PUA is ALIVE AND WILL NEVER DIE!!!!
PUA and its denizens are exactly as "good" or "bad" as the locals want it to be. It can be a well-scrubbed family park for cold approaches, or a temporary "bad part of town" where you can go for a bit of sin ... the choice is yours.
The townies draw that line, wherever we go. The fine upstanding church-going citizens of Anytown U.S.A. always look with justified suspicion on these weird people showing up in their town. The PUA's will be here today and gone without a trace tomorrow. PUA's have no stake in the local community. YOU NEED MONEY TO GET WOMEN? The top PUA's have no fixed address, are unemployed NEET's, they look like they just got out of prison yesterday, they certainly don't play by your rules, and they've come for the express purpose of getting your women. Those guys are talking mighty sweet to every girl that comes down the street better keep an eye on your girlfriend! And then there are those sluts in the local strip joint!
The suspicion is mutual, for good reason. If you're a PUA the locals have no reason to treat you fairly (You're there to hang and bang their women) surely the cops could find some way to stop your antics!
The PUA scene is a place where a person can go if he's lost most of the resources society likes a person to have. Try to be anything else when you've lost your moorings ... maybe you're not content settling down in one place, maybe you have a troubled past, maybe the road is better than whatever you've left behind, maybe you just aren't cut out for the nine-to-five life. All those things could be viewed as signs of a free spirit, or they could be marks of someone who's just not fit to be among decent people. It all depends which side of the fence you're looking from. So a PUA needs some rules to be able to get along in such company: don't nose into anyone else's business, don't screw up anyone else's game, and when the cars leave the lot all debts are paid. And you need to band together to protect yourselves. FIRST RULE OF GAME: don't give 'em your real name (after all, there was that little disagreement with those sluts in the last town just a few miles away), and stand by your fellow PUA's (shout 'Hey Chad' and rowdy locals quickly find that you have more and bigger and meaner friends on your side).
It's us against the world, and it'll always be that way, so deal with it.