Which are the best foreign dating sites for Americans looking to move abroad?

Genuine question about the best foreign dating sites for Americans looking to move abroad — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. Everything I have read about dating sites for americans skips straight past the payoff.

For context I am mostly comparing free platforms rather than anything niche. The thing people underrate about dating sites for americans is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

If you have used dating sites for americans, these are the bits I care about:

• Treat your first dating sites for americans profile as a draft, because the time it costs punishes lazy ones
• Check what dating sites for americans does about actually getting anywhere before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give dating sites for americans a fortnight of daily use before calling the effort-to-result ratio a dealbreaker

Anyone with a recent the best foreign dating sites for Americans looking to move abroad story, please jump in.

I read CindyLou's reply on dating sites for americans and same experience on dating sites for americans: I gave it six weeks before the hours-to-dates ratio got tiresome. What changed my results on dating sites for americans was treating the effort-to-result ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across free platforms, and dating sites for americans sits mid-table.

There is no version of dating sites for americans where the return on the hours sorts itself out without you doing something. Nobody warns you that the time it costs on dating sites for americans scales with how many people are online at your hours. Most of the noise about dating sites for americans comes from people measuring the effort-to-result ratio over far too short a window. That is my read on dating sites for americans, and others here clearly disagree.

I keep DatingFly open as a control while testing dating sites for americans — useful for judging the payoff honestly.

Yes, and I would add that actually getting anywhere on dating sites for americans gets worse the longer you stay.

The pattern I see with dating sites for americans is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Either way, the hours-to-dates ratio is the thing I would test first on dating sites for americans.

Seconding this, because on dating sites for americans the honest answer is that the effort-to-result ratio varies enormously by area. Honestly, the time it costs was less of a problem on dating sites for americans than the sheer time it ate.

Most of the noise about dating sites for americans comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window. For the members answering here, the dating sites for americans experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. Either way, the effort-to-result ratio is the thing I would test first on dating sites for americans.

This matches what I found with dating sites for americans, where the effort-to-result ratio is exactly where it falls down. I judge dating sites for americans by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

For the crowd on this board, the dating sites for americans experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else. I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across no-payment dating sites, and dating sites for americans sits mid-table.

I read Diane_KY's reply on dating sites for americans and that has not been my experience of dating sites for americans, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. I judge dating sites for americans by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

I keep two accounts running to compare the time it costs across free dating apps, and dating sites for americans sits mid-table. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on dating sites for americans than the sheer time it ate. Happy to answer follow-ups on dating sites for americans if that helps.

Anyone comparing dating sites for americans on the hours-to-dates ratio should probably add Datewander to the list.