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Yeah, if they took town Grindr in Dallas, they would’ve taken Grindr worldwide or at least in North America. Basically nobody localizes apps like this, infrastructure is centralized. Yes, there is usually load balancing, but pretty much never is the load balancing logic “geographical location X always connects to server Y”. Maybe they’d do it by continent so Europe and North America hit servers in the EU vs the US or Canada respectively, but not on a city or state level, that’s ridiculous, extra complexity for negative benefits.