About São José
- São José has a population of about 300,000.
- It lies in Santa Catarina.
- São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, is about 494 km away.
- Close by: Palhoça (5 km), Florianópolis (8 km) and Freguesia do Ribeirao da Ilha (13 km).
Dating by city / Brazil / Santa Catarina / São José
No one from São José has a public profile here yet. Create yours and people nearby will be able to find you.
A weekday evening works well in São José: places are quieter, you can actually hear each other, and there is no pressure to make it a long night.
Within 50 km of São José there are 19 towns and cities — Florianópolis, Palhoça and Biguaçu among them — with more than 1.3 million residents in all. In the app you choose the distance yourself: from 10 km to 500 km, or “Any distance”.
Yes. YADate is a free online dating site, in São José and everywhere else: profiles, search filters, likes, messages, voice messages and gifts cost nothing, and there is no premium plan. The only limits are daily caps against spam, such as 40 new conversations a day.
YADate never creates fake profiles or writes on behalf of people who don't exist. A moderator checks every photo before it appears, every member confirms an email address, and any profile can be reported. Anyone who asks for money or pushes you to move to another app straight away is worth reporting.
Yes. In the filters you can search around any other city, in Brazil or abroad.
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