Chișinău

[Trenchcoat]

Anyway, update from me, the Russian language learning is going ok. I'm eager to get as much practice in before Chișinău as possible. There I've noticed that most Moldovans seem to know Russian in addition to those from Transnistria. On top of that will be any Ukrainians and possibly the odd few Russians. My outlook is that any one of those could turn up but not all of them may know English all that well. Hence if I can learn basic Russian to a basic conversation level by that time it could help immensely. So for me putting a fair bit of time into learning Russian better between them an now is the way forward I think for me.

[Steven1971]

82% of people in Moldova speak Romanian.

[ML]

82% of people in Moldova speak Romanian.

But the follow-up is:  How many of the people in Moldova are also conversant in Russian ?

[Trenchcoat]

But the follow-up is:  How many of the people in Moldova are also conversant in Russian ?

[Patagonie]

I went to Chisinau twice and spend a total time of more than two weeks.You could easily retrieve a teacher to learn Russian, you have to search for the local ad on internet and use google translator.

[krimster2]

I've only been once, and was with my wife and father-in-law who spoke native Moldovan, I drove only on the long straight parts of the highway, and let my F-I-L drive inside the city...
he was born there, and knew his way around!

a large percentage of Kitchenev College educated women in their 20s/30s will speak (some)English in Kitchenev....

with a latin origin, I suspect you Europeans are gonna find Romanian far easier to read and speak than Russki...
and...
if you liked Moldova, yur gonna LOVE Romania
especially Buchaest
PS
don't drink that sweet wine of theirs "Sweeka" it's AWFUL!! YUK!!

Trench's biggest problem in Moldova, is that he doesn't know how to drive on the RIGHT side of the road!!!
cuz if he did, he could rent a high end car
and cruise for chicks
all you do is offer a girl you see walking a lift!!!
so you just drive around places where you see a lotta women out walking....
look for a pretty one, and pull up next to her and roll down your window
WORKS EVERY FREAKING TIME!!

but NO, Trench drives ONLY on the LEFT...

see, back in the old days, you English and French realized the advantage that a man on a horse had over a man on foot
being "mounted" gives you a BIG advantage 

and THIS is what YOU NEED Trench
to offset your disadvantage(s)
EVERYTHING is about achieving an equilibrium

instead of having to try and PUSH against the resistance you face in your efforts to seek Pooty-Tang
try to offset the negatives with positives that you CREATE!!!

a car is a simple tool to create a "positive amplifier" that helps you attract women
it separates you from the LOWER men!

so is a boat!!!!
so is a swimming pool!!!

the joy of drying off your 18 yr old neighbor's daughter with long blond hair after catching her skinny dipping in the pool when she saw my wife and kids drive away to go shopping is beyond compare.  I'd make her a strawberry dauquarri, and dry her off with a white terry cloth towel

[Trenchcoat]

I've only been once, and was with my wife and father-in-law who spoke native Moldovan, I drove only on the long straight parts of the highway, and let my F-I-L drive inside the city...
he was born there, and knew his way around!

a large percentage of Kitchenev College educated women in their 20s/30s will speak (some)English in Kitchenev....

with a latin origin, I suspect you Europeans are gonna find Romanian far easier to read and speak than Russki...
and...
if you liked Moldova, yur gonna LOVE Romania
especially Buchaest
PS
don't drink that sweet wine of theirs "Sweeka" it's AWFUL!! YUK!!

Trench's biggest problem in Moldova, is that he doesn't know how to drive on the RIGHT side of the road!!!
cuz if he did, he could rent a high end car
and cruise for chicks
all you do is offer a girl you see walking a lift!!!
so you just drive around places where you see a lotta women out walking....
look for a pretty one, and pull up next to her and roll down your window
WORKS EVERY FREAKING TIME!!

but NO, Trench drives ONLY on the LEFT...

see, back in the old days, you English and French realized the advantage that a man on a horse had over a man on foot
being "mounted" gives you a BIG advantage 

and THIS is what YOU NEED Trench
to offset your disadvantage(s)
EVERYTHING is about achieving an equilibrium

instead of having to try and PUSH against the resistance you face in your efforts to seek Pooty-Tang
try to offset the negatives with positives that you CREATE!!!

a car is a simple tool to create a "positive amplifier" that helps you attract women
it separates you from the LOWER men!

so is a boat!!!!
so is a swimming pool!!!

the joy of drying off your 18 yr old neighbor's daughter with long blond hair after catching her skinny dipping in the pool when she saw my wife and kids drive away to go shopping is beyond compare.  I'd make her a strawberry dauquarri, and dry her off with a white terry cloth towel

For sure I realised that a little while ago, essentially a knight in shining armour with a beautiful white stallion is the equivalent these days of a guy with an Armani suit & a Merc convertible, or similar. The armour being a modern day suit and the stallion being a modern day car.

Sadly my car here in the UK is no convertible and is based on being 'economical'. I realised that it's doing me no favours but have been stuck with the situation while other matters take precedence, the house, etc. Now that the house is near complete I could get better but that would be putting a lot of money in where the return is not so great in the UK in terms of women.

I've hired a convertible before in LA it was great fun and look good. I think one chick noticed but wrong place, wrong time sort of thing. I've heard of guys in the UK who put all there money into a flash car and will get one at whatever cost, bad finance deals, etc as they know it will get them a woman. Otherwise they won't get a woman and for them no point going to work anyway, so that's where all their money goes.

Learning Romanian to roughly the same level as Russian apparently takes half the time (600 hrs compared to 1200 hrs). Plus the Latin alphabet so easier. I looked into it and learnt a few words but then decided that it was dividing my time with learning Russian too much and having to retain new words from two languages also not ideal. Hence I decided to stick with Russian, I could have gone all out on just learning Romanian but then it would only largely be useful in Romania & Moldova. So for me that narrowed down the search area too much to justify the hours input. I decided I would rather put those hours input into learning Russian. Romania is a EU country also so a bit of a negative there. Many stayed in the UK and registered to stay after we left the EU so probably too early days for much desire for other to want in who now can't I'm guessing.

[krimster2]

you should research where in kishinev the Ukrainian wimmin refugees are going...
for example, in Odessa, they'd all be in a place called "moldovanka"

I'm guessing that in Kishinev the Riscani and Botanica districts probably have the most "working class" women and professional women
a lot of big apartment dormitories for workers
average woman working there gets a salary of maybe $$400/month

peak traffic hours for meeting women who are walking on major streets are work times and shopping times
best results are WHEN you figure WHERE AND WHEN most of the women shop
and you make it a point to be there THEN...

my favorite experience of stalking women who were shopping was in Kyiv
at the big outdoor market...
go on a saturday, and watch beautiful women take off their dresses and try on new dresses
in these little makeshift changing areas that usually have a big gap in the corner and this is where you position yourself "casually"
DAMN...
long legged graceful women standing in their underware...
and then...
five minutes later...
ANOTHER WOULD COME ALONG!!!

if the woman leaves empty handed
that's where you can step in
I've taken girl's like this
and "hired them as my assistant"
you could pay them $500 to $1000 per month
and give them a clothing allowance
which you spend taking them shopping
likely in Istanbul...

it is during this trip that you turn up the "intimacy dial"
for example,
you go into changing booth with her
even for bikini!!!

you stay in the same hotel room

when you take a shower, you "forget" your clothes on the bed
so after you dry off,
you come out of the bathroom naked and non-chalantly take the clothes off your bed and get dressed

if you're smart, you can DO THIS FOR REAL!!!
and not only have A MONEY MAKING BUSINESS
how can you lose, when you hire someone for $1000 per month
but you YOU CAN COMBINE IT with BJ priviliges!!!
AND...
the girl will think she's getting a pretty good deal, and is unlikely to screw it up

don't you incels see how you're just wasting your life??
you seed spillin fools!!!
tssssk!!! tssssk!!

[ML]

Romanian women are not looking to leave in the same way that Ukrainian and Russian women are.  So not an efficient way to spend your time.

We have become good friends here with a young Romanian couple.
She is a 'hot' former flight attendant (actually still employed, but on extended leave it seems).
Attended their local wedding here.  Then they went back to Romania over the summer for the 'big' wedding with family.

[krimster2]

it depends...
I've been to Prague and to Budapest, both places with REALLY GORGEOUS women
and which also have a  higher standard of living than Romania
it depends more on the "dewd in question"
his age, looks, dress, net worth, social staus, etc. than the women
I speak English and German and could communicate with about half the women I met in those countries, some of who were just AMAZINGLY beautiful, almost perfect!!!
Huge diversity

hungary had this unusual skin tone that only some of the women had
like a dark tan
with high cheeck bones, green eyes, flawless skin
very "athletic" body

Czech women were lighter skinned, more blondes, but also GORGEOUS and most were German and/or English Sprechen
when I was young, I owned my little 3 bedroom house in silicon valley
never, ever had ANY problems getting a foreign woman to live with me
and coulda had MY PICK of Asian women
who wouldn't believe their good fortune of landing a white guy "in the valley"
but trying to find an asian girl with decent tits in the valley was a search that never yielded anything, they were all as flat as Kansas

Shang Hai was a different story, but these agressive asian women made me paranoid
when they realized they were having that effect on me, then they gave me alchhol and a neck massage
one showed me her photo album on her phone, which started out with normal photos
but then switched to photos of her in her underware
and then out of her underware

then she asked me "Do you want a release?"
I had NO IDEA what she meant, I thought she said"rice"
so I said "YES"
OH! MY GAWD!!!!!!

[Trenchcoat]

my favorite experience of stalking women who were shopping was in Kyiv
at the big outdoor market...
go on a saturday, and watch beautiful women take off their dresses and try on new dresses
in these little makeshift changing areas that usually have a big gap in the corner and this is where you position yourself "casually"
DAMN...
long legged graceful women standing in their underware...
and then...
five minutes later...
ANOTHER WOULD COME ALONG!!!

I know what you mean Krim, when I was with Kherson girl in Kyiv I went to one of these big indoor markets it had the sort of makeshift curtain changing areas for stalls inside that you speak of. It was a little way out of the city centre by taxi must have been on a weekday as it was pretty quiet. Wasn't there to Peter Purve as it would have not gone well with Kherson girl lol and in any case no women there of note at the time.

On this trip it will likely be more direct dates as won't have the time or money for anything more elaborate, worth keeping in mind for the future though

[Trenchcoat]

Romanian women are not looking to leave in the same way that Ukrainian and Russian women are.  So not an efficient way to spend your time.

We have become good friends here with a young Romanian couple.
She is a 'hot' former flight attendant (actually still employed, but on extended leave it seems).
Attended their local wedding here.  Then they went back to Romania over the summer for the 'big' wedding with family.

Generally true, since Romania joined the EU we had loads come here so any that wanted out got out. That said Romania is still one of the less wealthy EU states and a western guy could look a good proposition over there depending on if the girl digged him. I agree though Western status alone is unlikely to have the same effect as for Moldovan, Ukrainian, Russian, etc women. Hence why I chose not to put my efforts into learning Romanian.

[krimster2]

"Peter Purve"

OTOH, your "Purving" opportunities in Ukraine/Moldova will be 10 TIMES at least what it is in your own country, and as long as you stay with certain boundries ZERO CONSEQUENCE!!!

For example,
here's a photo of my neighbor's 18 yr old grand daughter when I was building the Rancho Del Krimster in Crimea who lived with her grandparents next door to me

after I built it, and made an in-ground concrete pool in the back, she waited  until she thought we were all gone and came over for a quick skinny dip in the pool
but it was just my wife and daughters who left to go shopping and NOT me who stayed home and worked!

I heard and then saw her in the pool, but intead of being angry and confrontational
I brought her a straw berry marguerrita and a fluffy white towel

when she was coming out of the pool, I advised her to be careful of the slippery tile around the pool, and she let me dry her off vigorously with the terry cloth towel and waited awhile before getting dressed and finishing her drink...

and this went on all summer...

you see what I'm sayin...

same in Costa Rica
local naked teenagers (all 18+ of course!) of both genders would invite themselves to late night pool parties at the pool about 50 yards from the main house
if my family isn't there with me, then I can always choose that particular time for a nude night swim
and instead of being confrontational with trespassers
can be warm and welcoming
and AGAIN
no consequences for anything that goes on there...
mi casa is mi casa

if you are SMART, you can go live in a foreign country and have a LOT MORE sexual freedom and a LOT LESS paranoia than in the USA
the one thing I NEVER, NEVER worried about when I've been outside the USA for an extended period was the availability of Pooty Tang...

in asia and central America, you can exploit the "white boy fetish"
or as I prefer, let IT EXPLOIT YOU!!

a young asian dominatrix with BIG TITS is HOT!!!!
fair smooth ivory skin with taunt muscles
YOU want to be WAXED down there, and hopefully fully circumsized
and WATCH her REACTION when she checks out YOUR white boy junk! 

in costa rica, I have "Patron Privilige"
the local girls who I hire sometimes to work with me, can use the outdoor shower and ONLY THEN the pool
and the shower has no cover, and the girls no bathing suit...
a buch of sweet young tanned girls playing naked in the pool...
I could never do this in the USA
but no problem in costa rica

[Trenchcoat]

"Peter Purve"

OTOH, your "Purving" opportunities in Ukraine/Moldova will be 10 TIMES at least what it is in your own country, and as long as you stay with certain boundries ZERO CONSEQUENCE!!!

For example,
here's a photo of my neighbor's 18 yr old grand daughter when I was building the Rancho Del Krimster in Crimea who lived with her grandparents next door to me

after I built it, and made an in-ground concrete pool in the back, she waited  until she thought we were all gone and came over for a quick skinny dip in the pool
but it was just my wife and daughters who left to go shopping and NOT me who stayed home and worked!

I heard and then saw her in the pool, but intead of being angry and confrontational
I brought her a straw berry marguerrita and a fluffy white towel

when she was coming out of the pool, I advised her to be careful of the slippery tile around the pool, and she let me dry her off vigorously with the terry cloth towel and waited awhile before getting dressed and finishing her drink...

and this went on all summer...

you see what I'm sayin...

same in Costa Rica
local naked teenagers (all 18+ of course!) of both genders would invite themselves to late night pool parties at the pool about 50 yards from the main house
if my family isn't there with me, then I can always choose that particular time for a nude night swim
and instead of being confrontational with trespassers
can be warm and welcoming
and AGAIN
no consequences for anything that goes on there...
mi casa is mi casa

if you are SMART, you can go live in a foreign country and have a LOT MORE sexual freedom and a LOT LESS paranoia than in the USA
the one thing I NEVER, NEVER worried about when I've been outside the USA for an extended period was the availability of Pooty Tang...

in asia and central America, you can exploit the "white boy fetish"
or as I prefer, let IT EXPLOIT YOU!!

a young asian dominatrix with BIG TITS is HOT!!!!
fair smooth ivory skin with taunt muscles
YOU want to be WAXED down there, and hopefully fully circumsized
and WATCH her REACTION when she checks out YOUR white boy junk! 

in costa rica, I have "Patron Privilige"
the local girls who I hire sometimes to work with me, can use the outdoor shower and ONLY THEN the pool
and the shower has no cover, and the girls no bathing suit...
a buch of sweet young tanned girls playing naked in the pool...
I could never do this in the USA
but no problem in costa rica

I remember you talking of this before Krim & seeing the photo. Good times indeed I'm guessing the girl was too poor to afford a bikini and so had to go without. Handy you were on hand to towel her down

[Trenchcoat]

I went to Chisinau twice and spend a total time of more than two weeks.You could easily retrieve a teacher to learn Russian, you have to search for the local ad on internet and use google translator.

Yeah having thought this over I kind of think I see what you mean, as in I could get a tutor to teach me Russian at a far cheaper rate than in the UK If time allows I may give this a try.

[krimster2]

point is, outside of so called "civiliized countries", your "Perv Potential" goes up ENORMOUSLY!!!
there are still "lines" that cannot be SAFELY crossed...
but compared to civilized countries, these lines are real little ones...

there's a little park near the Shanghai Ritz-Carlton...
go there in tie and jacket, take a book/nexwpaper and sit on one of the benches
the custom is for English speakers who want to practice conversation to approach you
put down your newspaper/book and greet them in Chinese, "NeeHa"
it's best to go when children are in school, and only be approached by adults instead

more than half will be women, and most young and prettyish, kinda...
if they agree to go back to the Hotel with you, 100% they're gonna expect to GET LAID
and will be disappointed and PISSED OFF if they don't
so you better be prepared to deliver....

but that's how difficult it is to get a young chinese girl naked laying on your hotel bed in Shanghai...
I honestly don't know why ya'll wanna keep pursuing an auto-erotic relationship with your right hand
when it's not that difficult to arrange the circumstances of your life so that there can be a woman who handles that for you...
AND...
cooks for you
AND...
cleans for you
so WTF?
they is so USEFUL, these wimmin
why ain't ya'll GOT AT LEAST ONE???
HUH?

 

[Trenchcoat]

Lost 1.7KG over the last week so getting back on track on that one. Should easily get it off the weight before Chișinău trip so should look pretty trim again for it.

Learning Russian continues a pace not sure what standard I'll be by the trip but hopefully something more useful than the odd phrases that it was.

That said I've got to say Bee Farmer if you're looking in I think you're giving yourself a hard task learning a new language. I kind of hope you've thought over what I and others have been saying about Central/South Women as I really do feel with sincerity that it's an easy one that you're passing over and just giving yourself a very hard time needlessly. As said you already know the Spanish language so you're already gifted with that from the outset. If you double the time that you spent learning Spanish that is how long it will take to learn Ukrainian to roughly the same level, if you are going at a slower pace then longer, so 6 yrs +. While some girls may have a relationship with a guy with her speaking his language i.e English my thoughts are that some FSW may not take the guy seriously if he hasn't learned her native tongue (or near native) to some sort it f conversational especially if her English isn't all that good.

To me I feel you're missing out on a big bonus by knowing the Spanish language and an even bigger bonus by being a white dude by avoiding South America.

I think if a sheet were constructed with all plus & minus points it would read something like:

- For Central/South America

Knowing Spanish +50 points

Being a White +100 points

Short Flight +50 points

- For the FSU

Not really knowing much Russian/Ukrainian -50 points

For being a White +50 points

Long Flight -50 points

Etc, etc.

Point is I think you would be streets ahead in South America. I'm saying this with the hope of helping you out as you have helped me. As I said if I were in America I would choose Central/South America as the far more easily workable situation. I think if you look for a nice slimmish one you can probably work on her diet with her. Odds are down that way it's probably more down to local diet than a poor junk food diet. As a Farmer you can no doubt introduce her to good healthly food that pack less of the pounds on. Worth a go I reckon.

[LAman]

But the follow-up is:  How many of the people in Moldova are also conversant in Russian ?

In my years going to Chisinau, 100% of people around me and friends spoke Russian, I heard very little Romanian. In dealing with anything governmental, it was always in Romanian. Reminds me of how things were in Latvia.

[LAman]

Romanian women are not looking to leave in the same way that Ukrainian and Russian women are.  So not an efficient way to spend your time.

........
She is a 'hot' former flight attendant (actually still employed, but on extended leave it seems).
 

What is with the high temperature of women from Eastern Europe???

[ML]

What is with the high temperature of women from Eastern Europe???

I  think it has something to do with switching from Celsius to Fahrenheit when they move to USA.

[krimster2]

no, that just changes the scale you measure with, but not the actual temperature
beauty is as much in the eye of the beholder, as it is in the object being viewed

when you live in Russia for at least a year
you develop the ability that as you're out walking on a busy street
you can immediately spot westerners in the crowd
just based on suble differences in how Russian and Anglo-Saxon faces appear
just like with birds
the human species has different varieties with subtle external differences
like the western spotted warbler versus the plain colored eastern one

those subtle differences tell your brain something
in the case of a young Russian woman of child bearing age
your brain is trying to tell ya, that you should mix your genetics with this strange but sexually attractive woman's to create as much genetic diversity as possible instead of mating with local women from the same gene pool as you

when my brain told me this, I was like "WHAT"?
but then after it expained everything to me, like that this is part of an optimizing reproductive strategy through species hybridization
achieved by mixing "varieties"

so after my brain explained it all to me, I said OK!!!
and everything worked out GREAT!!!

[Bee Farmer]

That said I've got to say Bee Farmer if you're looking in I think you're giving yourself a hard task learning a new language. I kind of hope you've thought over what I and others have been saying about Central/South Women

I've thought about it, and summarily dismissed your advice as being clueless idiocy and absolute nonsense.  You look at things that are of miniscule value, and ignore things of most importance.

as I really do feel with sincerity that it's an easy one that you're passing over and just giving yourself a very hard time needlessly.

Who cares about how easy it is?  If I wanted easy, I'd just go find a fat divorced hoe at the local bar.  Easy yes, but unlikely to bring happiness.

As said you already know the Spanish language so you're already gifted with that from the outset. If you double the time that you spent learning Spanish that is how long it will take to learn Ukrainian to roughly the same level, if you are going at a slower pace then longer, so 6 yrs +. While some girls may have a relationship with a guy with her speaking his language i.e English my thoughts are that some FSW may not take the guy seriously if he hasn't learned her native tongue (or near native) to some sort it f conversational especially if her English isn't all that good.

I had 3 years of Spanish in high school.  I've forgotten a lot.  Yes, I could brush up on my Spanish and become conversational pretty easy, but I'm not fluent.
But at the end of the day, it's still a South American girl, and I would rather be alone than to have a South American wife.  My happiness has value, and single life ain't that bad.  A girl is going to have to offer a lot of value for me to give it up.  I don't see a South American girl offering the value I am looking for.

To me I feel you're missing out on a big bonus by knowing the Spanish language and an even bigger bonus by being a white dude by avoiding South America.

What does being a white dude matter?
I'd have even higher appeal as a white dude if I went to sub-Saharan Africa.  But once again, don't see African girls offering the value I am looking for.

Point is I think you would be streets ahead in South America. I'm saying this with the hope of helping you out as you have helped me.

Maybe you should stop thinking.  You are not providing any help. 

As I said if I were in America I would choose Central/South America as the far more easily workable situation.

I think you are full of BS too.  Africa is a short flight for you, and MANY African girls already know English.  There is massive poverty, with many black girls with a great figure who would love to get her hands on a white guy.  Yet I don't see you going to Africa looking for a girl.

[ML]

 with many black girls with a great figure who would love to get her hands on a white guy. 

Really . . . and having to give up those large units ??

[Trenchcoat]

I've thought about it, and summarily dismissed your advice as being clueless idiocy and absolute nonsense.  You look at things that are of miniscule value, and ignore things of most importance.

Who cares about how easy it is?  If I wanted easy, I'd just go find a fat divorced hoe at the local bar.  Easy yes, but unlikely to bring happiness.

I had 3 years of Spanish in high school.  I've forgotten a lot.  Yes, I could brush up on my Spanish and become conversational pretty easy, but I'm not fluent.
But at the end of the day, it's still a South American girl, and I would rather be alone than to have a South American wife.  My happiness has value, and single life ain't that bad.  A girl is going to have to offer a lot of value for me to give it up.  I don't see a South American girl offering the value I am looking for.

What does being a white dude matter?
I'd have even higher appeal as a white dude if I went to sub-Saharan Africa.  But once again, don't see African girls offering the value I am looking for.

Maybe you should stop thinking.  You are not providing any help. 

I think you are full of BS too.  Africa is a short flight for you, and MANY African girls already know English.  There is massive poverty, with many black girls with a great figure who would love to get her hands on a white guy.  Yet I don't see you going to Africa looking for a girl.

Myself I'm not in black women most white guys aren't it's an inbuilt thing I think, I generally don't think they look attractive due to the darker pigmentation.

Central/South Chicks though are different, many only have a slightly different skin tone to white people, they are almost white.

I don't see why you don't see 'value' there or what you mean by that Bee Farmer? Take Selena Gomez for example, she's hot, maybe not a stick thin/tall model figure but a well toned and in shape figure nonetheless. She's also been very successful in the pop music world. More importantly a nice big pair of boobers and a fine ass there - you not seeing any 'value' in that?

Tell me how many Miss World Beauty Pageants has Miss Venezuela won???

You could literally go now to Central/South America and be there in what 3-4 hour plane trip plus a bit of time travelling either end so well within a day. So this morning in America this evening in Venezuela, Brazil, etc wherever you fancy.

Instead you're contemplating a journey half the way around the world and back again to some war torn region where mental stress is high and flights are now apparently hard an expensive to come by and into Ukraine itself non - existant. Added on top of that you don't know the language so unless the girl is really into English culture in a big way and knows English near fluently it's a big barrier to overcome. ML is ok as he is a rich dude so girls dog that in a big way, he knows that, it's up to them to impress and chase him.

I just don't think you have come to your senses as to how out there those factors as I've just mentioned are weighing against you in such a venture.

These past three weeks on Dualingo I have from their emails roughly done:

Week 1: 6 hours
Week 2: 8 hours
Week 3: 8 hours

So 22 hours in all so not far off your 30 or so hours for a whole year! That's on top of a bit of Pimsleur, etc prior learning. I feel I've improved as a result but still nowhere near conversational, not as good as I need to be.

I'm not saying it can't be done not knowing Ukrainian/Russian but you've got more than one factor against you. My impression is that if the girls don't take you seriously out in the FSU at best they will move on and at worst they will see you as a fool and take you for what it's worth. You want to be seen as serious abroad whether in Costs Rica or Ukraine and a lot of that is going to be down to the language. The girl needs to see you as a serious going concern.

I just feel you may be letting old back in the day thoughts about Central/South America get in the way of what's a logical good move for you. This time of year the weather is no doubt warm in most of those parts whereas in Eastern Europe it's bitterly cold. In your shoes I sure know where the hell I would rather be.

[Bee Farmer]

Really . . . and having to give up those large units ??

You have a point.  My ring finger is longer than my index finger, so I forget how inadequate other guys can feel compared to the men in other countries.

You mean women care about the size of things other than a big, fat, thick wallet?

But according to http://www.worlddata.info/average-penissize.php men in Ukraine have a larger average size than guys in the UK.  Perhaps we should be encouraging Trench to go for a girl from Thailand or the Philippines.