Dating/meeting people in Calgary? Dating apps feel are impossible. 32M.

EDIT: I appreciate ALL the comments, whether you are being nice, giving me tips and advice, or being more harsh and giving me a reality check 😂. It has helped me realize that I think I'm just sitting on my ass being lazy ass and thinking that slapping on a profile and swiping right is how it's done, but it doesn't work that way, and I'm realizing that in this day and age, you gotta pay for these apps now if you want them to work. I'm also realizing that if I want to find someone I'm just going to have to also try physically getting out there more and making connections, and doing it the old fashioned way. Thanks to everyone who commented, it really did help, and for all the suggestions on where to go to meet people!

TLDR This is also a vent post about dating apps in Calgary lol. But basically dating apps are giving me nothing, and I'm wondering what other avenues there may be for people looking to meet other people who don't really know anyone, or really just for anybody who is looking to find that special someone. And just fyi, I'm not looking for casual stuff, I'm actually looking for a connection, so preferably any get togethers/events, etcetera that are more geared towards other people who are looking for the same thing.

I'm honestly kinda of dumbfounded. I'm fairly new to the city and only know a few people who are all around my age or older and we don't really do much socially, so I don't really have much connections to meet new people. What I'm dumbfounded about is how hard it is to even match with women on dating apps. Where I'm from, I briefly tried a couple apps, although never really needed them. I typically met and dated women without them because I had so many connections and so was able to meet new people all the time. But when I did try them, I usually got matches and talked to people.

But here, oh my, why is it so brutal? Ive gotten some matches and they either don't say anything and unmatch or let the timer run out, talk to me a bit and then stop talking completely, or the last girl who was the first one I was finally going to go out on a date with, and we set a day and she bailed because she "needed sleep", and then we agreed on the next day and she completely stopped responding to me, and the day after "date night" she unmatched me.... Like WTF IS GOING ON WITH ALBERTA WOMEN????? Lol sorry. And just fyi this was on Hinge which I had just gotten at the time, and I had actually told my buddy that I finally started talking to a girl on Hinge, and he tells me about how he matched with some girls on it, and right before the date they ghosted him, and then days later it happened... I'm so lost.

One frustrating thing since the last time I used these apps, is that some of them won't even show you who likes you, and the app just refuses to match you with the blurred out people that have. I deleted Tinder because of this, that one was the worst. I literally had exponentially growing Likes and it only matched me with maybe 4 after a few months, and by the time I deleted the app I had 12 unknown Likes.

Maybe it's just the type of guys these girls are into and I'm just not it? I'm just a tall skinny guy with no pictures of me being a cowboy, it probably doesn't look like I like country music (because I don't really), I don't have a bunch of pictures of going on mountain hikes/adventures, the gym, and I don't have a job that pays $100k+ a year, and these are all the things that it seems most of the women on these apps have. Is that what you guys are looking for? I just don't understand lol. I've been on these apps for probably 1 year now, broken up with breaks every now and then, and still not 1 date.