![]() I continued searching, and matching closer people here and there, but every time I went online, her profile would catch my eye. Being the sometimes lazy Millennial I am, I decided against it. She was 45 miles away, which meant in traffic, about an hour and a half drive. I was getting ready to message her when I saw where she lived. Her profile was the portrait of a woman who was a free spirit, with a kind heart and a warm soul. Tell me that doesn't scream sweet rays of sunshine. The profile picture was her standing in a sunflower field. Immediately this profile popped up in my matches. So on a whim one day, I decided to move my distance up to 50 miles, still not quite ready to actually date someone that far away. Let's face it: Where people live represents a part of their personality, and the types of personalities I was matching with were not right for me. I found, however, that this limited my options to a certain type of person I was seeing the same traits over and over again. ![]() If their profiles showed cities that took me more than 30 minutes to get to, I didn't bother messaging them. ![]() I refused to match up with anyone that lived more than 20 miles away. So you'll find that most people in these types of areas will set the distance in their dating profiles to no more than 10 or 20 miles to keep from matching people “too far away.” It's first world problems for sure, but we live in lazy times. If you're dating someone on the other side of town, or in the DC metro areas case, maybe a state or district away, staying the night at their place can mean an extra-long trip to work the next day. It's true, traffic in the DC area is an absolute disaster, so when dating, someone even 10 miles away, can take an hour to get to. A place where driving just a few miles at the wrong time of day, can mean sitting in your car for one or two hours. I live in the suburbs of the nation's capital.
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