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Good news for singles looking for singles in Manhattan this weekend: the intrepid reporters from the NY Post have crunched the data from the most recent census of NYC, and found that more than half of Manhattan residents are single. (For some perspective, if you include the other four boroughs, that rate drops down to 33.5%) And they sound really pumped about this "no roommate, no spouse, no family, no kids" utopia they've discovered.
Maybe this can help explain how NYC has one of the lowest divorce rates in the country. But don't get too excited yet: even though the Post might imagine the borough as "some kind of "Sex and the City" fantasyland," they interview two NYer's (the proverbial Adam and Eve?) to get the real scoop, and find one lonely dude who isn't so cracked up about searching "for his perfect match while roaming the neighborhood with his English bulldog, Olivia Newton-John."
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People in Manhattan (except for the idle rich) have no time for romance. They're too busy trying to make enormous sums of money quickly in order to pay the rent.
Any single guy who can't get laid in this town is a LOSER.
no kidding!
Ladies, however, are at a disadvantage.
There are 212,000 single female households compared with 165,000 male single.
"and found that more than half of Manhattan residents are single"
And most of them are women over 40.
Ummm....
Milfs....
So eager, gracious, and non-comittal
yeah i was going to say that the article doesn't mention any age demographics.
disastrous blind date.
"oh. you are 83."
Obviously Manhattan is where the singles are. Once you're married you want a house and a bigger space.
1850 for a studio! that is crazy to me. you can live alone in a 2 bedroom in brooklyn for that price.
what's weird is the idea that living alone = single. that's not exactly true. aside from all the people who are dating other people living alone, i know at least one couple who have been together for 12 years and still maintain separate residences.
and of course, living with others in no way means you aren't single. roommates, single parents living with their kids, etc.
i am surprised there would be as many people living alone as not living alone. but manhattan apartments are really really small, so sometimes that is going to be the only option.