Seattle has had this problem for a long time
[QUOTE=HelloThar;7552208]I see the same thing with dating around here. Low effort, terrible communication, high entitlement. You have to bend over backwards and lower your standards dramatically for people that likely don't deserve a fraction of the attention they get. I honestly think it's the area itself and the demographics, especially when you see other cities have nowhere near the same problems we do.[/QUOTE]I'd argue that Seattle has had this problem, in one form or another, for like forty years.
There are lots of little cliques here and a lot of girls don't play outside those cliques. So if you are on the outside looking in there is no good way to get inside.
I never realized this until I spent a winter in LA and had more pussy than I had in the previous five in Seattle. And better. Some of that is because every sort-of-hawt girl decides she needs to go to LA to be a movie star at some point and a lot of them land there and end up underemployed and often bored.
I do think the shitty civilian dating market makes the providing also shitty.