The biggest problem with tinder, at the moment, seems to be people using the "passport" system. They pretend to be local, but really they're hundreds/thousands of miles away. I wish that was more explicit and obvious.
Yeah tell me about it :p I live in Norway and about the only people I regularly match with are people from South America. And in a way that’s neat, they are nice people and I want to go there some day. But I really wish I’d be shown to more people near me so I can actually meet someone IRL and have it turn into something meaningful. I cannot afford to travel right now and even if I could, COVID-19 is still making it difficult.
All I want is to meet some women, hang out with them and find someone that we both enjoy being around each other.
I’ve had very few matches with people actually from my country in the past year and in every year prior.
I’ve been to a grand total of one date in the past year. And I’ve had proper text conversations with maybe a handful of people from my country at most.
Maybe it’s a sign that I should earn some money that would allow me to leave this country for somewhere else, idk.
One thing is for sure, Tinder is just not my arena in this country. So I’ve uninstalled it for like the 20th time. We’ll see how long it goes before I install it again, so I can continue meaninglessly swiping on people from my country that are not going to even see my profile, just like it always is save for a few people a year.
But it has to be said I've had far more meetups with tinder than anything else. Here in Helsinki it seems to be pretty popular. Maybe I stand out because I'm a foreigner, wearing a kilt, but I guess I've been quite lucky in that I get matches pretty frequently.
(Though I go through phases where I ignore it for a few months, then use it for a few hours every day in a week.)
It's a good feature, you can match with people a few weeks before going to another destination or on holiday etc.
I've certainly matched people who are far away, despite no desire to do so.
Other times, people in poorer countries are trying to match with people in richer countries. Think of Tinder as acting as a broker in a situation that sometimes people call "mail order bride."