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>One more factor is that I have found that people who live in the midwest and east coast tend to operate on a referral system. If they have a friend of a friend who knows to seek out a hiking buddy, whom you meet, then you'll find someone, but otherwise they're not going to go out of their way to check the local classifieds. This is partly out of necessity: meeting up with random people brings in the possibility of associating with blacks, which vastly increases the chances that they will get robbed/raped/murdered. When people live out west, they forget about that. Since there are a lot fewer blacks, they let their guard down, and they become more willing to seek out random people from online meetup sites and places like that.
