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Map of the Day: NYC Needs More Single Men

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While Forbes named NYC as one of the top singles cities in America last year, it turns out the reason why there are so many singles here is because women outnumber men by roughly 210,000. Things are not looking good, ladies. Apparently we are living in the worst "mating market" in the country!

Richard Florida, the author of Who’s Your City?, delivers this news through the above map (which appeared in National Geographic). Perhaps this will deter any future Carries from moving to Manhattan in hopes of meeting their own Mr. Big.

While Jezebel looks at it as a "depressing m*therf*cker," The Observer points out we'll likely be sharing the wealth with other cities soon, as spiking real estate prices may drive the creative class out to Philly.

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  • JenChungsBaby

    I like them all Armchair, white, hispanic, Indian, Asian, whatever. The only racial group I never dated was black, and I'd have done that too if the right opportunity presented itself.

    The Asian chicks I've known (a small percentage of all that I've known, you've forced me to say), whether from poor backgrounds or not, were all getting along very well in their own careers and had more money than me and never gave any indication that they were looking for anything other than companionship, a good time and a good roll in the hay. And that's what I gave them. Any thoughts I've attributed to Asian girls here are directly from them, not stuff I made up.

    And the one white girl I know who dated an Asian guy told me she wished he was larger and more manly looking! I speak from experience. Nivek seems to agree.

  • west side Michael

    If Men were trained to like commitment a lot of

    Women would marry them. But they know they are the

    minority and date date date.

  • jaja007

    Sex and the City has made the women of NYC undateable. Every woman you meet has height and income requirements. You either stay single or stay in a relationship that makes you want to jump in front of a train occasionally.

  • nonumentalart

    gwinny can i come to your parties?

  • west side Michael

    I've been married 4 times just to spread the love around.........Nah!

  • cucarachita

    You know, when I was a kid my mother told me I'd never get married if I didn't change my ways. I finally realized she was simply telling me how to remain my sweet and happy self! I've never changed my ways, and I've never been subjected to the embittering miseries of marriage or of "settling."

    I have a long term lover, and quite happy with my life. I don't really know why women demand so much from men, when they're obviously so miserable with them once they've got them underfoot 24/7. I am free, and loved. What the hell more could a woman in her right mind want?

    I say STAY SINGLE AND LEARN TO LOVE IT. Not everyone was made to get married! One can always have a nice lover (though Europeans are much better at the lover etiquette, and American men who don't want to get married are mostly selfish and abusive for as long as possible, in my experience, and more's the pity for them).

  • nivek

    Indeed. We may excel in discipline, however the prior generation's relationship mindset is quite out of fashion.

  • JenChungsBaby

    Also unfortunate for you Asian guys is the fact that a lot of Asian chicks are looking elsewhere because they grew up watching their Asian fathers be abusive to their Asian mothers (in my experience), and second because they want big hairy manly guys with schlong to spare (as you say). On the other hand, I've only ever met one white, black or hispanic chick who's dated an Asian guy.

    And Asian chicks are hot too -- all the more smorgasbord for the rest of us!!!

    My number one advice for desperate chicks is to move, to Alaska.

  • Kojak

    Whats with all the bitter Asians? Chill the fuck out.

    "I bet all the single women work at the MTA and are named bertha."

    lol yes, its so true.

  • nivek

    Unfortunately for us Asian men, intelligence is out of fashion, and gigantic cocks and stupidity are in.

  • Kevin Walsh

    According to that map it looks like I'm starving to death in a supermarket.

    www.forgotten-ny.com

  • babyhitler

    I think everyone is hung up on quantity and not quality. I bet all the single women work at the MTA and are named bertha. If you are a hot single woman you are gonna get some even if you don't want it. If you are what my gramps calls an "UGGO" then you aren't getting any. You'll be dreaming that you are carrie bradshaw. A ugly woman with a great career and wardrobe with a sex life. When you bring a real carrie bradshaw into the real world, the best she can do is gaylord matthew broderick.

  • schizofriendly

    Sorry, "lower manhattan (21)"

    I hate to be snide; I do.

    It's just that both sides are so particular here. Look around. Eveyone has a look of vague dissatisfaction on their faces. It's not so very hard to find love when you soften your ego.

  • eyekantspel

    I think there's probably so many single women around here because of guys like commenters 7 and 8 up there.

    Don't blame me, I'm just saying it like it is. The reasonably attractive women with good personalities I know might be single between relationships, but they generally aren't on the market for long.

  • schizofriendly

    But where are the heterosexual men with jobs (not hedge fund jobs, just JOBS)? I'm a parent of three daughters in college.

    Dating your daughters, I'm afraid...

  • lower manhattan

    But where are the heterosexual men with jobs (not hedge fund jobs, just JOBS)? I'm a parent of three daughters in college.

  • ladywarfield

    Long Beach, CA is hugely gay. I used to live there and was woken up once by the street being whipped by a 10ft leather whip, part of the pride parade. just sayin'

  • gimme

    west coast is a bleeding sausage fest, damn, hell no to that noise, yeah all us nyc guys got it made here

  • iank

    Which single women are they?

    Do those of us few, selective single men want to date them?

  • TKaisen

    You mean the city with the highest concentration of women acting the opposite of sterotypical gender roles have the hardest time finding men?

    Impossible.

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