ShanghaiTEFLer 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: gwern 28 October 2012 05:01:30PM 4 points [-]

Expat men prefer dating local women, but expat women practically never date local men

Is there any hard evidence on this, or is it just the usual scuttlebutt?

Comment author: ShanghaiTEFLer 30 October 2012 05:59:29AM 3 points [-]

I know three guys married to Chinese girls and one in a long term relationship. In more than six months in Shanghai I can recall seeing only one obvious couple where it was a Chinese (looking) guy and a Western girl. Some women understandably get bitter here. Stepping off the plane is like aging ten years and gaining twenty pounds.