How do y'all stay motivated with local chicks?

Been ghost past two years while drifting deeply into PPB (Had my third throuple, but V structured)

Still updating profiles, improving pics to create a story, and looksmaxxing like my life depends on it.. but every girl here in the states feels like a distraction holding me back from the grand prizes abroad.

All my same night lays come from spending the cost of a flight, and the few that are cheaper are girls I hope I'm not seen in public with (when you only wife baddies its hard to be seen at a Chipotle sitting across a 6).

"Don't go for 6's bro" = please refer to cost a flight sentence prior or explain to me how you knock down baddies for the price of a coffee.

Only thing I could think holding me back is my Short Term only on all profiles, unless you guys telling me you're also sticking it with the short term label. My match rate is so low on Tinder & Bumble it feels like my relationship status is only thing giving friction. I don't use Hinge, it feels super female oriented & time consuming but have all the other apps (Feeld, Chispa, Blush, etc.)

Have experimented a bunch of bios and prompts. Added a bunch of shirtless photos, took off all of them, tried with just one.

Not sure if guys having success are writing long term on their profile to get more matches and then running the game on them regardless. A login from a recent OG who was wife'd has me thinking that may be a strategy to consider since my likes are crazy low with a highest membership account.

Feel like there is a trend for cold approach but hate the idea of not locking in on one thing & becoming the best at it, for me it would preferably be apps all day. Besides the fact that most of these Cold Approach pushers are just selling their course like everyone else so its in their best interest you always suck at either aspect in dating. [And their always either 6'4" or ugly as hell with no chance on the apps world]

At the end of the day it feels like you'll go through all these hoops for chicks who end up being insufferable the majority of the time.

I have other paid mentorship groups and when I ask for other people's experience everyone goes quiet like they're embarrassed to admit their results are similar if not worse.

Are you all having a wildly different experience?