Quote: (04-11-2019 11:23 AM)nomadbrah Wrote:
Do a tour of Poland, Hungary, Ukraine
Has anyone done that, but in the villages?
In light of this thread it's dawned on me it may be a very good option and maybe not too difficult.
All the girls I met have been from cities and they have ideas of career. If they have ideas of career your ideas of running the show and living traditionally will almost definitely not be compatible with them.
Ideally I'd like to live quasi-rural, on a smallholding near the edge of a town or village in Eastern Europe, with 8 children and a maid/nanny. None of the girls I have met really wanted this.
I have a house in EE, in a hamlet where about 50 people live. This year there were some new neighbours. I was a bit taken back to start with by how poor they appeared. They had a daughter who was about 16. A typically blonde Slavo-Grecco type, good looking with a nubile body from doing chores round the home. In another iteration of reality she could end up as a Insta-thot, but chances are she'll end up marrying a builder from the village. A lot of these village girls have a nice aire about them. They're poor, but have a dignity. They tend to carry themselves quite gracefully and without ideas of being some Insta-hotty. And they have a quietness I like.
She would sit looking at me intently and when she would say a few small things to me in "school English". When she did I got the impression her parents were quite keen for her to do so. Their body language seemed to suggest she was on the market.
I experienced something similar in South Serbia. I went into a grocery shop that looked more like a garage. They realised I was foreign and asked where I was from. They came to the conclusion, "Oh, he's from France." (not the first time that's happened) and the two older women began gesturing at the younger woman, who was smiling, as if she was up for grabs.
But how realistic it is you could just swan around villages in these countries saying you're looking for a wife, not (really) speaking the language and hoping for something to come out of it - I don't know. But something like that does seem the best for a lot of us who want a more traditional existence with lots of children.