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Quiz

Which Country Should You Date In?

Not which nationality suits you — which dating culture fits the way you actually meet people, move, and say what you want.

  • 9 questions
  • about 2 minutes
  • 48.2K people have taken it

Nine questions about pace, family, directness, language and the flights you can realistically afford. You get a dating culture at the end, with a few countries attached as examples — never a person.

The usual version of this quiz tells you which nationality you'd "suit", which is both useless and slightly grim. People are not a product category, and no country has a personality. But dating cultures really do differ in the parts that cause friction: how people meet, how long the undefined stage lasts, whether the family turns up in week three or year three, and whether interest gets stated out loud or signalled and left to be noticed.

So answer for yourself rather than for who you'd like to be, and you'll get an archetype with a handful of countries attached as examples. Then hold the caveat that matters more than the result: the variation between two people in the same neighbourhood is far bigger than the variation between two countries. Use this to work out what you want, then go and ask the actual person. If you'd rather skip to the practical version, start with how to meet people from other countries.

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