Just to recap. Never met face to face, just emailed and phoned and seen photos of each other, for about 3 months. Would you, if they asked you and offered to pay your airfare, travel 6000 miles and 10 hr flight to visit them?
2006-10-11 03:18:55 · 43 answers · asked by sadoldgit 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
NO, if they have to fly you around the world and pay for it they must look like my **** or act like it.
2006-10-11 03:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait a minute, you're a guy and this is a woman offering to pay your 6000-mile airfare? NO!
You're gay and a man is offering?
You are so old that sex will not be a possibility?
We need more details to advise you, but it sounds a little desperate on your correspondent's part.....the logical thing, if you both seem to enjoy each other's minds, is to meet halfway, paying your own ways. There would be nothing wrong with that. But be very prepared for a disappointment.....these e-mail/phone relationships are sometimes deceiving and you may find the photograph you were sent is fifteen years old!!!
2006-10-11 05:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by simon2blues 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure you know this person well enough even though you have never met face to face. I have lots of friends i met through email but once i know them well for a few months then i will travel to meet up with them at my own expenses and also on my business trips. if you think you know that person long enough then why not take the offer....good luck!
2006-10-12 16:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
although it sounds a bit sad... i have travelled to New York from London to meet a guy i had been chatting to for about 3 months! but i paid my own way booked my own hotel (and didn't tell him where this was) and met in a neutral place just as if you were meeting someone for a blind date locally, it was nice a kind of pre-arranged holiday romance... we had a great week together, visiting places etc... but it wasn't meant to be as a relationship, but I'm very glad of the experience and with the correct precautions would recommend it to anyone!
safety tip:
1) check out the other persons place of work, and address to make sure it corresponds to the same person and they are who they say they are.
2) pay your own way, then you are not indebted to anyone but yourself. and can come and go as you please. make it a holiday with a twist.
3) always meet at a busy location, well attended bar or coffee shop for a first and second meet.
4) if your at all worried, don't go or do it, if your instinct kicks in listen to it your inner self its most probably right!
5)but remember to enjoy yourself! you only life once!
2006-10-11 03:44:14 · answer #4 · answered by desprate mum 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe......I met someone 6 years ago online. She turned out to be a great friend. We still talk sometimes, but I have yet to meet her in person. She lives in Texas and I in Oregon. Its just too big of a hassle for to go down there. I love her to death, but if I saw her in person I think it would ruin everything. Plus, what if we hit it off, then she would have to move up here? Or I down there? Either way, its more of a hassle then its worth. There are plenty of ladies who live in my own town, and I can just call her like I have always done. If she lives in Hawaii, then that is a different story. Take the trip if it's a nice traveling location. Make sure you get your own Hotel just in-case.
2006-10-11 03:25:04 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew B. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't know whether this person is ok or not.
The only way I would go is if I went with a good friend, and arranged to meet this person in a public place while on holiday...i.e.investigate the country he lives in, find a friend who wants to go there, and travel round and see the sights. That way, if he isn't what you think he is you won't have to stay alone with him for 2 weeks!!! You can just tell him that you've arranged to go to another resort/town/city the next day.
Be careful!!!
2006-10-11 06:33:05 · answer #6 · answered by Copper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea. I guess it would depend on so many things....Why can't they visit your town, for starters?...and stay in a hotel, of course. I'm guessing you're talking about visiting another country since you mentioned 6000 miles..... Before I made the decision to go, I'd have to be sure that I'd be safe, so I'd probably book a hotel room in a safe area (research!) and meet the person in a public place for coffee or a meal.
But if it were me, I'd probably say no. If I really wanted to meet this person, I'd invite them to my home town and recommend a nice hotel for them to stay. Then I'd meet them publically.
Good luck!
2006-10-11 03:24:33 · answer #7 · answered by amdstreit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After my first husband and I got married, I started chatting with people online. Eventually, when I left him, I went down south to meet many of them.
But there is a difference, I, at least, had been talking to all of them for three years and on the phone.
I think you're playing with fire. You don't know if you're talking to a guy or a girl. You know nothing about them after three months and if they'll demand some form of payment for the airfare.
Don't do it.
2006-10-11 04:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No babe, don't visit, it smells a bit fishy, you don't know what you can land yourself into, they might want you as a drug dealer, or marry their grandmother. Time to be serious, no i don't think it is a good idea to visit someone whom you have met on the internet. If they can afford to pay for your airfare, why don't they come to meet you instead, think about it.
2006-10-11 03:29:52 · answer #9 · answered by Ruksana P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have met many people on the net but i have never travveled that far.
I once went down to london which is a good 200 miles away to spend the weekend with someone i met of the net and had such a great time.
If they are paying i would go for it.
2006-10-11 03:21:30 · answer #10 · answered by Lilolme 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they were paying then yes i would go theres nothing to lose.But i remember watching a TV documentary about a guy from USA met a woman the same way he flew all the way to Australia to meet her and propose and when he got there he couldn't find her,basically she had lied about everything from her name to place of work.
2006-10-11 04:12:42 · answer #11 · answered by candyfloss 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋