Broad Location Dating in practice.
An outward postcode gives useful scale
The letters and first number of a UK postcode can describe a workable part of a city or wider district without identifying an address.
That level is especially useful during discovery, when people need to judge travel rather than navigate to a meeting point.
Different cities need different notions of nearby
Crossing London can take longer than travelling between neighbouring towns elsewhere. Meaningful discovery should combine broad geography with local routes.
Location pages and nearby-town clusters can provide that context instead of applying one national radius to every place.
Availability completes the local picture
A broad area says where; a normal time window says whether. Both are necessary when adults have limited or irregular free time.
The combination can produce relevant discovery without continuous tracking or the false confidence of an exact distance badge.