If the person is local, I generally meet them in a week to a month at the outside. There is no way in hell I would wait six months before meeting someone that I was interested in unless there were serious distance and money issues. That's a major waste of time. What happens if you get through those six months and you find that while you may connect online or on the phone, there isn't any spark in person? Or worse yet, what if the other person is lying/concealing something? In my opinion, it is much better to find out about those things earlier rather than later.