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I don't get your point. We are a diverse crowd.

Personally, I've lived what is pretty close to the highlight of single life (dating on NYC, traveling to 20-30 countries a year, etc) and now am a boring but super happy suburban dad of 2 (and hoping for more) - you don't think someone like me can offer an insight on what works and why?

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> traveling to 20-30 countries a year

No, probably not. Whatever your life circumstances are, they're so ridiculously far outside the norm that almost nothing about your life applies to most people's.

I am making an extreme point. Whatever people's idealized single life is, working in finance/tech in NYC, dating and traveling would be on that list. And I can still articulate why married life is way better for me.

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I am referring to the opportunity cost. I had the most "fun" to give up.

'Whatever people's idealized single life is, working in finance/tech in NYC, dating and traveling would be on that list.'

This is where you begin to overgeneralize.

What do you do that would have you traveling to more than one country a month?

I was a product manager at a finance tech firm and would do several region tours a year. So sometimes it would just be a day or two in a country at a time, still fun.

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