The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on March 30, 2008, 12:43:41 PM
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...By far, the best places for single men are the large cities and metro areas of the East Coast and Midwest. The extreme is greater New York, where single women outnumber single men by more than 210,000. In the Philadelphia area and greater Washington, D.C., single women outnumber single men by 50,000. I met my wife outside Detroit, where the odds were greatly stacked in my favor - single women outnumber single men by some 20,000 there.
In fact, single women outnumber single men in many large cities around the world, even though men outearn women at all ages, according to Lena C. Edlund, a Columbia University economist. One reason young women in the prime marriage years - the 25-44 age range - flock to big cities is to compete for the most eligible men. And smart women who gravitate to vibrant cities are more likely to stay single - for longer, at least - because they rightly refuse to settle for someone who can't keep up with them intellectually or otherwise.
But women do have an advantage in the American West and Southwest. In greater Los Angeles, for example, there are 90,000 more single men than women. In Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area, single men outnumber single women by roughly 65,000. There are considerably more single men than women in San Diego, Dallas, and Seattle, too. Each of these regions has grown substantially over the past two or three decades, offering jobs in everything from high tech to construction and services. As numerous studies of migration show, men - especially those in regions with declining economies - are initially more likely to move long distances for economic opportunity, while women are more likely to stay closer to home and family.
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I suspect that many of the surplus single men in the Bay Area are not looking for marriage. :-)
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Hmm. Nashville doesn't seem to offer too many choices. Chatanooga and Atlanta on the other hand... :devious:
I don't think you could pay me enough to move to Memphis.
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Hmm. Nashville doesn't seem to offer too many choices. Chatanooga and Atlanta on the other hand... :devious:
I don't think you could pay me enough to move to Memphis.
I report, you decide. Of course the map won't give an indication as to the quality of prospective mate you might find in any particular area. :-)
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Hmm. Nashville doesn't seem to offer too many choices. Chattanooga and Atlanta on the other hand... :devious:
I don't think you could pay me enough to move to Memphis.
I report, you decide. Of course the map won't give an indication as to the quality of prospective mate you might find in any particular area. :-)
I wonder if I could combine this with the couch-surfing website and open a dating service.
There sure seems to be a lot of single men in southern California... they're probably all gay. :rotf:
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^LOL! that's kind of what I was thinkin Chris.
And I can assure you that the surplus of single ladies in Memphis coincides heavily with the baby mommas on welfare.
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Once you knock out the lesbians and women who don't date outside their religion, NY/NJ aren't really worth messing with.
:popcorn:
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Hmm. Nashville doesn't seem to offer too many choices. Chattanooga and Atlanta on the other hand... :devious:
I don't think you could pay me enough to move to Memphis.
I report, you decide. Of course the map won't give an indication as to the quality of prospective mate you might find in any particular area. :-)
I wonder if I could combine this with the couch-surfing website and open a dating service.
There sure seems to be a lot of single men in southern California... they're probably all gay. :rotf:
From looking at the map, they tend to migrate to Florida and California....both coastal states with a very warm climate...my theory is that they are drawn to where women flock in bikinis :naughty:
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It isn`t fair to make blanket statements but am thinking those 210,000 single NYC/NJ ladies aren`t worth wasting time on.
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Ft. Worth, here I come... 'cause there's no man worth having in the MIA.
*Red*
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For a single guy, Atlanta is the greatest place I have ever seen. Women asked me to go out on dates with them.