Ethnicity and Height Insecurity

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Quote from: mtall on August 20, 2016, 10:13:46 AMCC, which is the shortest area in the US?
I actually understand that its not that bad. But the reason I'm still going in for the surgery sometime next year is that...it will definitely expand your dating pool.
If I'm 5.5 and taller/equal to 50% of the women in the US, I can become taller/equal to 75% by doing LL. Thus, I've just expanded my options by half.
And, women are just generally important to me. So doing this procedure is more a "you gotta do what you gotta do" thing rather than a whim or fancy.

I would have no idea what the shortest area is. I mean, the average is 5'10 for young white dudes, so that's pretty much what you are going to find. At 5'7 you can wear shoes with a nice heel and blend right in with the average. Areas with lots of minority's are shorter for the total male average though, obviously. (Think Cali, Texas, Arizona, Hawaii, Florida, Oregon, Washington State)

I've said it before though, if you're a short or shorter guy in the USA, live in a diverse larger city. I've lived in Seattle, Portland Ore, Denver, and Minneapolis, and I've also lives in several towns under 200,000 people. The quality of life is immensely better in larger cities. Lot's more options in everything, including women. (Minneapolis sucks balls though)

Edit: And to add, yes you would be taller than about 75% of women. That gets thrown around this forum a lot too, that women are taller than what the studies say it is, but that is not true. I am taller than the vast majority of women I see daily, even where I live. The real problem is that a lot of American women are wider than they are tall...

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Quote from: mtall on August 20, 2016, 10:07:11 AMI'm in India...and trust me, 90% of the guys here (middle class and upper middle class) are between 5.7 and 5.9. But those who are 5.10 insist they are 6' and no one disputes them because they're usually the tallest in the room.
One more thing I notice is that almost everyone over estimates their height.
A tinder match recently asked me my height and when I said 5.5, she said, "oh. I'm 5.7, are you still okay with meeting me?". Met her and she turned out to be a good inch or two shorter than me. then she refuses to accept she is not 5.7, but rather tells me that I must be 5.8 or 5.9   hahahaha.

Ha, yeah. I have three close female friends, one claims 5'7.5 (is 5'6), another 5'9 (is 5'7.5) and another 5'6 (is 5'5). 

There was someone I dated who was taller than me by a hair, around 5'6, said to me "you're around 5'8 I'd guess"... Really?

I have a friend who is 167cm, he always used to claim 5'7 until I was like, nah mate. Another friend is around 5'9.5, claims 5'10.5.

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You gotta realize that being white isn't equivalent to speaking English and speaking English doesn't mean the person is white.

Recently I traveled to China, people with standing height same as me told me he's 187 cm (while I know I'm somewhere between 5'11 and 6'). He told me in his country people measure their heights with shoes on - which is perfectly fine just like how we measure our heights in DMV in US. Thus I don't think adding in an extra inch (around 2 to 3 cm i believe) on your documents is something wrong and there's no reason to point out to humiliate people.