> I have never heard a guy talk about the economic class a women fits into--Never! They find that special person and will do anything to win them over. In other

> I have never heard a guy talk about the economic class a women fits into--Never! They find that special person and will do anything to win them over. In other words, they find that person they find Perfect, and want a relationship--period. Being German I think differently about this topic. For finding prospective partners you also don't talk about money (that is hardly ever done in Germany - kind of a social taboo), but you talk a lot about education (indirectly you get from which class the other person is and/or how much money they will probably make in the future). You increase your chances very much if you have some kind of academic education that the other one respects (what kind of this is, is a really complicated game, but tendencies are: medicine - great, mathematics - good (at least if you are still sociable; great if you have a PhD), humanities - it's complicated ;-( , female engineer or computer scientist - great). Nearly all of the male PhD students in mathematics at the same floor as me that are married, are married to a female medicine student. I don't consider this as a coincidence. The same holds for other "educational" topics, say preferred taste of music (if you want to move up, it's surely not bad to like classical music) or whether you play(ed) a musical instrument (good sign if both did) (which is also considered as a kind of education in Germany). So, yes, in Germany you don't talk about class, but by talking about education you get lots of cues.