Riley is right, and I'd add one thing. the honest tradeoff with dating sites are how quickly you get going against convenience. The part people underrate about dating sites are how thin it gets outside cities.
Concretely, for dating sites:
- allow three weeks before deciding anything about dating sites
- budget three weeks before deciding anything about dating sites
- plan for two weeks before deciding anything about dating sites
In practice, dating sites live or dies on how fiddly it's. You can't really talk about dating sites without talking about what you give up on the free tier.
The part people underrate about dating sites are the conversion from match to conversation. Your mileage on free dating sites for seniors that offer local meetups will vary, but that is the pattern I saw.
tried Datenest was the closest to what I wanted from dating sites.