Chopped up your post a bit to concentrate on the main points I want to address.
I find that London gets a lot of unjustified negativity regarding women so I wanted to share my experience and maybe provide an alternate perspective.
A bit about me: moved here few yrs ago, middle aged guy, below avg height, reasonably good body, not bad face. Good job but don't talk about it or buy pricey clothes or accessories and don't go to clubs.
In my experience, the following methods give the best results in ascending order: street, workplace, Tinder.
Street: like you, I tried the street pickup thing but the ROI was horrible. Getting a number is actually not that hard (maybe 1 in 4 number close rate), if anything the British politeness works against you in this case because girls will sooner give you their number rather than tell you they're not interested but then it goes nowhere. Of the dozens of girls I've street approached, I've closed one.
Workplace: the PUA orthodoxy is to never shit where you eat, but everyone has their own appetite for risk and it's worked for me. Have closed a total of 4 women from my jobs, 3 with the sex happening at work itself. I don't brag openly about my lifestyle but girls have a pretty good sense of who they're dealing with so don't usually push too hard for a relationship. Have had one exception who tried to make my life difficult (she just wanted a relationship and was upset I wouldn't commit) but managed to smooth it over and we're still friends.
Tinder: London runs on Tinder in my experience. I've tracked the girls I've been successful with in a spreadsheet and I'm at around 100 in 3 years. As stated I wouldn't call myself overly attractive but maybe I photograph well because several of these have been "gimmes": the girl basically texts that she wants sex and I get her an uber over to mine or go to hers, almost impossible to fuck it up. My uber rating actually took a hit because I was getting a ubers for muslim girls and the uber drivers, also muslim, weren't too happy about what was obviously happening (a lot of them question the girls in the car: where are you going, is it a friend bla bla). One was visiting from Malaysia and showed up in a hijab, we're friends on FB and now she's happily married.
Now, to your point about English women, you're right. But there's an easy way to get around this. Just ignore white women and specifically white English women. Sounds harsh but in my experience they are the most entitled, unpleasant, delusional cohort around. It's just not worth it. London has tons of extremely attractive non-white women. That's not to say that you can't land yourself a white English girl but the ROI isn't so great and for various reasons which I won't go into here the kinds of white women, particularly white English, who are in London are not likely to be positive experiences.
I could go on for days but will leave it here.
Quote: (02-12-2019 08:24 AM)Acquire Wrote:
London, London, London.
As someone said in a previous post, nearly everything good about London is foreign.
I noticed something, and my girlfriend (astute as ever) also noticed this, and made a point of it. These London daygamers seemed to only be capable of picking up girls who were foreign.
Even guys from other bits of the UK who I know slay it with chicks in other parts of England will say that London girls are ridiculously rude and all-around difficult.
There are exceptions, of course.
I'll just throw out a quick query for you lot: How many of you have ever met with a girl from London off of a dating app, let alone it actually resulting in anything? If you have, how hot was she and was she under 25?
I'll leave it there for now.