Since TAM has participants from around the globe, and some appear well-traveled and know destinations as more than tourists...
All other things being equal (environment, infrastructure, safety), which major cities have you lived in or at least know well to advise a young man (say, 25-35, stable job but no windfall, average looks) to live in? I found that major cities in Central/Eastern Europe were like fishing with dynamite, due to the ratio of middle-class men to attractive young women (in the Northern European sense). Even as most economies prospered, you can still see numerous couples in which the woman you'd expect to see as trophy wife in a country club in some parts of the US (or the equivalent of country clubs in Western Europe). Flying directly between such destinations is an adjustment: here you're flirting with a supermodel-looking cashier, nine hours later you won't see an attractive woman for days (and good luck talking to her when you do). There seems to be a simple supply-and-demand equation at work: the proportion of attractive girls being born vs. proportion of men doing OK econom ically.
I'd leave out obvious scientific/tech/policy hubs that over-concentrate a profession or over-concentrate young people with advanced degrees.
So, what's your best/worst city/region?
[Yes, this thread was born out of a thought in one of the "why aren't people marrying" threads. Some people appeared to apply across-the-board measurements of alphaness without regard for regional variation.]
All other things being equal (environment, infrastructure, safety), which major cities have you lived in or at least know well to advise a young man (say, 25-35, stable job but no windfall, average looks) to live in? I found that major cities in Central/Eastern Europe were like fishing with dynamite, due to the ratio of middle-class men to attractive young women (in the Northern European sense). Even as most economies prospered, you can still see numerous couples in which the woman you'd expect to see as trophy wife in a country club in some parts of the US (or the equivalent of country clubs in Western Europe). Flying directly between such destinations is an adjustment: here you're flirting with a supermodel-looking cashier, nine hours later you won't see an attractive woman for days (and good luck talking to her when you do). There seems to be a simple supply-and-demand equation at work: the proportion of attractive girls being born vs. proportion of men doing OK econom ically.
I'd leave out obvious scientific/tech/policy hubs that over-concentrate a profession or over-concentrate young people with advanced degrees.
So, what's your best/worst city/region?
[Yes, this thread was born out of a thought in one of the "why aren't people marrying" threads. Some people appeared to apply across-the-board measurements of alphaness without regard for regional variation.]
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