You're viewing this as a phenomenon exclusive to Europe, meanwhile the real answer is what you're experiencing is city living vs living in an island (high-stress environment vs low-stress environment)
It's easy to live in a city and be invisible to everyone because they are all high-serotonin and see life as a blur, you have to put in a lot more effort to become 'valuable'
Now that you're in a Spanish island, you experience life as it is designed, being around low-stress men who are nicer and notice all kinds of woman more.
This is not a matter of 'Preference' for European men, rather this is just you experiencing how different men behave when in a stressful city vs non-stressful tropical climate
In big stressful southeastern european cities men still prefer women of average neoteny. Only in northern europe have I observed the phenomenon.
If you dig hard enough you'll see many reports of women of neotenous races being able to land males leagues above them in northwest europe but being invisible to men in southern europe. Attractiveness is subjective (is dependent on location).
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