Original poster, your thoughts echo my own, I've only been here on this site a couple of days and I don't claim to know all the differences in Ukranian/Russian and beyond women vs their North American and Western European counterparts but there are pictures and phrases that naturally turn me off from wanting to respond to somebodies initial interest. I am worried I am writing off women prematurely based on simple cultural differences but when you read I am a princess or a queen, the immediate perception I form is one of girls who consider them as such on this side of the pond, high maintenance spoiled brats...when I see Birkin bags and Louis Vuitton bags displayed prominently I think woman who demands these things, when I get a message and she mentions her love of fine champagnes, that's great but most of us live normal lives where we don't drink a 500+$ bottle of champagne in place of a bottle of water just cause it's monday...I myself have some expensive interests but I try not to emphasize qualities in pictures that I don't want to be known for. I think it's fairly reasonable for any woman to look for a man with certain means but when it's such an emphasis it becomes a turn off...I also get the desire for using professional quality shots but I'd love to see some more real ones mixed in, I work in the film industry I know the power of movie make up, and what magicians make up artists can be so it'd be nice to see some real faces. I am open to the possibility that I just need to re-frame my western mindset but it's nice to see that I'm not the only one surprised by some of what they see here.