army1987 comments on Economy gossip open thread - Less Wrong

22 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 October 2012 04:10AM

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 28 October 2012 03:27:56PM *  7 points [-]

Don't rule out marrying for money. (You can marry for love too, because there's plenty of rich people to fall in love with.)

For women looking for rich men, San Fransisco is the place. There are 12,000 more young straight men in SF than equivalent women, and that doesn't include Silicon Valley. Since you're reading Less Wrong, you're probably nerdy enough to pick up a socially awkward, but fiscally successful software developer.

For men looking for rich women, New York City is the best. If you're young and childless, you can enjoy dating women who earn 17% more than you and don't mind splitting the check. Because there are more college educated women than men in NYC, pairing with a career woman should be relatively easy.

If you're really ambitious, go to Hong Kong, Shanghai or Singapore. Expat women will move to these cities to advance their career, but often find it difficult to get a man. (Expat men prefer dating local women, but expat women practically never date local men) I've heard at least two reports of women resorting to traditionally male strategies, like buying drinks or counting the number of approaches they do.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 October 2012 07:35:15PM 9 points [-]

I guess the choice of whom to share my life with is going to affect my eudaimonia to a much greater extent than my household income (at least so long as the latter is larger than the bottom quartile for a first world country), so I'd be a little reluctant to trade off the former for the latter.