Despite the increased use of dating technology for finding and forming romantic relationships, location remains relevant for relationship formation. While current research on relationship formation attends to the ratio of marriageable men to women, marital attitudes, and gendered racial exclusion, this research does not always consider a nuanced look at how location can also constrain opportunities to make short- or long-term romantic connections. Drawing on interviews with 111 Asian, White, Black, and Latina heterosexual college-educated women between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-three, I find that regardless of race/ethnicity, women observe that some places provide limited opportunities to meet men and that the mismatch between their dating norms, beliefs, and/or expectations for relationships and the location where they reside make their search more difficult. Women of color additionally note that some locations provide fewer opportunities for same-race and/or interracial dating than others. I also find that women of color are more likely to employ strategies to address their locational barriers than White women.

Therefore, I argue that not only does location continue to matter for forming romantic connections in the digital age, but that location and race also intersect to create unique locational barriers for women of color. This intersection, consequently, demonstrates that the opportunities for relationship formation remain stratified despite the rise of dating technology.

尽管越来越多地使用约会技术来寻找和建立浪漫关系，但位置仍然与关系形成相关。虽然目前关于关系形成的研究关注可婚男女比例、婚姻态度和性别种族排斥，但这项研究并不总是考虑细致入微地审视地理位置如何限制建立短期或长期浪漫关系的机会. 通过对 111 名 25 至 33 岁的亚洲、白人、黑人和拉丁裔异性恋受过大学教育的女性的采访，我发现无论种族/民族如何，女性观察到有些地方提供的结识男性的机会有限以及他们约会规范、信仰之间的不匹配，和/或对人际关系和居住地点的期望使他们的搜索变得更加困难。有色人种女性还注意到，某些地点提供的同种族和/或跨种族约会机会比其他地点少。我还发现有色人种女性比白人女性更有可能采用策略来解决她们的位置障碍。

因此，我认为，在数字时代，不仅位置对于形成浪漫关系仍然很重要，而且位置和种族也相互交叉，为有色人种女性创造了独特的位置障碍。因此，这种交叉表明尽管约会技术兴起，但关系形成的机会仍然是分层的。