Are you Single?

Christmas is coming and I hope you don't only long for your Mr or Mrs Right.

If so, I hope it will change.

I dare you see one of these magnificent places that are called best ones for Singles.

Haven't you been looking for love in all the wrong places? Let's see.

San Francisco-based financial literacy site NerdWallet put a new survey where lists the top 20 cities for singles.


It has a touch of levity, looks at something called “dating affordability,”

In addition it evaluates “date-friendliness” by calculating the number of arts and entertainment businesses and restaurants per 1,000 residents, plus “walk scores. . . to evaluate how easy it is to get around and meet people,” derived from a site called walkstore.com.

Finally the most objective criterion: the percentage of the population 15 and over that’s unmarried, also calculated from Census Bureau data.

At the bottom of this post I’ll include the 10 best cities for single men and for single women, which factors in the number of each sex per one hundred members of the opposite sex.

NerdWallet analyzed data for the 50 largest US cities. One major caveat: because the Census Bureau doesn’t count the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered singles, the numbers could be skewed, especially when calculating the best cities for single women, say, in a city like San Francisco with a large gay male community.

Right...

Here are the best cities for single women:

1. San Francisco: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 101

2. Seattle: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 97.5

3. Minneapolis: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 102

4. San Diego: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 100.7

5. Austin: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 102.6

6. San Jose: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 96.9

7. Long Beach, CA: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 94

8. Portland, OR: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 93.4

9. Denver: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 97.5

10. Los Angeles: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women – 94.8



The best cities for single men (date cost, median income and other factors affect the scores):

1. Baltimore: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men - 124.7

2. Philadelphia: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men- 122.6

3. Washington, DC: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 123

4. New York City: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 121.1

5. Boston: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 116.8

6. Nashville: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 122.2

7. Detroit: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 122.1

8. Fort Worth: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 121.1

9. Oakland: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 109.8

10. Cleveland: unmarried women per 100 unmarried men – 115.7

As you can see there are plenty more... fish? in the sea ;)

Task: GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE. DATE PEOPLE.