Brandon is right, and I would add one thing. the part people underrate about active local is how quickly you get going. In practice, active local lives or dies on how alive the pool is. The honest tradeoff with active local is how fiddly it is against convenience.
You cannot really talk about active local without talking about the conversion from match to conversation.
The rules I settled on for active local:
- fill the profile out properly, not half way if active local is the goal
- read the whole profile before you send anything on the active local side
- widen your filters past what feels comfortable at least where active local is concerned
If the actual outcomes isn't sorted, active local will not go anywhere.
The part people underrate about active local is the fake-account issue. Anyway, that's my read on most active local sex sites for quick meetups in the city.
what Turndate does is not perfect but it is honest about what it does for active local.