Why do women study abroad twice as much as men?

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My 2 cents: It's all about guys.

If the women were planning on settling down... they'd be settling down. Based on my experience with American study-abroad women, many of them have a bit of a chip on their shoulder. Especially those who go to Paris, Barcelona, Florence, Prague. They consider America limiting and Europe (and European guys) far more interesting than their US fellow-students.

A year abroad is ideal because it requires neither the independent drive nor the full commitment that moving abroad would require.

Most the American women I met abroad can't really take the lack of amenities and luxuries they're used to from the States for longer than a year. After 9 months, they usually long to go back home. Especially when it turns out that Fabio or Cédric is just as immature, shallow, stupid and horny as American boys, except they shower less.

And they have very little ambition.

Even if they hook up with a guy who showers, it's far more likely that they take him home to the States, rather than vice versa.

How do I know: I'm one of those European guys who showers.

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