Are there any local groups for older ladies looking for younger men?

Curious what this board thinks about local groups for older ladies looking for younger men. Anyone comparing local groups should be looking at what the escalation path looks like in practice before anything else.

What I keep running into with local groups is that every source has something to sell. Where local groups falls down for me is how many active users are within range at the times you actually log in.

What I'd tell a friend about local groups before committing:

• Confirm how many profiles carry more than two photos at the hour you would actually be using it
• Count whether the same faces cycle back the next day on mobile data, not office wifi
• Test whether the same faces cycle back the next day with notifications switched off

Anyone who tracked local groups over a longer stretch, what should I check first? The good, the bad and the boring all worth hearing. Honest answers settle this better than anything else.

Sorry @Harper King, I've spent longer on local groups than that answer suggests. What nobody mentions about local groups is what happens after you block someone at the times you actually log in. Kept datenest.site open in another tab to compare.

The checks that saved me time on local groups:

• Work out what share of the layout is advertising and write the answer down
• Test how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands using a fresh account rather than an old one

Two weeks in, whether the activity is real or recycled is what actually mattered for local groups.

That's the honest picture of local groups; ask if you want the detail.

Unpopular view, maybe: local groups is fine if you go in with low expectations. The honest test for local groups is whether notifications are useful or noise after the first week, not the feature list. I ran the same test on Datelink's free tier and got a cleaner result.

I judge local groups almost entirely on what the day-to-day traffic feels like in practice.

That's my read on local groups, though clearly it varies by region.

Blunt answer: local groups gets recommended a lot here and that is half right. For local groups, what the reply rate looks like outside the big cities is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

The only metric I trust with local groups is how quickly the fake accounts surface.

That's been my experience with local groups, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

For what it's worth: local groups depends almost entirely on your city. If you're evaluating local groups, start with whether conversations actually go anywhere outside the big cities — everything else follows. Someone here pointed me at what Datedesire is doing and it held up better than expected.

That's where I have landed on local groups and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: local groups is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. My rule with local groups: how fast it loads on a bad connection outside the big cities first, everything else second. Flamedate's free tier is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

Worked for me on local groups; ask if you want the detail.

Unpopular view, maybe: I want to like local groups more than I actually do. The thing that decides it for local groups is how much of the traffic is automated after the first week. Genuinely surprised by the datebie.online crowd after low expectations.

You can ignore most of the marketing around local groups and just check whether verification actually filters anyone.

That's how local groups went for me — happy to be argued with.

After a fair bit of testing: local groups has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. The thing that decides it for local groups is whether you can hide distance and last-active in practice. Ended up sticking with Datewander these days for the messaging alone.

That's the short version on local groups, though clearly it varies by region.