Craigslist worked for me: or how even I got a girlfriend
I have been single for most of my life. Since I moved away from White Rock and my grade four girlfriend Natalie, I’ve been like Hugh Grant in About A Boy, single and alone with only myself to worry about. I went through high school and most of university unattached, and despite efforts to couple up I remained single with a reliability that weatherman lust after.
I’ve turned my single status into a university press writing gig, that lead to me becoming a freelance journalist, as I wrote about my always embarrasing efforts to find myself a girlfriend. It’s lead me to try blind dates, internet dating, speed dating and pretty much every ridiculous concept under the sun. Earlier this year I even set up an apointment with a local executive dating serivce after I saw their ads around town and in the Skytrain station [jks]. I bailed from that adventure when they wanted $1,500 to find me true love.
Having done internet dating, through Lavalife, I wan’t putting much faith into my latest attempt which consisted of an ad on Craigslist’s Vancouver site [clv] that I posted on the end of November. I got a few replies but only one person continued to show any interest after more than a few emails. I had decided to give it a shot because pretty much every media outlet in the universe has been showing CL with praise for the past year plus, and I thought I’d at least give it a shot.
After exchanging emails for over a month Lydia and I agreed to meet on New Year’s Eve, and she was the one who talked me into going (or attempting to go) to the Railway Club that night [mbv]. We didn’t end up in the club but the night went pretty good anyway and now at the age of 27 I have a girlfriend.
So thank you Craigslist. You’re worth all the hype that Wired gives you and all the money eBay threw at you.
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Glad to hear Craigslist is good for girlfriends, and I hope it works out!
I enjoy reading the Craigslist bikes for sale listings, but half the value is the entertainment of fantasy prices for some of the bikes. $110 for your department store bike? No thank you, sir!
Oh dear. There goes the dozen posts a day we’ve come to love and expect. But we’re happy for you, J.
CL has a different vibe from the commercial dating sites and some people can let their personality come through (while other listings are altogether too brief to get anything out of). It feels like in the personals, the readership is a narrow subset of the greater CL community confined to techies and arties. Just my feeling of it.
Congrats! I think this deserves a cross post!
Congrats. Maybe I should try that.
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i don’t know you, and you don’t know me. but lydia is one of my best friends. i adore her to the moon and back….so treat her like the princess she is.
Well I’ll take that as concern for Lydia as opposed to a cyber threat of knee cap busting. Yes indeed…