So, I used to mildly scoff at the idea of New Leanna being a mail order bride, but I've been sitting on this idea for a while and I've got to say I'm warming up to it. I am totally prepared for the influx of optimistic ratings, but hear me out!
LEANNA.RU - A CASE STUDY
1) Save the house!
Phil was very adamant that he needed his house or else the girl wouldn't date him. I believe this to be true, but for reasons different than you might imagine. Since Phil has been unemployed for the past 10 years (or at best, self-employed), convincing immigration that he would be able to sponsor a foreigner to get her visa would be almost impossible. UNLESS he put down the kahndo as some sort of collateral, to show that he does have funds. A two bedroom house is certainly more impressive to immigration officers than a bachelor bad in some "bad part of town in CT". And what's better than one property? Two properties and a car. That's why it was important. I might even go so far to say that this sudden interest in taxes and registration of his "business" would be to have further paperwork to prove his assets to the government.
2) Driver's license
Phil has also said that she needs to get her drivers license when she arrives. If I recall correctly, he said she needs to get her a new driver's license, implying that she had one before. So, if she lived in the US, it would be just a matter of paperwork and getting a new picture right? He makes it out to be like she needs to do some tests, get some lessons...perhaps because the driving laws are totally different there than where she lives? Like from a foreign country???
3) New phone
He also needs to provide her with a new phone. Not just a phone plan, but an entirely new phone. Perhaps because her old phone is locked due to a foreign provider and in Phil's peanut sized brain it would just be easier to get a new phone than to pay any sort of unlocking fee???
4) 3 date rule
We know from Phil that he has seen her 3 times before they fell madly in love with each other and decided to move in together. 3 times this girl hopped on a plane, with connection flights, and stayed a short time with Phil. That is an incredibly short amount of time to decide to move in with someone, specially someone like Phil. You know who else meets up with their potential lovers just like 2-3 before deciding to commit fully to a relationship? Men looking for a mail order bride (source: have watched tons of documentaries about mail order brides). They don't want to waste time and money flying them in more than that. And people like Phil wouldn't be caught dead leaving the US. Too scary, too much time away from his hardcore gaming schedule.
5) Phil has a huge ego
Phil is all about appearances. He wants something that looks good and that doesn't require a lot of him. A mail order bride would be the perfect fit for this. He could get a decent looking girlfriend without ever having stepped out of the house. One who additionally, probably doesn't require much of an emotional or physical investment. One of the first thing Phil has ever said about New Leanna was that she loved to cook and clean. Wow! Strangely enough a lot of the men in those mail order bride documentaries say the same thing. It's weirdly specific. Also, if her English is poor, that's even better, because then she won't steal Phil's limelight. He probably fears a woman who is cooler than him like hell. Leanna was annoying, but when she burned him on cam, you could see his manhood slip away and his rage silently build. New Leanna's lack of grasp on the English language would be much easier to show dominance over.
Now I know what you're thinking. Phil wouldn't shell out money for a mail order bride. Or would he? Didn't he just shell out $+100 for a chair just to save face from a failed sponsorship??? Is it that much of a stretch to think he would shell out money to try to save face from a failed relationship? We know Phil isn't exactly good with his money and spends it on the dumbest things where more money = better, which is why the escort saga was so damn believable (RIP). So who's to say he wouldn't shell out a few thousand dollars to a russian bride agency?
6) She's undoxable dood!!
In Phil's mind, doxing is the same as googling. I don't believe for a second that she has no social media. However, we know that in different parts of the world, people use different social media. For example, in China, people use Weibo or Wechat instead of Facebook usually. In Brazil, for the longest time, people used Orkut (RIP). In Russia one might use VK. Maybe Phil thinks that if someone uses the Cyrillic alphabet instead of roman/latin letters, they're impossible to google, therefore dox. If you can't understand what you're reading, then it's the same as it not existing. This would also fit Phil's constant semantics game. 'She doesn't have [american/mainstream] social media *snort*"
7) Phil has gouty fat butt
Get real, no woman would date Phil. If this really is a naïve child, a parent would intervene because of the age difference, the cross country move, the sudden decision to move at all after 3 dates. Leanna was different because they had been internet dating for a while before packing up and moving in together. She's not a hobo because she has a videogame system. She's not going to lug that around if she is homeless. Phil is a scummy disgusting manchild who readily admits that as soon as his soulmate gets there, she has to clean out his ex-fiancée's office, clean his house, cook for him and then stay the hell out of his mancave. No woman, not even a broken halfway house adolescent girl would date someone like this.
I rest my case