the culture of ticos.
My brother in-laws all have girl friends or wifes that are much younger than them. One of my brother in-laws is dating a 19 year old and he is 32!When I started dating my wife, her father and mother were happy to find out that I was nine years older than her (I was 35 and she was 26)and that I was divorced once. The idea of some one that has been around the relationship block was great for them and that is what they wanted for their daughter. They also were very surprised that I was a gringo because my wife always told them that she was not interested in the U.S.
Most Ticas would perfer older men for the simple reason that they belive older men are grown up. This is why you see man old ticos with much younger ticas!
19 to 32 is not that big a deal, nor is 35 to 26, but 70 to 22 is a BIG difference, especially when the 70 year old is a delapidated gringo! It just makes me wonder if the life expectancy of the older person was a consideration! LOL
My girlfriend is 13 years younger..but as you can see from my photo I’m well preserved! LOL..I’m 43. I was so happy when she turned 30!
I know that feeling of elation — I had it too when my 20 year old boyfriend turned 21 and I was 30! HAHAHA Women can rob the cradle, too, you know!
Well this is another funny thing,
My father in-law, a good tico, was caught with a 18 year old nica when he was 70. Today my wife laughs about it but at the time it took him a while before he was out of the dog house!
Has this page gone off-topic, or WHAT? I must admit, however, that I like the new topic better than the original. I’m a 49 year-old Gringo who is moving to Escazu in August. I’m just hoping to find an attractive, early 40’s Tica who will appreciate the fact that I earn a living, treat her respectfully, won’t hit her and won’t sleep around on her. U.S. society (especially in large, urban areas) has become a ridiculous social puzzle in which to try to participate. In some ways it’s like high school… The good looking women gravitate to the successful, attractive men. The rest of the women get fat and angry, and are usually in denial about both. ALL the men gravitate to the good looking women. It’s just an evening variation of the daily rat race. Let me outta here!
(OK… I’ll sit patiently awaiting the beating I’m bound to take now that I have written what all of us mature singles know.)
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