I started blogging after I retired as a way to keep my mind sharp. ---Disclaimer: My wife says it is not working. End-disclaimer---

One of the things my readers seem to enjoy is fiction. Especially "Doomer-Porn". So, I write "serial fiction" similar to what used to show up in magazines.

So my currently story line needs a mail-order bride. Please share your opinions!!!

If the [bleep]-hit-the-fan and social order disintegrated and your son showed up at your house with a mail-order bride, where would you want her to have come from?

-South Africa: Speaks English. Has seen the ugly that happens when stuff falls apart. If from farm community is work-oriented.
-Southwest Mindanao, Philippines (Basilan Island): Christian pushed out by Muslim majority. LOTS of mail-order brides come from Philippines. Points against: Christians tend to be the rich land-owners and live in cities. Not necessarily the best people if thing go in the septic-tank.
-Belize, Costa Rica or Panama:They speak English in Belize. Many people coming from Latin America.
-Romania, Bulgaria, Uke or Rus: Very low GDP. Girls from rural areas used to physical labor.
-Other?

So, if you had to pick a country-of-origin for a mail-order-bride to be an asset to the family during civil disorder and a rapid retrograde to 1920 technology....which country would it be?

Thanks a million.

-Joe

Russian, dedicated, hard working people.

Puts out?

A neighbor got taken to the "Cleaners", twice.

Must have got a Chinese?

Can you get a mail order bride from Texas??

View the movie: "Sweet Land".

Western Alaskan...life is easier now, but most still know how to get the important stuff done. But it's been nearly 50 years since I was there, so who knows.

Ukraine.

Then he met, and married a Philippine lady, and they have a daughter.

Someone from the former Jugoslavia that lived through the break-up.

Need someone handy with a weapon, can run Ham-ops network, and make killer bread in austere circumstances.

Filipino women have big needy families that require lots of cash to be shipped 'back home'.

Most of them pretty good workers though, if ya can afford to support their families.

I knew a guy who married a gal from the Philippines that way. She was a lot younger, not much older than his 2 adult kids. A few years later he was dying from cancer. His wife didn't like the terms of his will. She had some mob connections who kidnapped him and tried to extort money from his kids. They were caught and he was returned shortly before he died. I assume his wife is in jail.

After 45 years in the workplace I've seen at least 30 guys try this route. I only know one who made it work.

"I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old dad,"

If you're writing a story about a man's son showing up with something that could be an asset to the family after the collapse, you need to be asking about mules,....not wives.

I love my Latin woman, the ones that haven’t crossed the border and been brainwashed. Family oriented, hardworking and sexy as hell. I wonder how the process of a mail order bride works compared to marrying them in their country as far as visas are concerned

Wherever they come from I'd be real careful to read and understand their return policy before going too far!

No returns unless in original condition. WITH seal intact.

Another vote for Russian. A sturdy young babushka.

Those Ukrainian girls are all about the anal.

Why not a local Amish girl?

Vietnamnamese. She can pull bugs off the tater plants, cook you up a bowl of golden retriever stew, and field strip an AK all while giving birth to a little future VC sapper.

Impressive.

I had a Eskimo chick that could piss off the side of my skiff while underway, I found that to be a cunning quality.

Marriage is their ticket to American citizenship.

Gotta watch cause that's all some are after..

IMO it's about 6 of one, half a dozen of the other, etc.

I've known some men that weren't very happy
because they stayed all puffed up and looking
for a conflict about their furrener wife.
Known some others that wallered in high cotton.
A long time girlfriend I had, had a filipina sister
in law that was what they used to call a nympho.
She'd been caught several times, and used to
tease/tempt me all the time. She looked just
like that woman that played on the Relic Hunter
tv show, except without the boobs.
Could have been sisters. She had the biggest
collection of toys that I'd seen at the time.
Worked with a man that had a m.o. bride he
was all grins about, until their baby came out
wrongly tinted quite unlike either one of them.
He was pretty hard to get along with after that.

I would hope to have raised a son wise enough to make his own good choices. Hopefully also strong enough to tell the old man where to go, should I take issue with his choice. Then I’d know I’d done my job as a father. Sorry if that doesn’t fit the narrative. 🫤

How do you order one?? Do they come in all sizes?

Oregon

I struggle to imagine needing to go offshore to find a bride. There are plenty of women here.

Tons of women here, why go to all that trouble. You are asking for trouble!!!

Read the original post. This is a post apocalyptic scenario fantasy short story. GFC

Smalls are out of stock

😆😳

Bosnia

Eastern Europe. I’d like to keep the gene pool at least within the pasture.

lol. Most of them are trouble. Ex’s, Brat kids, baggage…. Cheating bitches…

I want this one from Russia!

Absolutely "killer" suggestion. Croatia?

Instead of marrying these beeotches, these fellers should just rent them for a few months... or a few hours.

If you think back to 1920, labor was in short supply. Big needy family is not a disadvantage if they are not from the "entitled" class.

I thought babushkas were the older ladies with 2 layers of wool sweaters, heavy skirts, and pantyhose! You can tell the pantyhose cause when they fart their ankles swell!

The top two questions cut to the core of the problem.

If things go all Weimar Republic or Soviets-invade-Eastern Germany, then there are some characteristics you want to avoid at all costs.
-Lazy and unwilling to do what needs to be done, even if it is dirty or cold or breaks their fingernails
-Unable to see what is because they live in a world of "should-be"
-So addicted to social affirmation that they cannot leave their girl-friends
-Did I mention "entitled"?

If you want to be successful in a free-fall into 1880-to-1920 technology, surround yourself with skill-players who played the game at that level.

Only if they are stump-broke.

"Frankly, Leftennant, most men just ride it into town...."

(Chuckling) The mother-ship is a group of militant Amish (Danube Swabians) that the pacifist Amish don't have much truck with.

Looking for a little bit of out-crossing vigor.

And they’ll probably divorce yer ass as soon as they get their citizenship. Had a buddy that happened to.

As I understand it, there are thousands of Ukrainian women looking for new homes.

Bosnian - Survivor of the siege of Sarajevo. Great city: readers will recognize from 84 winter Olympics and older ones will recognize its part in WWI kicking off. It's the Jerusalem of Europe - you'll have a Mosque, Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and a Synagogue in the same area. Don't know how deep you'll go on background story but the town is like 80% Bosniak (Bosnian-Muslim) and only 5% Croatian, Serbs are like 4% with the rest "other". So odds are she's Bosniak by ethnicity but likely very flexible on that and converted to be with the boy. The Bosniaks I knew and worked with - they're Muslim in name mostly, not so much as a hard core like we think of in the Middle East. Hell I knew a Bosniak female that was reading the Quran in the bathtub, fell asleep and drowned the book. Destroyed. Females aren't even supposed to touch it much less read it.

Bosniaks can be very "flexible" in belief (how they became Bosniaks to begin with and why the Serbs hate them so much) and that likely fits stories then.

Then again - ham-op networks are more Serbian in execution, less so Bosniak from my experience so that part might not jive. Call it "artistic license"

Still working on the lead-in. Things are about where they are now +12 months. At a macro level, the election is a hot-mess. The dollar lost world-reserve currency status and inflation is +100%. Cities are burning. Suburbs are burning. All of the usual suspects are being rounded up and being made object lessons of. But at the level of the story, very little of that is known. The group is very isolated, sort of like Gilligan's Island. But they are about to get a [bleep]-ton of people dropping in looking for a safe-haven.

Shade in the summer, warmth in the winter. At least she doesn't have worms. If she was a Hereford, we would call her "a easy keeper"

Thanks Mr Blue Green (or is it Green Blue?)

Sounds like a winner.

I won't keep you guys up late tonight but will revisit in the morning.

Second-place was a girl who was home-schooled in Alaska by a Texas abuela who taught gunsmithing as a side-line.

Duck not Color

If she were a Hereford LOL her legs are larger than a Hereford so…

Green or blue wing?

GFC... Global financing crisis?

Why can we only have one? Why not one of each? Put me down for the whole "6 pack".

Mexico. They know what getting married means.

Best case would be from the Isle of Lesbos. Maybe they would not reproduce.

Lolol

A nice sturdy gal with skills, some nice assets, she can catch and cook crawfish. I would be all in.

I say have some fun with it. Your reader will expect her to be Eastern European because of the stereotype. Make her some kind of prima donna but let her character evolve when she realizes she has to pull the trigger or die.

Then make her kill someone with an axe to protect the family. And not sloppily, so maybe there’s a question about her past. She knows how to swing an axe and when the time came she didn’t hesitate. No one had to tell her what to do.

Much more engaging than a trope.

And give me credit for the idea.




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She’s definitely an easy keeper, do anything in the world for you with a smile no less.

5’8”, 240 lbs 🥵

What’s wrong with that? She can pull a plow just fine.

Nothing at all, she beautiful!

She's, just a little huskie.

Im thinking Houston

Starched and pressed?

I like em thick!!

Ireland...

What I wanna know is how can you tell she attended the University of Washington?

I married a trailer park girl who had never driven a manual transmission, cut up or canned a deer, made sauerkraut, or canned beans. Never gardened until we started dating. Timid.

Right after out honeymoon she went to truck driving school, we drove long haul for
several years. She has been right beside me in some food gathering escapades,
we mostly lived on deer meat for a couple lean years. Put up over 100# of sauerkraut
this year.

That skinny, trailer park girl that was never actually in a Redneck lifestyle, now lives in a very nice neighborhood. And will out work a lot of men cuting wood, helping dig a ditch, right beside me fixing a septic pump.....



Pharmseller has a great idea.
If your style allows for Tom Clancy style character development.
Let her be a person.


No idea how your story line is, how they meet.
This young woman could provide a lot of storyline.

Spoiled, educated, beauty queen, daughter of a wealthy Swiss Banker.
Loves cross country skiing, mostly for solace.

Gotta ask, the mail hardly works now and you think it will after chit hits the fan? Well as long as your dreaming go to Misc. Forum, Hot ladies thread scroll thru a few pages and check out Nata Lee just a hard working Russian gal with no plans to go back I'd guess. Looks like she could pull your horse around. Lol

I got me one raised poor and barefoot in the hills of Missouri, she's a good'un. Nothing else quite like a soft, sweet woman in a warm bed.

Ireland

Philllippines: LBFM

I'd go with Russia. When I was going through my divorce from Satan back in the mid-90s, I saw an ad for mail-order Russian brides. I subscribed just as a lark. Every month, I got a diskette with a few dozen bios and photos. The drop-dead gorgeous ones were all X-d out and marked "Taken." The ones left had bios like "Works in QC at Ammo plant #13" or "Insemination Specialist at Poultry Plant." They looked fairly high mileage.

I had a buddy who taught Supply Side Econ at Moscow University every winter. He said that as soon as he arrived, he'd be set on by gorgeous Russian women who asked to practice their English with him. He'd have a good time, wine and dine them and then dump them when he left back for the states. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Danger.

Sounds like my 2nd. grade teacher Mrs. Bath. Big 'ol gal who wore a tight girdle and when she passed gas, that girdle would hold that smell for a long time. Couldn't wait for the bell and a quick run outside for fresh air.

I have had characters that grabbed the keyboard and started writing the stories for me. It is fun for me when that happens.

The characters that do that have a coherent and plausible back-story. I need to pad this woman's resume to make her work. For instance, if she is in the 20-to-25 year-old range then she was not born yet during the Siege of Sarajevo, so I need at least have some idea of where her family went and what they did for 10 or 20 years before coming over here.

Sarajevo is very urban. Our post-SHTF woman must have rural skills.

She needs to not be afraid of physical work. She needs to be comfortable with getting sweaty, dirty and stinky. No, that isn't one of my "kinks". Thanks for asking. She could be an athlete but farm work isn't the same as pumping iron.

The devil's greatest lie (from The Screwtape Letters) is that there will always be another tomorrow. Women have a strong nesting instinct and are loath to believe their own eyes when they see their area-of-operation go from Code-Yellow to Code-Red. They anchor their families in-place until it is too late. Throw in the fact that the bug-out location doesn't have indoor plumbing and is physically isolated and you have strong resistance to the women processing data and deciding to move.

That means that the vast majority of the people who show up at the bug-out location will be single guys who can drop the apartment keys into the manager's mail-box and walk away.

To keep the story-line interesting I need to have a "family" show up at the bug-out-location early to keep the dynamics from going too high-testosterone.

That means I need a woman who is hyper-sensitive to what is going down. Maybe she was assaulted in her early-teens during civil unrest at the family's bounce location....say Syria and Arab Spring revolutions. Between the family history and living through Arab Spring she would be loading up the truck before her man put down his PBR and got out of his recliner.

Thanks a million to all who responded.

-Joe

They are the friendliest folk you'll ever meet. Always happy but you're right about the "family back home" deal. My youngest brother married one. He's in his early 50s and she is probably in her mid to late 40s. Soon her son from the old country will be coming to Canada and will live with them. I'd take a hard pass on that!

Yup. My brother had a friend who met a Filipino girl onlline. He went over there and married her. He told my brother that it cost him something like $25k to get her a US visa. Then she got off the plane with her visa in 1 hand and divorce papers in the other. It cost him another $25k to get rid of her.

My brother went through 4 Philippine nurses all gorgeous, and none of them could put up with him.

Apparently you haven't been to Delta...

Real nice assets.

Why did she go out to the well for water when she has tap water in the house? And what did she stuff those crawfish with?

+1 amazing beautiful woman.

I think that was her only drinking water supply.

Looked like millet.
One of the favorite grains that East Euros/Russians eat.

the russian may come via bensonhurst brooklyn, watch out.

Wow! What a gal. I been out with over 40 gals in my life and maybe only one close to her motivation. She was portagee . Got tired of her quick. I would like to hear what Wabi and Hanco think of this Ukrainian gal? I met a Ukrainian gal about 24 years ago but she was engaged. She divorced about 5 years later. Nice gal. She worked at a bank, weekends at a waitress and taking a full load college class in business. I will never forget her.

Oh fúck off.

most philipinas that I knew were in health care (not off the boat). Now a days they are just as likely to be muzzy

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