Turned 30 few months back and only started dating around 2/3 years ago. Went through a 5 year dry period and came out of it to quickly find girlschase, pua.. and, finally (thankfully) TRP.

However, through those 5 years I struggled massively with online dating. That was until I uploaded a decent picture. I've used that pic for a couple years now and I've probably slept with around 20 women. I'd say most around hb6, with a few hb8.

I recently moved to Thailand and, well, there are many many more attractive women on Tinder and just walking around than back home in UK. I never dated English women anyway, was always international (latin, indonesian, etc).

I've become quite disgruntled recently because I've got a tonne of matches but most of them just fade off really quickly. They stop replying pretty quickly if I ask for their line id (popular chat in SEA) or invite them out.

I know there is a shit-tonne of filtering to do. I have slept with someone in the first couple weeks and been on a few dates, but I'm wondering if I'm just completely wasting my time with Tinder and avoiding the hard knocks of cold approach. I'm seeing cute, in shape 8s everywhere I go. The abundance is real and in my face, and yet I've become so accustom to online dating that I just lean on it for all dating purposes.

Having said that, I did start salsa dancing back in uk and managed to hook a hot italian chick for a while, so I'll definitely be going this route again -- they have latin dance pool parties here which I will have to get involved with.

..and yet, day after day, I am fucking around on Tinder, and I feel almost paralysed to date any other way. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Is it night and day when it comes to Tinder vs real life game?