I once discovered a bar right in the middle of London-yes LONDON which changed my life due to how easy it was to pull.Up until then I was still shy due to being unattractive in my teens til 18.
Somehow,to cut a long story short,the word had got around female Scandinavians and Dutch women and also US air stewardesses as well,lol and a few Englishwomen that this was the best pick-up place in London,lol.
I ,on the other hand,had no idea about this.Not only that but nor did any Englishmen.Half the men in there couldn't even speak English at all well and most of the rest were essentially tourists.
The first time I went there I was showing my Spanish cousin the sights of London and we were in Covent Garden.
This bar is in the middle of Covent Garden and Id been there many times by day.
Anyway its a small cellar bar with excellent music(then) and it was absolutely packed.
I left my cousin and joined the throng at the bar to get a drink.
And by the time I came back I knew I was in heaven.
I had one phone number already and had flirted with 2 other women just while trying to get served!!
This must be what its like to be in a gay bar I thought
I enjoyed myself so much that the next night I left my cousin at home and went on my own.
I went there every day for 2 and a half years and in the first year I was at least kissing someone at the end every night.
To this day I still have love letters from women from Denmark,Norway ,Sweden,Finland and the USA from those days.Recently I sadly decided to only keep the few that meant the most to me.
Every time I pass that bar my heart skips a beat.
NOW,with all due respect to you,its very easy for a woman to play down the importance of going to the right place.
Its actually really really tough out there for men due to advertising now picking on them, as it did with women for many years, and women becoming pickier.Because they are.
I learnt a valuable lesson from this bar.
Finding the right places to go is more than half the battle.
Going to bars where there are many good-looking men is downright stupid if you're male. No question about it.
Research has shown that if a woman is faced with a choice of men that are lower than her normal standards she will in fact tend to temporarily lower her standards for that night.
In any major town there are bars where its easier to stand out.
If you're not prepared to experiment and find them then you will lose out.
Of course if the OP is merely looking for a girlfriend well then it doesn't matter quite so much.
(nb No bar remains a good place to go for more than 2 years -most are only worth going to for a few months.)