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Yes, if they want local help but haven't said where they are located, somebody would probably point that out so that they can correct it. But there are roughly 10% of the members who most likely do...

You've brought it up before - every choice has consequences and the location being optional is what works best for SRP, so that is how it will remain until we find that something else works better.

The location is a free form field, so everybody can put anything they want.
You could have a selector with predefined fields which would make the search much better. But that also means that setting...

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