In my area, which is Silicon Valley, CA, the single men now outnumber single women. There have even been articles in the Internet to that fact. This area draws a lot of engineers, and people qualified in the high tech skills, and there are few women who go into engineering, so...lots of men have come here. LOL, there are several lunch spots near where I work, delis and the like, that I have nicknamed "no woman's land" because if you go in these places during lunch, the whole place will be table after tables of parties of all men, and not a single female in the whole place. I get my food to take out, in that case. Then there is the Zanotto's neighborhood market near where I live, and in the hours after work and on weekends, all a woman who wanted a date would have to do, would be to just get out of her car and stand there in Zanotto's parking lot and she would be hit on. =:O
I'm glad to hear Time Out is going to devote a whole issue to that topic, since I'm a subscriber, single, and living in NY City....and yes, the single women here far outweigh the single men. Take the already low # of single men, and weed out the ones who aren't players, substance abuses, unemployed, have more baggage than an airport,or refuse to date you if you're anything over a size 2, and we are left with maybe 10 or 11 on the entire island of Manhattan. Definitely not the place to be if you're a single woman looking for a relationship, I've just learned to accept it, and try to enjoy the city for all the great things it has to offer, even if eligible, worthwhile men isn't one of them.
I'm not sure if single women outnumber single men here in Seattle but I did notice that in the last issue of Oprah, it said Seattle has the highest number of women living alone in the country. That doesn't surprise me--I meet a lot of great single women here. Not so many great single guys, LOL.
I would definitely say women outnumber men where I am (MD/DC area) and its even worse in the black community where we outnunmber them 100 to 64. And that is overall population. When you consider the ones that are on drugs, in jail, unemployed and gay, the eligible men's pool ets even smaller.
"Take the already low # of single men, and weed out the ones who aren't players, substance abuses, unemployed, have more baggage than an airport,or refuse to date you if you're anything over a size 2, and we are left with maybe 10 or 11 on the entire island of Manhattan."
You hit the nail on the head. I live in the area as well and none of my married friends seem to get it-- most of them did not meet their spouses in NYC. I feel like half the men I do meet are gay or fall into one of the categories you listed above. i took a look at the article online and it's very interesting. I really wonder sometimes that if I stay here for too long I'm going to condemn myself to being single for the rest of my life. Not that I absolutely hate my life because I don't at all, I'm enjoying it here and I have wonderful friends, but it gets old and I'm getting tired of the same old routine-- dinner and overpriced martinis with friends, buying nice things to temporarily raise my spirits because I don't have anyone else like a child to shop for, dabbling in match.com cuz I have no other ways to meet anyone, wondering if things are ever going to be different or if this is the beginning of the rest of my life.
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LOTS of single men here.
Except we have the highest per capita population of gay men in the country.
Single and straight? Ummmmm....I think there's this one guy....
I don't know the exact numbers, but I feel like it's pretty evenly matched here.
Maybe I'll move to Silicon Valley. :)
AJ, enjoying life with C.
I'm not sure if single women outnumber single men here in Seattle but I did notice that in the last issue of Oprah, it said Seattle has the highest number of women living alone in the country. That doesn't surprise me--I meet a lot of great single women here. Not so many great single guys, LOL.
Sheri
"Take the already low # of single men, and weed out the ones who aren't players, substance abuses, unemployed, have more baggage than an airport,or refuse to date you if you're anything over a size 2, and we are left with maybe 10 or 11 on the entire island of Manhattan."
You hit the nail on the head. I live in the area as well and none of my married friends seem to get it-- most of them did not meet their spouses in NYC. I feel like half the men I do meet are gay or fall into one of the categories you listed above. i took a look at the article online and it's very interesting. I really wonder sometimes that if I stay here for too long I'm going to condemn myself to being single for the rest of my life. Not that I absolutely hate my life because I don't at all, I'm enjoying it here and I have wonderful friends, but it gets old and I'm getting tired of the same old routine-- dinner and overpriced martinis with friends, buying nice things to temporarily raise my spirits because I don't have anyone else like a child to shop for, dabbling in match.com cuz I have no other ways to meet anyone, wondering if things are ever going to be different or if this is the beginning of the rest of my life.
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