Why not get the visa and hit up Russia ?
Latvia is super small with a third of the population living in Riga. The women look amazing but the stag parties have damaged the reputation of foreigners. Learning the local language is hard and useless. I don't see it as a good country to find a wife at 40. Girls get married young with busted dudes and people are quite well off, Riga is one of the most expensive cities in Eastern Europe.
There is a Russian minority that doesn't get along very well with the locals, might be a good approach to befriend them but it would probably be easier to just go further East.
Latvia is super small with a third of the population living in Riga. The women look amazing but the stag parties have damaged the reputation of foreigners. Learning the local language is hard and useless. I don't see it as a good country to find a wife at 40. Girls get married young with busted dudes and people are quite well off, Riga is one of the most expensive cities in Eastern Europe.
There is a Russian minority that doesn't get along very well with the locals, might be a good approach to befriend them but it would probably be easier to just go further East.