Travesty,
I'll touch your most important points in selecting a country and a wife in order of importance IMO.
First and foremost, if you're from a family of immigrants from any country in the world, then your first choice should be to look into going to the Old Country and have relatives there recommend a good family girl. Spend at least 3-6 months with her in order to know her and see if there is compatibility between the two of you before tying the knot.
If going to the Old Country and use your family connections to hook you up is not a viable option, then the next best option is look into a country where
you have a genuine interest in it. Genuine interest in the country, the culture, the language, the music, the food, etc...That will be crucial because that country, that culture, that language, that cuisine is going to become an integral part of you for the rest of your life. You've listed some pretty "exotic" countries on that list.
Finding a girl to marry is not the same as finding a girl to date and or have a fling with. There needs to be a lot of things in common for it to have the best and highest chance of success. So take some time and think carefully about which country you have the most genuine affinity with.
Learning Spanish or Portuguese is very easy relatively speaking. Learning Russian is hard. Now, learning Mandarin, or any Asian language, these are probably the hardest languages to learn for a non native adult. Again, a very important factor to take into consideration.
Once you've narrowed down your list of countries of interest to one or two which passes the above filter, then go spend time there. Not 1 or 2 weeks or even 1-2 months as that would not be anywhere near the amount required to get a good feel for the vibe, the culture, the local people and for you to build a solid social circle there. But rather spend at least 6 months to get a basic understanding of a place and the social proclivities of the locals.
Needless to say, I would not recommend pipelining girls online to find prospects for marriage. For short flings and perhaps casual dating, by all means. But marriage? A resounding no!
First find a country using the above filter, then go spend ideally 6-12 months there with
the main goal of first and foremost to build a solid social circle of real local friends of both sexes and to learn about the culture from the ground and see and understand the local people and way of living. Then, once you've built a solid social circle, let them know that you are looking to get married to a good girl from a good family and background. By then, you would have shown them you're for real and not just playing and you've gained their trust and respect, thus they would be more than happy to assist you in finding a solid trustworthy woman.
Again, do not using online dating sites and pipelining for a wife! That's a surefire recipe for disaster!
I don't have any hard stats, but I am willing to bet anything, that the guys who are being fleeced by their foreign brides once they have reached the Promised Land in the West, they were found online, on dating sites or in bars/clubs. And I'm equally positive and equally willing to bet anything that those men who have been happily married for years, if not decades, with foreign women, they've met them and were introduced through their local mutual friends back in her country.
Once you do find her, spend the time to get to really know her, her family, her friends, co workers etc. Spend at least 1 year with her in country before making any major moves such as marrying her. And if you do go ahead, stay there and build a life in her country.
The least desirable option, at least IMO, would be to bring her to the US or the Anglosphere for all the reasons that have been already mentioned here. But most importantly because life is a beautiful adventure and the world is big and beautiful. And once you start traveling and spending enough time in other places around the globe, you realize that Life is actually more fulfilling, more fun and more healthy elsewhere than in the Anglosphere.
Use geo-arbitrage to your advantage man! Your $ will go way further outside of most of the Anglosphere countries than inside of it. You WILL enjoy a much higher and more luxurious quality of life for half, if not 1/3 or even a 1/4 of what you're currently spending in the US just to live a "normal" life where you'd be only surviving and going through the motions as a robot. Hence the importance of building an online, portable business.
Now, regarding work. If you want to go the corporate/work route, then the ideal would be learn a portable skill (trades are perfect for that!, or say if you've got the academic and professional credentials, become an expert in your field and either make it so that your company relocates you to the country of your choice or by working remotely yourself).
If you're more the entrepreneurial type of guy, then the best thing to do is to learn a skill and build an online business that you can run from anywhere in the world as long as you have reliable and fast internet connection.
IF you've already got a skill/academic and or professional credentials, then build a productized service business around it that you can run online. If you don't know what that is, head to tropicalmba.com and run a search for the "productized service business" and listen to all the podcast episodes on it! That will get your creative juices flow and work on overdrive at the speed of an F1 racing car!
Here's a 3 year game plan I'd recommend you to achieve all of the above:
- Save say 20K, then head off to Asia, to one of the many hubs of entrepreneurs in the region such as say Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Saigon, Davao or even Shenzhen if you're into physical products. (I recommend Asia for that as Asia is cheaper to bootstrap.
However, if you're more keen on a Latin or European base, then you do have options there too. Medellin in Colombia, Belo Horizonte in Brazil, Santiago in Chile for South America as well as Budapest, Berlin and Barcelona for Europe are major hubs for digital entrepreneurs.
You can post up in these places and bootstrap your biz for about 1-2k/month. During that year, network with like minded people, get inspired and motivated, form your own mastermind with them to get you pumped and going and bounce ideas off of each other.
- In that first year, your goal will be to learn a skill that you will use to build your service business around.
- In the 2nd year, your biz will be starting get some good traction and making decent money. That's where your focus is on selling the crap out of that skill!
- In the 3rd year, your business will be at a point where you are scaling it as fast and as much as possible.
Give yourself 2-3 years to achieve that, which is very realistic and doable.
Use your existing credentials and or professional skills. Are you a lawyer? accountant? Dr? IT professional? Programmer? Graphic Designer? Financial advisor? Insurance salesman? Car salesman? Real estate agent? You name it! Use your existing skills and build an online service business around it. You know your industry better than most people and already have the contacts so it's all a matter of execution.
Or do you have a talent for say writing? Copy writing is a fantastic option!
Do you have a great voice? Use it to offer voice over services/commercials on a freelance basis.
Are you good at something or are you familiar with a very specific and niche related software/programme? Then focus on becoming an expert on it and then, build a service biz around it.
Want some examples of that?
US/Canadian/European/Aussie Drs consulting over Skype from Thailand for $75/hr instead of the standard 300/hr while living the good, relaxed and stress FREE lifestyle.
Lawyers doing 10 hrs/week of consultations over Skype while jet setting around the world on their own schedule instead of having the life suck out of them and working themselves to an early heart attack working 80-90 hours/week for a firm back in the US/Canada.
Same for accountants, IT pros, programmers, etc...
Here's a concrete example of a girl, a financial advisor, who was sick of the corporate grind and just did that, built a service business around a very specific niche and is now crushing it!
http://genyplanning.com
You can even hear her talk about how she built that biz. Very informative and inspiring!
http://www.tropicalmba.com/10trueclients/
I highly recommend you go over all the content on the following link as it covers in details what I just wrote above and especially pay close attention to the section on productized services:
http://www.tropicalmba.com/best-of-tmba/
To recap, first build a solid foundation and get your finances in order. Start first with going over your existing skills/credentials and see what service you could build a business around.
Next, save enough (20K or so) to take one year to fully focus on learning a skill and build that biz. Go and put yourself in an environment that's positive, inspiring and fertile in making you reach your goals. Being around like minded people is key! Remember that you're the product of the 5 people you spend most time with! So choose carefully who you surround yourself with!
Go to one of the many hubs of entrepreneurs around the world and get down to work to build that biz.
After a year or so, you'd have built it.
Then, tackle the next phase of your plan, that is going to the country that you've selected your future wife to be from. Post up there, build a solid social circle, learn the language, the culture, immerse yourself into that culture and after you've built that social circle, let the word out that you are looking for a good, high quality local woman to marry.
The plan is laid out in front you. Now, go make it happen my friend!
To your advanced success Travesty!
