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Was one particular location better than another in terms of selection? I am finding that the post-college crowd here, in general is not necessarily suitable to my personality. This isn't the case if I look for people in other (and often larger ) cities to the far north of me.
I think each site has it's own personality, but what that personality is varies by location.
Most sites, even if they are pay, let you browse profiles without joining. So you can look at who is on which site in your area, what type of people.
Where I live, it's like this:
OKCupid = the main site, very liberal and educated, skews heavily to ppl in their 20s, but lots of other people too. Good matching algorithm.
Plenty of Fish = second most popular, skews more working class
Match = moderately conservative people, more of them over 30 or 40 I think
Craigslist = mostly for hookups with unusual wants, e.g people looking for 3ways or trans people, etc. But if you are into that, it's good. A friend of mine met an awesome trans woman and they like each other a lot. There are also some non-unusual people -- I know two who met there and got married.
I moved from a smaller city of 800k to one of 3 million.
In the first city, most of the women in my age range (25-37) were unattractive, overweight, and had kids. In addition, there were very few women in general on the sites. So, it was useless for me, as I have no kids and am in shape.
The larger city I moved to has so many more women using online dating in my age range. Many are attractive, have no kids, have careers, and are educated.
I moved from Central Jersey to Denver - I just fit in better here. My dating options are much wider and more interesting. The pickings for someone like me were very slim in my hometown, though the population density was probably similar. The number of dates where I felt the urge to stab myself in the leg under the table to distract myself from the horror is also significantly lower.
I've done online dating on both coasts and I'd say the east coast has been MUCH better for me.
The west coast (in the area I was living in) was filled with guys who just wanted to hang out at the beach, get drunk and smoke weed. Rarely could they hold a conversation and they were generally only looking for hookups while completely lying about wanting something long term. Many had children they neglected to mention (sometimes multiple children by multiple women) and still considered themselves childless because they weren't in their kids lives much.
I think the east coast is much pickier on looks because there are sooo many women available, but I have met a lot of pretty neat people as friends using OKcupid and POF. I met the guy I'm seeing now on OKC, but I also met a few people who I literally wanted to run away from. I
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