TempestOwl
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I'm from the US, but have been to Canada.
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
What countries have you been to?
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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Master Don Juan
-USA, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Tai Pei, Philippines, California…lol
Doctor Europeo
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England, France, Spain, United States, and Canada.
Travel memoir21
Master Don Juan
Those are all European influenced countries, which out of those is your favorite?
sevbucmash
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Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia, Armenia, Turkey, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, I'm from the U.S.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Bible_Belt
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St Lucia is beautiful.
BackInTheGame78
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Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Bahamas, St Thomas, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg.
ManFromTartarus
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Korea
Japan
Philipines
Bahamas
Mexico
(from USA)
Japan
Philipines
Bahamas
Mexico
(from USA)
Doctor Europeo
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Probably the United States, but only because they have both Disney and Universal Parks. If that want a factor for me, It would be harder to choose a favorite
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Master Don Juan
I arrive on Christmas Day back to the states in the evening. Hate The Air Port experience, Im not a big fan of riding 12 hour flights anymore and having to go through annoying TSA in Dallas.
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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Master Don Juan
Man one of the things Ive noticed since coming back to the states, is the people tends to be living in their own cocoon man. I just invited a few friends for dinner at a pub and they all canceled. Abroad this is not the case, I always have someone available to join me, even if it’s one person. We totally need to come out of our shell and live harmoniously in a virtuous manner so things can progress around here.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Yeah mon. I never got there but the southern Caribbean is great. Martinique was cool, island climate but French culture. The pastry was amazing but their body odor was rank.
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Master Don Juan
Id like to visit Toronto someday and see how Liberal and artistic and trendy it actually is in person. I sense the people there are more open to have a conversation with you on the streets depending on the vibe of the venue.
“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
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Toronto is very diverse, maybe you might meet people within your own community here.
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Yeah I thought about visiting, I have an aunt who lives there. Yeah I bet it’s just as diverse as Los Angeles but a little more pleasant and less polluted lol. Seems like a city where you can make a large social circle at your convenience in no time.
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I don't have experience or bandwith to confirm or deny that...but I think if you are a clear ethnic (ie you are SE Asian) and connect with your own community there then you should do great. When I did have more bandwith in the past I wouldn't say it's easier to form social circles than another place, like the Philippeans. Life is hard here for allot of people and therefore tend to be in their own worlds. Most of non-chad reports of the place here generally has been negative. That's why I feel if I visited a South American country like Brazil or Carribean like Domenican Republics, or South East Asia, I would tend to be more social since that's more normalized in those places. Here is still mostly business mode most of the time.