How to Change Your City on Plenty of Fish

Go to My Profile, tap Edit profile, and change Location under Basics. Check that your country, state, city and zip or postal code are all correct, then save, log out and log back in. You may still see people from your old area for a while, and POF has no way to change your country before you travel.

1. Go to My Profile.
2. Tap Edit profile.
3. Under Basics, change Location.
4. Check the country, state, city and zip or postal code. All four need to be right.
5. Save.
6. Log out, then log back in.

The zip or postal code is the easy one to skip when the city already looks right, so check it too. The log out and back in at the end is part of the fix, not an optional extra.

For a while after the change, you may still see people from where you used to live. That is expected, and it passes.

In the meantime, be sensible about who gets your time. A woman three hours away is not a date this week, however good her page is. Put your likes and your first lines into women who live where you live now, and let the old area fade out on its own.

Do not keep switching the setting back and forth to see what happens, either. Set it once, correctly, and give it a few days.

POF has no way to change your country before you travel. So you cannot line up conversations in another country ahead of a trip.

Set the city you actually live in, and change it when you have actually moved. A location you are not in wastes her time as well as yours. She replies expecting a man nearby and then finds out he is somewhere else, which is a poor start to anything.

For a short work trip or a holiday, leave your home city alone. The apps do their best work where you live, because that is where a first date can turn into a second and a third.

A move resets your local pool. The women you were talking to back home are now a long drive away, and the women near you have never seen you.

That is better news than it sounds. A new city means a lot of women seeing you for the first time. And a move is a story. "I just moved here and I still have not found a decent coffee" is an easy thing for her to answer, and women who like their city tend to enjoy showing it off.

So finish up with the old area honestly. If a conversation back home was going somewhere, tell her you have moved. A long drive for the right person can be worth it, but she deserves to know before she plans around you.

The first couple of weeks after a move are the time to fill the top of the funnel. Like more women than you normally would, as long as they are women you would genuinely take out, and write to the ones who like you back that same day.

Use the move in your first lines. Ask her for one thing: the best tacos near you, a bar that is not full of tourists, a park worth a Sunday. A woman who answers has already half-planned your first date, because you can simply suggest going there together. Keep a note of every place women recommend. Five spots you have been told about are five easy first dates.

Keep it steady rather than frantic. Half an hour a day for ten days does more than five hours on your first Saturday. The apps reward regular use, and a man who likes his whole new city in one sitting mostly teaches the app that he likes everyone.

Do not wait until you feel settled, either. The weeks right after a move, when you are exploring anyway, are the easiest time to suggest a drink at a place neither of you has tried.

Your page should say you live here now. If every photo is from the old city, with its skyline or its beach, a woman in the new one will read you as a visitor passing through. Add one or two photos from your new neighborhood as soon as you have them.

Mention the move in a line of your bio, too. It gives her something to ask about, and it explains why you are keen to try new places.

Then keep the location current. If you move again, or split your time between two cities, update it when you actually change where you live, and check all four parts of the address each time.