I think in the major cities OLD is a bit better due to the younger population and more career minded individuals who might actually be busy and using it to help supplement. granted, most of the women are still damaged goods though or high maintenance snobs who scares men off IRL. In this region of FL for example though most of the women on there are damaged. They're mostly divorced and single moms. The bigger cities they have less baggage and career.The fact of the matter is that OLD is not the equal of social interactions in the real world. You are never going to achieve the same level of success as the guys on here that don’t use it, as rule of their life.
Keep using it if you want, but the fact remains that you’re using your “wingman” to attract women for you. That’s a weakness in you, a dishonesty and lack of actual in person communication, and is not contributive to the myth of the effectiveness of OLD. If they were high quality women, they wouldn’t need OLD, because every swinging d!ck and cuck would be giving them attention. She wouldn’t need the validation of the guys on OLD, because her social circle outside of it gives her what she wants and needs. OLD is the last ditch effort for SMV craters (the older women you’re talking about, because the hot younger ones aren’t using it, she’s squandered her best years, and even is she’s still hot most men, including me, want the hot 18-20 year olds) and neurotic emotional basket cases.
OLD, like I’ve said in other threads, is the same as hiding from the real world. It’s an excuse not to live in reality in the vicinity of real women. You’ll never be able to convince me it’s powerful, because it isn’t.
Overall OLD has gone downhill the last 8 or so years. IMO simply due to everyone having a smartphone now it's just too cluttered. You also have men outnumbering women like 15 to 1 as well. Around here that's what it is. The women even tell me how bombarded they get from old pervs and such. IMO that scares them off and makes them take it less seriously and then you come on here and read guys saying how they got ghosted. That was a term you didn't hear about 8 years ago like you do as often now.
Overall for most areas though OLD I think is a waste.
Also, with OLD you have no previous face to face interactions. At least IRL meeting someone in a social setting, work, or friends you have an idea of what their personality is like. On OLD you just have the keyboard. When you go and meet they end up totally different than you expect. That's why you don't hear about many marriages or long term relationships from OLD. The relationships that I do see long term though are typically lardball, butt ugly people or fat arses because they meet another ugly lardball and that's all they can get on OLD or IRL is a fellow 230lb landwhale.