If a woman lacks beauty, she’d better have a pleasant personality. If a man is not handsome, he’d better be rich. I find foreign women beautiful and pleasant. Beautiful American women (of all races) are demanding and stuck-up. It’s all relative but once you’re experienced great service with delicious food, you don’t want to return to the old bad restaurant. (Alright, go ahead, lay it on me for generalizing).

I agree and since I am neither rich, tall or handsome as a man, I need options. I have lived and traveled across Latin America and Asia and love the people and culture. Its not perfect but the food is good and weather as nice as San Diego for a bargain price. I plan to make visits and do research on how to purchase property in next few years. I may buy a place in San Diego IF prices EVER go down which seems unlikely for a long time due to speculation and low interest rates and easy credit financing. By 2012 we may have realistic prices once again. I agree about the sunshine tax, I am currently looking for a new IT tech job and find companies are very stingy and want to pay peanuts for employees in San Diego given the high cost of living here. I had an argument with this jerk investment financial advisor partner at a large brokerage firm recently who does not believe real estate in San Diego will go down. He kept saying it will flatten out and be a soft landing not a crash.