Is the farmers dating site actually useful if you live in the suburbs?

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CindyLou
Joined: Apr 2024
Messages: 479
#1

I have been going round in circles on the farmers dating site actually useful if you live in the suburbs and could use some real experience. If the hours-to-dates ratio is bad on dating site for useful, nothing else about it matters.

I have about a month of using the free-tier sites behind me and not much to show for it. There is no version of dating site for useful where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

The parts of dating site for useful I keep getting stuck on:

  • Give dating site for useful a fortnight of daily use before calling the hours-to-dates ratio a dealbreaker
  • Treat your first dating site for useful profile as a draft, because the effort-to-result ratio punishes lazy ones
  • Message within a day of matching — on dating site for useful that window closes fast
  • Do not move off dating site for useful into private messaging until the payoff looks handled
  • Compare dating site for useful against free platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about the farmers dating site actually useful if you live in the suburbs.

Jenny_K
Joined: Apr 2023
Messages: 967
#2

Not my read at all: for members outside cities, dating site for useful was the only thing that produced anything. For singles in small towns, the dating site for useful experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else.

I judge dating site for useful by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. The thing people underrate about dating site for useful is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

Justin Case
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 425
#3

I will push back here, because dating site for useful worked fine for me and the effort-to-result ratio was never the issue.

If the payoff is your main worry with dating site for useful, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on dating site for useful scales with how many people are online at your hours.

KirraC
Joined: Sep 2024
Messages: 1196
#4

@Justin Case makes a fair point about dating site for useful, but that has not been my experience of dating site for useful, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

The pattern I see with dating site for useful is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Not saying dating site for useful suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

The short version for dating site for useful:

  • Test the payoff on dating site for useful deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on dating site for useful
  • Photos with other people in them do worse on dating site for useful than you would guess
  • Ask rural daters what dating site for useful is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived

One smaller option worth comparing on the return on the hours is Turndate — different pool, same free messaging as dating site for useful.

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IsobelR
Joined: Mar 2025
Messages: 506
#5

Reading this back, my dating site for useful notes say almost the same thing about the payoff.

I judge dating site for useful by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. The thing people underrate about dating site for useful is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city.

I have seen souldate.site, datewander.site, rendate.site recommended for dating site for useful, though I have not tested them properly.

TiffanyR
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 747
#6

Respectfully no — complaints about the return on the hours on dating site for useful usually come from people who gave it a week. For rural daters, the dating site for useful experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across the free end of the market, and dating site for useful sits mid-table. You can work around the payoff on dating site for useful, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Anyone comparing dating site for useful on the hours-to-dates ratio should probably add Ezhookups to the list.

Derek Chang
Joined: Dec 2022
Messages: 1053
#7

Picking up TiffanyR's point about the return on the hours, this matches what I found with dating site for useful, where the return on the hours is exactly where it falls down. There is no version of dating site for useful where the hours-to-dates ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with dating site for useful, test it in the first week rather than the first month. The thing people underrate about dating site for useful is how much the payoff depends on your own city.

Derek77
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 1109
#8

Not my read at all: for rural daters, dating site for useful was the only thing that produced anything. Most of the noise about dating site for useful comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window.

The thing people underrate about dating site for useful is how much the time it costs depends on your own city. I judge dating site for useful by one thing now: whether the time it costs improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Take that as one data point on dating site for useful rather than a recommendation.

A smaller name people rarely mention in dating site for useful threads is Datedesire.

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