


Are you looking to settle down one day with a young, college-educated man?
Houston and Dallas are your safest bets for any kind of match being accepted.
When I decided to end my eight-year stint in Washington, D. and decamp to Los Angeles last summer, my friends in the capital looked at me like I had announced plans to eject myself into space.
If you have ever been tempted by the low-hanging fruit of the sexy Internet slideshow, you may be under the impression that Los Angeles is one of America’s "Best Cities for Singles." Over the past few years, online publications have periodically culled regional data from dating websites and census tracts, made pseudoscientific calculations of their impact on singletons, then excreted the results into clickable lists. To anyone who has actually attempted to date in America’s two most populous cities, these results are puzzling.
filed its latest tabulation in February, claiming—based on its large population size, high percentage of unmarried households, and relatively moderate date-night tab—that Los Angeles was the fifth best city for single people in the country. And alongside college towns like Iowa City, Durham, Bloomington, Ann Arbor—cities so stuffed with single coeds that they ought to be disqualified—New York City joined L. A closer look at the studies shows that they’re often measuring the best cities for single people to stay that way—depending on your perspective, the cities for singles.
In the year that followed, I've learned that my friends and I were both half right: Washington is for nesters, and Los Angeles is for loners, but this has little relation to our populations’ reputations for titanium SAT scores or prominent cheek bones.
In fact, it has very little to do with the people playing the game, and everything to do with the way they are scattered across the board.
(Study: ratio of single women to single men, the percentage of college-educated women, the percentage of gainfully employed single women (all from the Census), and the number who work out) Here is what they found: Most Eligible Women 1.
Young adults who would like to get married naturally start looking for love in the community they live in, but in some parts of the country, the odds may be against them.
You can even add your own list of the worst cities in the USA to these rankings.
Whether you're traveling or looking to move somewhere permanently, these are the US cities to avoid at all costs.