Lurker here. You lot are so funny!
I guess I'm considerably older than most of you and, after about 5 years of being on my own, decided I didn't really want to spend the rest of my life alone. I found the prospect of online dating really scary, and looked at Match, My Single Friend, POF and others. Eventually, the one I found best, for me, was Kindred Spirits, at the Telegraph. I like the way it matches people, and sends you profiles you normally wouldn't give a second glance, but can be quite interesting. I signed up, didn't put up a picture, didn't pay the subscription (you can look, but not touch, so to speak, for free) and looked at it from time to time, becoming increasingly more disillusioned with all the seemingly old, bald, fat men, and thinking "is this all there is out there at my age?". Then I got an email from them, saying I'd lurked for ages, and would I like a free week's subscription? So I put up a photo, wrote a profile, and had absolutely no idea what to expect.
3 years later we are still together, and we live 120 miles apart. It's the best relationship I have ever had in my life.
I think I'm just trying to say don't stop looking, and don't make a big distance a no-no. You just never know.