[Grishnakh]

>if you want females you should pursue situations with a gender surplus of females, and this distinctly excludes online dating.

Yes, I realize that, however the venues for this are very limited in my experience; I already listed out everything I could think of.

Usually, when this discussion comes up, people will recommend things like "find groups that do things you like, and you'll meet women you like there!" Sorry, but I'm not likely to meet any desirable and single women at a Linux or programming group. And I do attend some outdoors groups, but IME there the women are generally much older than me (and I'm not young either). I'm not really sure what the single female 30-45 crowd does in the DC area, but it's not hiking. From my limited dating experience in this area, their general free-time activity appears to be hanging out with their female friends and complaining that they can't find a husband while their biological clock is running out so they're going to start on IVF from a donor.

[Grishnakh]

I see I got an upvote here, so just in case anyone's interested in a funny anecdote about the IVF comment, I met a 43yo woman on Tinder a few months ago in the DC area. We talked on the phone before meeting in person, and one of the first things she told me after we got started chatting was how she had already tried one round of IVF...

Dating at this age really sucks.