What is the difference between these two sentences?

Question

One: This is where we first met.
Two: This was where we first met.

Answer 1

The second one is grammatically incorrect. As it is written, though, the first one suggests a place that currently exists as it did however long ago and the second one refers to a place that no longer exists as it once was.

Answer 2

The first implies exact location and the second implies same spot, different some how (like a bar that is under a new name and management).

It could also be a current relationship and a past relationship (often when someone dies or leaves in some way, things get into the past tense).

Answer 3

one: you are at the spot
two: you are looking at a picture of the spot

And what is simplicity talking about? You can use two different tenses in the same sentence. You can even use two different types of past, present or future tenses in the same sentence.
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Answer 4

One: You're at a quaint little Italian restaurant.
Two: You're at the site where the restaurant you met at burned down.

Answer 5

'is' is present or future tense i.e. happening presently

'was' is past tense i.e. has happened

Therefore the first sentence is grammatically incorrect i.e. you can not be currently met in the past, *'met' it the past tense of meet.

Answer 6

1st sentence is using present tense and the 2nd sentence is using past tense.

Answer 7

correct usage is the first sentence.

Answer 8

there is a one letter difference

Answer 9

one has "is"
the second has "was"