People who make 400K a year....
...don't usually quote it in "net after tax" terms. The only person with "big money" that I have ever seen do this is a dumb hillbilly that has owned a little chain of tire stores for about 50 years.
If they intend to dazzle you, saying "I make 750K " is substaintively more impressive than saying "I take home over 400K".
If they wish to remain modest or ambiguous, they will say something like "I make a six-figure income", or even "I make a fairly healthy income", if answering at all.
Eau de bullshit.
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3rd world women are nicer for a reason
American women are spoiled and have a luxurious life. In most of the countries that men find the women are so much nicer, there is desperate poverty and miserable conditions. Mongers love it in places like Russia, Thailand and South America because women are available for cheap who are beautiful. In places like Russia and Colombia there are dozens of websites devoted to women who want to marry men from other countries so that they can be taken away from the place. That tells you right there the places are seriously troubled.
I've actually had a couple of 3rd world women ask me when I would marry them after only a few days. There ARE some men who would marry a woman with such limited time, but they are few, and they are probably idiots. My friends have told me about some fools in the military who have married girls like this. By contrast, can you imagine an American or European woman talking about when are you going to marry me on basically the early stages of a relationship. Maybe some mentally disturbed girl but not your typical one that I've ever known or dated.
American women have their drawbacks and I sympathize with the guys who are forced to travel outside the country to find nice companionship. Ideally if you can find a nice intelligent American girl, that was well brought up, at least you know they aren't just interested in you because you are an American or wealthy. Wheras with someone from a 3rd world woman who wants an American that is what you're getting much of the time.
If someone is just looking to monger the rest of their life AW are the worst for that, and its better to ply our trade in the 3rd world.