Where the single boys and girls are

[BurtWorm]

Click http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/06/singles_map_lg.php">here for larger version.

As PZ Myers points out, the East-West split is peculiar. Anyone have on theories on what that's about?

[Breeze54]

1. More men in prison in the east and west??

:shrug:

[NoodleBoy]

2. wow, that explains alot about my lack of dating for most of my adult life

[demnan]

4. Me too

I live in the DC area. All the beautiful interesting single women I've known as friends colleagues and co-workers in my day around here - none of them married.

Women who move to the DC area from other places say, "You'll never have a meaningful relationship as long as you live here".

[NoodleBoy]

10. I'm in Phoenix. It's mostly seemed like the few girls my age here are already in relationships

so, uh... you wanna hook up sometime?

[EnviroBat]

34. I got's the same problems here in Central OH

Most are married, (miserably), because they are in love with the "idea" of marriage, or they are dating the tool they are about to marry and spend the next 3 to 7 years with. Or they are divorced and only want a relationship with their cat now, add kids and baggage to that equation, and NO thanks... The divorce attorneys are cleaning up around here.

[mzteris]

11. I'm sending this

to my daughter who lives in Bethesda and is surrounded by gorgeous men who are completely self-centered.

I think she should MOVE.

[Dogmudgeon]

16. Well, they're not dating me

I'm a man in the Philly area, home to a big orange dot (i.e., a male shortage). And every gal from the DC area I've been after (four of them since 1990) found somebody else, so somebody is getting all that action.

I think the overall problem is that people don't like each other very much anymore. Specific cases are harder to figure out, but according to pop psychology, in my case, it's because I'm no damn good. }(

I do notice that a lot of people of both genders have impossibly high "standards" -- and not necessarily in terms of looks.

--p!

[whistle]

3. Is there a reason why the single men are mostly in the western half

...of the U.S. while the single women are in the eastern half of the country? Is this another Christian fundy plan for total sexual abstinence?

[shanti]

9. see answer below

n/t

[NeedleCast]

5. Wow, that's pretty cool, and fairly accurate

Explains why I had a terrible dating life in Austin, TX but have done very well in the D.C. area.

[demnan]

7. You have the "pick of the litter"

n/t

[mzteris]

6. something to do with

Go west, young man??

:shrug:

[shanti]

8. nope, illegals

TONS of young mexican men in so cal. i'm sure that's why it's so high.

[mzteris]

12. and all those gay men, too

living in San Francisco.

They're all single 'cause gay marriage is illegal.

[shanti]

26. well, i wouldn't go that far

;)

[TransitJohn]

13. .......

:popcorn:

[Dogmudgeon]

17. Happily married, eh?

--p!

[TransitJohn]

24. Nope

mostly happily divorced for 10 years. Popcorn is for the post about "illegals". :hi:

[shanti]

27. hey, it's true!

someone had to say it :hi:

[mzteris]

30. please tell me

you're forgetting this:

:sarcasm:


Because if you're really serious - I'ma thinking you've taken a wrong turn somewhere.

[shanti]

31. dead serious

i live in california, i SEE this....every day. it's not a statement of prejudice, i don't care one way or the other, so don't think that i'm jumping on the immigration bandwagon, cause i'm not. california depends upon mexican workers, of which men make up the bulk, and that's a fact.

[mzteris]

36. A) I hardly think "they"

are skewing the results;

B) you think CALIFORNIA is the only place "immigrants" go? Been to NC lately? Or anywhere else there are a lot of crops to be picked?

[BlooInBloo]

14. Fuck me I'm sooooo on the wrong side of the country.

[Orsino]

15. "Go west, young man."

That the population difference exists doesn't surprise me, but the magnitude does.

[TahitiNut]

19. GMTA ... nobody said "go west, young woman!"

:shrug:

[NeedleCast]

20. It's funny that

I was living in Austin, TX as a kid up to my early 20's and had a few friends there who moved out to Cali "because it was full of babes."

Apparently they were not the only guys thinking that.

[BurtWorm]

23. Reminds me of the Hot Party Hotline on the Simpsons

where only Moe, Barney, Krusty and Apu show up, and Apu says, "This party is not as hot as I anticipated."

[hootinholler]

35. East coast girls are hip, I really dig those styles they wear...

LOL, The Beach Boys theory of migration is as good as any other theory.

-Hoot

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. Interesting divide

It almost reminds me of being a shy teenager hanging out with my girlfriends peering across the room at all the guys hanging out with their buds peering back.

[BlooInBloo]

25. (peek)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

41. *peeking back*

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

21. It seems to confirm my impression that capitol cities tend to attract women.

Just looking at Sacratomato, Olympia, and Salem seem to bear out that impression.

[hfojvt]

22. does the map differentiate by age?

Or is it lumping all ages together? Not a meaningful result for a guy under 35 if many of the single women on that map are widows over age 70.

[NeedleCast]

29. I can only speak for DC

but there does seem to be an abundance of youngish (mid 20's to mid 30's) single women in this city. A lot of them are "career minded" and are not at the stage of their life yet where they start to think about getting married...which is nice, because I'm not either.

I'd imagine it has a lot to do with how the local area see's single people (and single women in particular). I was down in San Antonio, TX during Cinco de Mayo and there were a TON of bachelorette parties going on. At the restaurant we went to before hitting the bars there were five separate bachlorette parties going on. I talked to one bride-to-be who was 23 and she said she was attending something like eight weddings that summer.

Austin is a pretty progressive town (generally the only blue county in Texas) but in many area of the state it's "strange" for women over the age of 30 not to be married, where as in DC, it's pretty common.

[Radical Activist]

38. Reminds me of one town

where I often here statistics about how many more single women there are than men. The problem for me as a young man is that most of the single women there are over 30 and divorced with at least one child.

[ContraBass Black]

28. Ok, so I'm not moving to California.

Or out of the DC area, for that matter.

[EnviroBat]

32. I'll see you all later, I'm off to Cleveland! WooHoooooo! n/t

[Blue_Tires]

33. ugh....

the numbers work out in my favor and i'm still below the mendoza line...FWIW i did have decent success when i was in college in atlanta, but i've lived in washington and new england with nearly zero success (as an aside, i found the women in washington to be pretty materialistic, and in many cases, i was looked down upon for being in such a low-paying job...ymmv)

[gatorboy]

37. Looks like the Beach Boys got their geography ALL wrong!

[Warren DeMontague]

39. I coulda told you that. I did okay as a single young lad once I moved to California

but nothing compared to the years I spent living in Chicago. Whee!

[Johonny]

40. Well

The Silicon Valley boom certainly helped drive the west coast M/F problem. High tech computer jobs that were being filled mostly by men.