I was 24, and had somewhat recently gotten out of a really toxic, long-term relationship. When the relationship ended I decided to move abroad. I went to El Salvador and started working for a local government agency in economic development. Don’t ask me how, that’s an entirely different post on an entirely different subreddit.
Being 24 and alone, I took to Tinder. I lived in a pretty rural town where literally Tinder would be like swipe, swipe, done. But every time I went to San Salvador I would fire up the app and see bursting bounties of beautiful people-to-potentially-fuck. I usually swiped right pretty mindlessly, only swiping left if I was truly unattracted to somebody. Being a gringo apparently upped my attractiveness level by at least a billion out of ten, because I was getting matches constantly. I know what a lot of you are thinking, and yeah there were some visa diggers but a lot of women honestly are just attracted to gringos. I’m also not a particularly bad-looking gringo at that, and I speak fluent Spanish which obviously helps. I’m 5’11, with brown curly hair, hazel eyes, and an average-to-slightly-toned body. No Channing Tatum, but no Roseanne Barr either.