What can I do to meet women? Recently divorced?

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What to do? I am in my 30’s, divorced, no kids, work out, and have more education than 93% of the population in my town, and I don’t think it is asking too much to want to meet a woman that at least somewhat compares to that. Yet NO women ever smile at me or act like they are interested in me, they look down their nose at me and I don’t understand why. My friends think I am fun to be around, and I’m not especially ugly just average looking. I would like to find my equal in a woman, but I fear that a person like that would not exist where I live. Even if I sink way below my standards, I still don’t think any women are interested in me. I lived here all through my 20’s and I only had one girlfriend for about a month and went on one other date in 8 years! The only reason I met my ex wife is because I left the friggin’ country!!! I don’t want to waste my 30’s waiting for a woman that doesn’t exist, like I wasted my 20’s. Maybe I should just move, but I really can’t due to my job.
Let’s assume that my standards ARE too high, for the sake of argument. Let’s say I find someone with a GED, who doesn’t understand anything I went to college to accomplish, can’t hold a conversation about anything I devote thought to, who has 5 kids, and 5 psycho special forces ex- husbands freshly out of Leavenworth, and is overweight, ugly, and has no class at all. You really think my life would be better if I just accepted that? Doesn’t everybody seek compatibility? That is what I mean by finding my equal.
I think it is a good idea for me to get involved in things that I’m interested in, maybe I will have to expand upon that. I do participate in a community “activity,” but there is a peculiar lack of women my age- mostly school-age girls and older women, and I talk to everyone. It’s a good idea, it just hasn’t produced any fruit. Maybe I need to come up with some other hobbies or something. I’m not the kind of person who is into everything under the sun though, I have a limited few things I’m interested in and focus on them intensly.