GUY CAN’T FIND GF FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE INSISTS THEY HAVE TO STAY NEAR HIM

Do you think is important your BF/GF stay near you?

I recently got to know an acquaintance whose actively on dating apps for a serious GF, but only if the potential match stays near him (he stays East, for example, so the potential match would ideally stay in East area too)

Heard he’s been on the dating apps for years with no luck, so I feel this factor itself is significantly diminishing his chances, or maybe it’s other factors I don’t know about. I don’t want to appear overly intrusive on this hence here I take my thoughts to the internet.

is it important to you a potential match must stay near you? Any experiences to share? Thoughts?

I feel is a small issue, so long can stay over each other’s house sometimes. Or rent out together, and when marry will stay together anyway? Or am I missing something?

Netizens’ comments

1. It’s a huge plus but it’s not a dealbreaker. Wouldn’t consider Boon Lay fun to get to if you stay in Pasir Ris.
2. I think it depends on the other party. I had a partner that stays in boon lay (right beside NTU) and I stay in Punggol. It wasn’t easy for me and she’s your typical tiktok addict that follows tiktok trend like “if he want he would”. So everytime I can’t send her home, we will end up fighting. Tough relationship 🥲 sometimes I spend 2 to 3 hours just to send her home and I didn’t even complain.
   Now I have a new partner that stays near me. Definitely make things easier for us cause if we were to settle down, we can pick somewhere in between and convenient to visit my parents or the in-laws
3. I would date a girl even if she lived on Tekong. Lol.
4. My husband told me that if I had stayed very far away from him, he didn’t think it would have worked out haha. He has this old fashioned view that he must send me home after dates (he did most of the time even though I told him no need). I still can’t tell if he was joking or dead serious cause I can imagine him being defeated by distance while obstinately insisting that he must send me home
5. No.
   People have the weirdest arbitrary requirements when it comes to dating (long term rs specifically). Requirements that have absolutely no impact on the compatibility/quality of the relationship long term.
   “I cannot accept if my partner wears slippers to town”
   I’ll always call people out on BS like that, you mean if an otherwise perfect partner (I mean 10/10 by your own standards) shows up interested in dating you and their only flaw is that they would from time to time decide to wear slippers to town you would reject them?
   If no, why is this even a thing? Don’t be stupid, pick a better hill to die on.
6. Some people don’t really like to travel just to meet their partner. It depends on what you want. it can be tiring to travel 1hours+ just to meet. but find things to do during the travelling time so that you won’t feel that is a chore to travel