I will add that just based on what I have read about picking up in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, unless you are going for European-Africans or Asian-Africans or middle+ class Africans money does seem to play quite a big role in things.
Naughty Nomad is an American(? I think?) guy who has chronicled his misadventures in that part of the world, and it's quite clear reading through his travelogue how big a factor money is there. Like
@seanmagy, he also reports heavy amounts of prostitution, especially in the nightlife. He also uses the "most women are prostitutes" line, which you will also hear about poor SE Asian countries (Thailand, Philippines, etc.).
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I haven't done sub-Saharan Africa, but I am familiar with SE Asia, and I have a bunch of friends who have lived in SE Asia extensively, and even the guys who start out pure 'game-only' guys eventually start mixing money into their game, then switch over to using money predominantly, simply because it is so much easier for them to get what they want with it there.
Another factor in less-developed nations is that women are actually harder to make 'love drunk'. There's a phenomenon in wealthier nations where love becomes a much more important factor in romantic couplings, for both sexes, and pair-bonds become harder to break. Women in poorer countries are much more practical.
If you've ever lived in a third world country and dated a woman from a poor background who believes you are also poor (I have), you know how brutal these women can be about money, even if you're doing awesome on every other metric in the relationship. You will never hear an end to the complaints about how other men are making so much more money than you and so on and so forth. It is really annoying. And I'm not talking gold diggers here! I'm talking frugal women with careful spending habits who don't dream of ever being rich. The gold diggers are obviously far worse.
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Now, there are variables here I don't know and can't weigh in on re: the security of those relationships in Africa either. She leaves you for Richer Guy A... when Richer Still Guy B comes along, will she then leave Richer Guy A for Richer Still Guy B? Maybe!
I also don't know you,
@seanmagy, and what your relationships look like. It might be that money is such an important factor there that it is totally overriding the pair-bond these women have with you, I'm not sure. Or it might be you are doing something wrong in the relationship that weakens the pair-bond to the point that women will escape when a guy offering a cushier life comes along, and you are seeing the effect but misidentifying that as the cause.
I can certainly say I've had plenty of guys tell me, "I keep losing women, and X is the reason," and I've spent all this time trying to help them figure out how to get around X, only to finally get a closer look at their relationships and realize X was not, in fact, the reason the relationships are ending at all, and instead the guy is doing or not doing something else entirely that is causing women to look around for a chance to eject.
I've been doing a lot more diagnosing of relationship issues with my GISS system lately, just for guys I know, and I think I might try to finally put my relationship product together, maybe late this year / early next.
I kinda would like to retire from making products myself, but it feels like that is one I should do before I hang up my spurs for good.
Anyway, that is just to say -- it isn't always the thing it seems like it obviously is when you're looking at "what is the cause of women leaving me repeatedly in XYZ situation?"
Sometimes it is. But a lot of the time, the obvious superficial reason is not the real driver of it.
Chase