Doug, I live in Wheeling, IL at the moment. This is a very decent neighborhood with many Russian speakers by the way. Yeah, just so you know I've always lived in decent areas during my time in the U.S. In addition, I did live in other countries and not just Europe, but also Asia and Middle East. You wrote many words, to make it simple: you disagree that women are supposed to pay as well. Well Doug, you are out of touch with reality, I will list points to make it simple. 1. Rent (or personal property) is expensive today. Younger generation need two incomes to survive these days, people with Masters degrees start from low $40k annual pay and they have to repay their loans. So how can one afford to pay for every girl he takes out when he has huge expenses. 2. Every generation is different. Your generation was very much into old-school lady-gentleman relationship. New generation is full of feminists who could care less about being a lady. When I was a student, I had an American-born girl who was my roommate for some time. So when I tried to pay for her at the bar she told me to f**k off and explained how independent she was. When I tried to open a door for her, she almost slapped me in the face and again explained how independent she was and how women are stronger than men these days. 3. I see you on this website, that most likely means you are single. That means your old-school ways may not work so well afterwards. Or is it that you just want a younger woman from Eastern Europe? In any case, you know the answers, I wrote just a few basic points on here. So how many women had you invited to visit you from this website? How many times did you buy tickets? What kind of gifts did you buy? If not, are you fine with spending $2-$3k for every woman you will meet as they describe on here (tickets, gifts, shows, restaurants, suprises etc)? OK, it is probably none of my business, but I could say the same about your writing. Or your writing could be to attract female attention. Well, then you should learn female tactics - they support each other all the time just because they are female. Men are dumb and fight among each other when they should be doing the same thing.