<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a whole new group of friends through one of my girlfriends. I've known about this group for a while as her boyfriend is a part, but never met them as they weren't really my kind of people. They're very rural, country, drive big trucks, go fishing, have keg parties, 'bro' kind of guys. I'm very artsy, big-city, borderline hipster and I just saw no point in trying to get to know them as we'd have nothing in common.

But over the past two weeks I've hung out with this group. We play on a bar league sports team together, go out for drinks and have had house parties we all attended. I started crushing on one of them. He [27] was very much my type, even though he's actually not my type at all. Cocky, sarcastic, hilarious and loud with a gap in his teeth (swoon) and a ginger bear (double swoon). My best friend told me not to bother - he was way too different from any guy I've ever had interest in or dated. That kind of made me even more intrigued - as I've had plenty of failed relationships with punk rockers, tattoo artists, musicians and the like over the past 7 years. 

Over this last weekend, he and I were at the same party with this new group of people. It went into the wee hours of the morning and I invited him back to my place. He agreed, we went back, talked, did the nasty, talked more and that was that. 

We have talked since, and I will be seeing him every week until late-July. I'm wondering if it's worth trying to make something out of it. Or if we're so different that it might just be a bad idea.
<bot>: how different is TOO different when it comes to dating someone? I've only every really stuck to people I've had a lot in common with. Are there any success stories here of polar opposites working out?