Why do ladies want to meet foreign men? Ladies of the VivaDating.com network are not poverty-stricken, desperately seeking a way out of their home countries. Their attitude is: "If I'm going to fall in love, it may as well be with a good man even if he is in another country. Why do they look to the West? The New York Times reported a great shortage of Russian men has developed since 1989 because of the dramatic increase in occupational deaths, regional wars, alcoholism, smoking and stress. Furthermore, a large percentage of men have moved from Western Russia and Ukraine to the oil fields, mines and factories of the Ural Mountains, Siberia, Far East and Kazakhstan. Male life expectancy is 56. Women live to age 74, on average, the largest gender difference in the world. Because of health factors, western men have a 10-15 years cosmetic advantage over their Russian counterparts after age 30; furthermore, Russian men historically treat women very badly and do not know how to function in a free-trade society. So Russian ladies are not looking simply for an exit out of Russia. They are starving for love and affection and are simply looking for a good man.