Respectfully, Haley_D, that has not been my experience at all. you cannot really talk about local online without talking about the catchment.
How many people are actually near you matters more for local online than any feature list.
Coverage in your area is what separates a good week from a wasted one with local online. I'd put the practical side above almost everything else when it comes to local online. I judge local online almost entirely on coverage in your area now.
Has anyone else found that with local online? Anyway, that is my read on local online dating sites than the big global ones.
A friend pointed me at over on Rendate when I asked about local online and it held up.