| json_metadata | "{"musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","appDepth":2,"musingAppVersion":"1.1","appBody":"<p><em><strong>The following statement is not an advice nor condoning of certain behaviors, criminal and otherwise.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In many parts of the world you cannot buy people to be your property. <\/p>\n<p>Call it indentured servitude, arranged marriage, or even escort.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you do want to put your money on the table and get yourself a person legally bound to your person.<\/p>\n<p>There are several places you can arrange such transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly in Asia, there is a whole industry of young boys and girls who are willing to marry anyone who can get them a passport of a western country, or simply escape from their own country.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the person is rich, or middle class, or just have a stable job. <\/p>\n<p>For those poor communities, any way they can elevate themselves is a thing to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Very famous for such practice have been Thailand, where supposedly you can travel, and buy about anything, from a night with a ladyboy, to a child slave.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know to what extend that is true portrait of that country.<\/p>\n<p>In China, it have been an epidemic where young women from city have been kidnapped to be wives in the village due to a disproportional number of males to females in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle east and Africa, many countries allow for polygamous marriages.<\/p>\n<p>You can probably get a boy or a girl from a poor family to come live with you if you pay them couple $k.<\/p>\n<p>If you don't want to travel the world to find a potential wife who's willing to marry you with little to no effort on your part.<\/p>\n<p>You wanna date a first generation immigrant to your country.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, they will consider marriage much sooner. <\/p>\n<p>Because, when a local girl goes through a breakup, or problems at work, they can always stay at their parents...<\/p>\n<p>an immigrant girl will consider her right to stay in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, wouldn't we all?<\/p>\n<p>Often, they have their own money, they have education, and they have different standards of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>You can actually meet the love of your life and forget that you were considering paying $20,000 for a bride in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. <\/p>\n<p>This was fun to write.<\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone took from this how terrible China is. <\/p>\n<p>Your question was probably more about the cost of maintenance and financial expectations of women in different parts of the world, rather than paying for people to marry you.<\/p>\n<p>It's an individual and cultural thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes all you need to do is show the parents that you're from money, <\/p>\n<p>other times you just date for a while, split the bill and fall in love.<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn't look at marriage through the financial lens.<\/p>\n<p>Unless for you it's all about the status and you wanna marry up, it shouldn't matter, should it?<\/p>\n<p>And even then, to marry up, you're not the one who's going to take the financial burden, are you?<\/p>","appTitle":"WHICH ccountry's women are the cheapest to marry?","appTags":["money","life","market","economy","community"],"musingPostType":"answer","appParentPermlink":"pkfgrg5aw","app":"musing\/1.1","appParentAuthor":"bitcast","appCategory":"money"}" |
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