Would you let your husband move 2 months ahead of family?

[HKVICES]

I'll give the truth of HK. I'm a late 30's male who has spent most of his life in various cities in the US. I moved to HK last year and prior to that visited 3 times a year.

The concerns of cheating husbands are valid. Use the following criteria:

1. Does your husband make decent money - call it 200k US and up
2. Does he work in finance - investment banking, Private equity, hedge fund
3. Is he remotely good looking

If he meets 2 of the 3. The chances are high that he will be aggressively pursued by not necessarily just HK women, but golddiggers in general. China has a population of 1.3 billion, and HK is the purist capitalist city in the world, you are bound to have a massive population of attractive women looking to put their hand into that capitalist honey jar!!! There is a saying in China " would you rather be smiling on the back of a bicycle or crying in the back of a BMW!" Unfortunately there are millions that pick the latter.

I'll share a staggering stat. There are 7 million people in HK. Assume 3.5 million are men and 1,75 million of the 3.5 are men in the age of 25-50. Those men have fostered a known amount of 500,000 kids. That's almost 1 in every 3 men that have left a legitimate trail of evidence that they have cheated.

[emx]

I'll share a staggering stat. There are 7 million people in HK. Assume 3.5 million are men and 1,75 million of the 3.5 are men in the age of 25-50. Those men have fostered a known amount of 500,000 kids. That's almost 1 in every 3 men that have left a legitimate trail of evidence that they have cheated.

It is an assumption, not a statistic.

What is a statistic is that over 98% of the population in Hong Kong are Chinese.

[Mat]

I'll give the truth of HK. I'm a late 30's male who has spent most of his life in various cities in the US. I moved to HK last year and prior to that visited 3 times a year.

The concerns of cheating husbands are valid. Use the following criteria:

1. Does your husband make decent money - call it 200k US and up
2. Does he work in finance - investment banking, Private equity, hedge fund
3. Is he remotely good looking

If he meets 2 of the 3. The chances are high that he will be aggressively pursued by not necessarily just HK women, but golddiggers in general. China has a population of 1.3 billion, and HK is the purist capitalist city in the world, you are bound to have a massive population of attractive women looking to put their hand into that capitalist honey jar!!! There is a saying in China " would you rather be smiling on the back of a bicycle or crying in the back of a BMW!" Unfortunately there are millions that pick the latter.

I'll share a staggering stat. There are 7 million people in HK. Assume 3.5 million are men and 1,75 million of the 3.5 are men in the age of 25-50. Those men have fostered a known amount of 500,000 kids. That's almost 1 in every 3 men that have left a legitimate trail of evidence that they have cheated.

Statistics are taking a beating today.

Please tell me you are not in Finance....

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[Seano76]

Statistics are taking a beating today.

Please tell me you are not in Finance....

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Or on the other side of the trade from me. Either works.

[CAP]

Interesting topic, interesting replies.

Actually, my Mrs (a Taiwanese) does NOT want me living in any Chinese city alone.
She swears up and down that she trusts me, however, she said Chinese girls have a way of getting what they want when it comes to men. I say there is still decades of built-in perception of foreigners at play, but she swears otherwise! Interestingly, to counter my belief, ANOTHER Thai friend of mine living in Hong Kong ALSO SAID she doesn't want her boyfriend living in China alone (or Thailand for that matter), and her man is a Thai. Similarly of a Canto friend I have - she says Canto girls don't trust the mainland girls. They all agree that Chinese girls damn near will rape a man to get them if they really want them bad enough (by the way, Shanghai girls tend to have the worst rep). Surely not a large enough sample population, but, worth thinking about, I guess.

Though, to be fair, I think this can happen anywhere, so long as you have an ounce of cash and a speck of game... just so happens it is much much easier to have both of those in Asia - how many times have you seen the guy who you know damn well back west wouldn't come close to scoring with that model like Asian girl he has on his arm? Seriously~

[CAP]

Btw, not that it matters but... whilst it was definitely a bit odd and sort of like ruining the punch line to a good joke (no offense, but it's just truthfulness here), I understood Wedded But Available (perhaps it's an MBA thing).

[Satay Sue]

So what you're saying is that your wife doesn't trust you....

[chingleutsch]

Or that she wouldn't trust herself ...

[Satay Sue]

Or that she wouldn't trust herself ...

LOL, *LIKE*

[SiuMaiTaiTai]

I think in some cases, it is not about lack of trust but more about plain ol' insecurity (and not necessarily caused by something in the relationship itself...they could just be crazy ha!).