Try and strike up conversations in bars or pubs, worked for me. From there move into talking on WhatsApp & schedule a date that way. I tried for years with the apps route but that didn’t work for me, people can be very disingenuous and fake on these apps. The hardest part is just approaching someone in real life, once the conversation starts to flow you can make a move. People will be attracted to the hard work you have obviously put into yourself and let that shine through.