SW15
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Covid is going to make every form of game more difficult until about 2022. This will be the worst 2 year stretch for the mating environment ever. 1918 had a healthier mating environment entering that pandemic as compared to 2000-2019. There was a degradation of the mating environment from 2000 to 2019. 2000 was no great environment either.I think that like office buildings, covid is going to accelerate the decline of the hypernachronistic nightclub scene as well. it was never clear why people even continued to go to clubs after online dating completely destroyed the meat market aspect of them . it was just something that you did because you felt like you were supposed to do that on a weekend but barely anyone even talked to girls. It was like a way to hide alcoholism. Still an exception for vacation destinations.
It was the swipe apps that changed bars/clubs more drastically. If you think back to roughly 2004-2012, when dating websites were reasonably popular, there was still a decent nightlife scene. Near the end of that period, women were getting their inboxes flooded more on the POF and OKC sites of the world. Realize that the app era just is an acceleration of a lot of the bad stuff than happened in the website era.
Swiping on a smartphone and texting is easier than using a laptop and reading through word intensive profiles. That's why the website era didn't put as much of a dent into nightlife as apps.
I like your point about vacation destinations. If I think about 2023, Las Vegas will have solid nightlife. Same with Miami and Honolulu. San Diego might be ok if they can handle the ratios there, which are always bad because of the military presence. In Metro Phoenix, its suburbs of Scottsdale and Tempe have most of the nightlife. Scottsdale draws more the traveler scene.
Millennials and Gen Z are also kind of lazy and do not have good people skills. Nightlife is something that requires better people skills than app swiping. Women don't need to stand in bars to find sex anymore and they can get more attention on Instagram and the apps anyway.