Finding love in the bush can be a challenge with a limited dating pool, but one young woman is taking matters into her own hands. Landline’s Courtney Wilson reports on her quest for romance in rural Australia.
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00:00There are many perks to country living, but there are also some pitfalls.
00:08The long and often odd hours and the locations can make finding a significant other a little
00:15tricky.
00:16I'm full time on the family farm and I was really struggling to meet someone.
00:22I'm at uni, I'm doing agriculture and still then I hadn't met anyone, I don't go to the
00:27pub on a Friday night and I just felt like if I was struggling, surely other people are
00:33struggling as well.
00:36Twenty three year old Mia Ryan lives and works on this picturesque rural property not far
00:44from the Hunter Valley.
00:46She's a horse trainer, working mainly with warm bloods to keep them agile and in condition.
00:54It usually takes about an hour, hour and a half to get through each horse.
00:57And although not exactly long in the tooth, she didn't want to waste any more time waiting
01:02for Mr Right.
01:04So Mia decided to take matters into her own hands and with no experience at all, she set
01:10about creating a dating app specifically for farmers.
01:15Mia settled on a developer in Sydney, took a huge business loan and with the help of
01:20a coding team based in Nepal, in the space of just over three months, Mia created Howdy.
01:27I'm going to get ready.
01:34On Howdy.
01:35It was launched in March 2024.
01:38It now has more than 10,000 downloads and a couple thousand paid subscribers online
01:44looking for love right now.
01:46Hey, I'm Brenton.
01:47I'm so excited to be joining Howdy today.
01:50We've got so many long distance relationships happening.
01:54I had one just the other day of a girl saying, I just went on my first date, I flew down
01:58to Melbourne.
01:59We had a great weekend.
02:00Another couple each drove five hours to meet in the middle in Roma.