I am a senior in undergraduate and am moving to NYC after college in a few months. I met a guy who was visiting a mutual friend of mine at my college and we talked all night (he was pretty shy but we clicked). He goes to school in NYC and will also be living there so he said once I go up to the city, to let him know and he would take me on a date. He asked for my snapchat 🚩(One of Gen Z's main form of communication) and we added each other. He was not pressuring at all, the same religion, comes from a sturdy family, is well-educated, and no red flags when it comes to his social media presence.

A few days later, his friend and I were talking about him one night and he was saying his friend is super shy but was into me and for me to reach out. I stated that I will not reach out and it does not matter if he's shy -- he will reach out if he wants to. I get a message from him the next morning letting me know again that he will take me out when I go up and that his friend said I was going up soon (false, he was just drunk telling him that). We started snapping back and forth but he wasn't saying anything of value so I left him on opened/read. I snapped him a couple days later while I was out with friends and I left him on read for a second time and he immediately said (he was drunk I think) "don't leave me opened respond! I want to see your face you're so pretty!" He also mentioned again he will take me out when I go up. I don't know if I was being crass but I basically mentioned him flying me out to see me sooner and he told me to look at flights but he is on a budget since he just quit his job and went to 3 dinners that week (I don't know if he is living on his own means since he's also an undergraduate). I literally asked him if he's ever thought about budgeting or dieting. I also asked him if he knew how to manage his funds since he's a finance major 🤡 and that the flight fare was not even bad. He suggested we wait until I go up there for when I look at apartments. Since then, we've been barely snapping back and forth after 20 hour intervals with no conversation of value.

What do we do in situations like these where communication is a blank space? I have thought about just leaving him on opened/read and leaving it be? Or just give him my phone number and say I'm not into snapchatting and he can text me from his number so I can just let him know when I go up. My time and attention is precious and I do not want to waste it.