In my experience, dating 30+ year-old women has advantages and disadvantages; if you're aware of them and are OK with them, good for you. If you're not aware of them, well, you're in for a surprise.
30+ year-olds know their clock is ticking. They start to realize that if they ever want start a family, they'd better start NOW.
But 30+ year-old women have been around the block a few times; they have a long list of experiences and traits against which you will be compared. They'll be scrutinizing you as marriage material from the get-go. You'll be analyzed like a lab experiment, and you'll be dropped at the slightest perceived flaw. They know what they like and what they don't like. They'll be quite experienced sexually, which may be good and bad. Dating a 30+ year-old woman is about the goal of marriage and family, so if you don't want that, let her know early and be done with it. Move on.
p.s. Dating women who are 45+ years-old is a very different experience, especially if they've been previously married or have kids of their own. They're looking to upgrade their financial situation, or looking for companionship.
I think being in Alaska, where there are basically no people, all of those points have to be even more greatly accentuated
“upgrade their financial situation”
what he said. Its called “Trading Up”.
My experience is that women in their 30s are for the most part in “oh chit, I need to get a man” mode and are looking to settle.....looking to settle with guys they previously would have turned down and looking to settle with guys they probably don’t really want. That’s a big part of why a lot of guys don’t want them. Who wants to be in a marriage with somebody who doesn’t really want you?