New-Angie wrote:
To divide people by continents is just stupid.
This here is to exchange and get to know each other and people do not have to be on the same continent for that, and if at all they want to meet each other in person, they can go to some airport, there are cheap flights to everywhere. It often takes more time to drive or trainride to the other end of your own country than to fly to some other country. And it sure is more expensive to go by bus to the next big city than to fly to some other country.
If you make subgroups, than with some reasonable standards like age or education or so, but the continent is just not important - its just a bit of ocean in between, so what?
For those who love travelling (including me), sure. But I met many people for whom a train ride of 2 hours is considered "far away".
Also, I do think for love other standards apply than for friendship. I can talk to a woman in Japan, South Africa or Australia daily if I want and we could be very good penfriends, even maybe have the odd visit. But if you are really in love, you want to see your lover frequently and not just once every half year. The flight to Japan may be affordable once in a 5 months or so, but do I want a girlfriend whom I can see just once every 5 months? It would definitely be not affordable to do it every two weeks, which most people prefer because they want to do all things together than lovers do (going out together, spending intimate moments together, going to an event together, etc - not just calling or emailing daily)
Also, unfortunately your low budget flights are not that easy whenever you leave Europe. Within Europe we indeed get connected to the rest of the continent very cheaply (but having emigrated multiple times and having to book last minute tickets for job interviews in the country I wanted to move to, I experienced those low budgets are often an illusion unless you plan the trip long in advance - a surprise visit to my girlfriend in for example Portugal would still be very expensive) but I seriously wonder how to visit someone in Australia or Brazil for less than half a month's salary. Hotel excluded, because during the early stages of dating you may prefer to not immediately let each other stay overnight ...
Last but not least, some people here (excluding me) are students on a low budget and cannot afford even those low budget flights, or simply find it too time consuming.
I don't mind to travel to some far away place, but many people do. Hence a split of this topic would be easy. Splitting per education would be a lot harder than splitting geographically because where are you going to divide (university level together, secondary school together, etc ??) + it indicates that one would find the level of education of core importance in his/her search for a lover. I think many people have other criteria than the specific degree of someone, educational field may be more important but this often collides with general interests.
A split of this topic is needed, I don't want to read through 200 pages to maybe find 1 or 2 single girls living in this part of the world (and then I am prepared to consider anyone in Eastern Europe, not just the country where I live). A first logical criteria to split this topic would be gender, then orientation, then if a further split is needed geography or age seem the most logical criteria to me.
But anyway, as none of the admins seems to read these posts, I guess it will stay jammed together in one hard-to-overview topic. Pity we cannot flag topics or posts so that admins can look into our proposals.
_________________
Do what Thou wilt shal be the whole of the Law.
Love is the Law, Love under Will. And...
every man and every woman is a star
(excerpt from The Book of the Law - Aleister Crowley)
"Od lo avda tikvateinu" (excerpt from the Israeli hymn)