Warning: this is a humorous post. Not suitable for the faints of heart.

Have you ever dated a foreigner? The three of us (Lucrezia, Emma & Marina) have succumbed to a foreigner’s charm. Lucrezia (Italian) is married to an Australian, Emma (Australian) is married to an Irish, and Marina (Italian) is engaged to an Australian. So, yeah, we might be biased… but Emma has compiled a list of pros and cons of dating a foreigner in her usual humorous way. Let’s see if that charming foreigner is worth dating.

Dating a Foreigner

In Iceland (population approx. 330,000) there is an app called Islendiga which lets users bump their phones together to see if they are related so you can avoid accidental incest (the genius tagline is ‘bump in the app before you bump in bed’).

It’s not just in Iceland that this is a concern. As owners of a rogue grandfather, whom we have never met, but is thought to have carried on doing his bit to populate the country, my brothers and I have possible half-Aunts and Uncles and maybe second cousins existing out in the dating ether. Although I have no real desire to meet his other descendants, I can’t deny that the thought of accidentally hooking up with some kind of relative was a very real fear. Fortunately, my siblings and I have managed to find a way around this – we have all ended up with foreigners.

In this multicultural society we live in, hooking up with a foreigner is easier than ever before. However, just because there are all those exotic- non-relations out there ripe for the picking, should you necessarily go there? As someone with experience in this area, I have compiled a list of some of the major pros and cons of dating a foreigner.