To those who think dating abroad is for losers (eloquent)

[Winston]

http://www.happierabroad.com/alternative.php

To those who consider me and others who date abroad to be losers, my cultural consultant has this to say to you:

"To those who consider us losers, here is our answer:

We have discovered that love and sex are commodities as any others and they both obey market trends and the laws of supply and demand. We treat male and female attractiveness only in marketing ways, as well.

In other words we export the attractiveness of the American male to global markets rather than depending on the domestic markets alone. If that is being a loser, than any export company that tries to find better markets for its products is a loser, too.

Global marketing is a respectable trend and international trade is a quadrillion dollar a year business. Can you imagine someone writing an email to a large global company with billions in sale around the world and saying something like this:

You loser, what's wrong with a good old American market? Why can't you find an American customer.

Worse yet: Hey what's wrong with American investors? Why sell out treasury bills to the Chinese and Saudis?

As it happens, an American Citizen man ( of any race, age and looks) is in greater demand in many countries than he is at home where he is surplus merchandise. So, we are here to market ourselves on the global scale."

[The_Adventurer]

I would add to that there's this mistaken assumption that there is something we want in the domestic market. I seek love and sex abroad because the type of women I am attracted to and want to be with do not exist in America.

Looking at the export business comparison and the question, "You loser, what's wrong with a good old American market? Why can't you find an American customer?", it makes perfect sense, especially when I think about my work. My work is also created for and aimed at the Asian market, because the market I am looking for does not exist in America. If it did, I would market to it and make the sales I desire. It doesn't. Yet I find it very easy to market in Japan and make the sales I desire.

[ladislav]

I would add to that there's this mistaken assumption that there is something we want in the domestic market. I seek love and sex abroad because the type of women I am attracted to and want to be with do not exist in America.

As an internationally minded member of this forum, exactly! However, most Americans are not globalists as well as most people anywhere are not. Most peopl want to live where they were born or grew up, find someone there and start a family there. Overseas ventures like that are seen as weird and wacky by lots of people.

Looking at the export business comparison and the question, "You loser, what's wrong with a good old American market? Why can't you find an American customer?", it makes perfect sense, especially when I think about my work. My work is also created for and aimed at the Asian market, because the market I am looking for does not exist in America. If it did, I would market to it and make the sales I desire. It doesn't. Yet I find it very easy to market in Japan and make the sales I desire.

Yup. I am now working on/in/with the Al-Yamama project, possibly the largest international defense contract EVER between the British Aerospace and Saudi Arabia. The amount of money in question is astronomical!. British defense people get government contracts, sure, but nothing like training the Saudi military.
Many people are getting filthy rich with this project.

[Winston]

I would add to that there's this mistaken assumption that there is something we want in the domestic market. I seek love and sex abroad because the type of women I am attracted to and want to be with do not exist in America.

Looking at the export business comparison and the question, "You loser, what's wrong with a good old American market? Why can't you find an American customer?", it makes perfect sense, especially when I think about my work. My work is also created for and aimed at the Asian market, because the market I am looking for does not exist in America. If it did, I would market to it and make the sales I desire. It doesn't. Yet I find it very easy to market in Japan and make the sales I desire.

W: Wow welcome back Terrence! How have you been? Can you give us any trip reports and updates?