Emile comments on Optimizing for attractiveness - Less Wrong
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I suggest moving to a place where you-as-you-are will be more attractive to females. More specifically, China - it has a combination of features that make expats quite successful with the local women (or at least stack the deck in your favor):
It seems that a disproportionate amount of married nerds I met in real life have asian wives, and there's probably some interesting explanation, though I don't know which one.
I've wondered how much of this could just be socio-economic status matching: whites and east Asians in the USA are probably the two wealthiest and best-educated groups at this point.
That doesn't fit my observations much: here in France, East Asians are a quite small slice of the wealthy-and-educated, first because there's not that many of them, and second because the older generation's ideal for their children is more "take over the family business" rather than "get a prestigious diploma" (this is changing though).
I've considered this too, but I'm turned off by the pollution. Do you know of any reasonably big city in China that is cleaner?
Dalian and Harbin are not very polluted. And they are in the North of China, so the food is normal.