Asian American Romance: [asianamericanromance] Re: My criterion in hubby

Oh, Kwan! I just finished making my last post, before finding this post
in a new email, in my In box.

You're saying what I'm saying! Boys better catch the word!

--- In asianamericanromance@yahoogroups.com, "Khwan" <khwan@...> wrote:
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> --- In asianamericanromance@yahoogroups.com, Mike Kosak mwk_14059@
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> > SHE STARTED IT!Â Â Â
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> > Ok now that we have received a few more responses from her it is
starting to seem more like a cultural difference
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> > In this country expressing how much assets you demand of your
furutre husband is not going to go over very big.Â It makes you
sound like you have a price tag for your 'services' and we know what
that is called (prostitution)
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> I understand this point of view.
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> At same time-I understand her point of view. Men so many times look to
Asia for girlfriends and wives because they not can find same in their
country.
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> They have big long list of what they want:
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> Young. Pretty. Work hard like maid to take care of house.
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> Give husband children or take care of children husband have.
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> And these lists come from older men who are overweight and not
attractive or not have good jobs. These men not can find sexy young
girls in USA that want to date them. So they think that they can find
that in Asia.
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> So if men have list of what they want-what is wrong with women have
same list?
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> > And I wonder if you understand the value of $2million USD- it is
less than 1% of the population that has that kind of money (that would
be considered very very rich)
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> That is still 3,000,000 people. So it not impossible to find.
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> And again. I go back to what I say before. Why is this bad when men
have long list of what they want in Asia girl-a list that they could
never find in the USA?
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> > One potential girl friend I met told me her family expected me to
pay them $1million USD for marriage to her.Â I had to explain to
them that it was the same as 40million tb - when they really only meant
$5,000 usd (but hiked it up higher, because they think all americans are
rich)
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> Are not all American's rich?
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> Or I should say most much more rich than Thai families.
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> > But people in USA RARELY talk in terms of millions of USD. That is
still one hell of a lot of money
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> > For example- a nice house can be purchased for $100,000.castle (like
the one I own) can be purchased for $450,000.
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> In Los Angeles it almost impossible to find little house in not great
neighborhood for less than $450,000.
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> I think for $100,000 you can lease a nice parking space.
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> > Some areas of the country had homes approcahcing 700K to $1million
but those over-inflated price days are long gone- wiped out in the real
estate crash last year.
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> Again. Not in California.
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> KHWAN
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