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Rhune
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America's Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
« on: May 14^th, 2004, 6:22pm »

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America's Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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Hooking that hottie is hard enough without the odds stacked against you, so the city study experts at Sperling's BestPlaces have identified for you "America's Best and Worst Cities for Dating."

The study is based on criteria that include percentage of singles ages 18-24, population density, and dating venues per capita such as concerts, coffee shops, bars, bowling alleys, etc., and includes 80 metro areas in America. AXE Deodorant Bodyspray, which specializes in the dating game, teamed with Sperling's BestPlaces to find out which city is revered as the D.C. (Dating Capital) of the U.S.

Land of the Longhorn
Yee haw! Austin, Texas, tops the list of best cities to play the dating game. Is the city you call home the place to find that special someone?

Best cities for dating
Austin, TX
Colorado Springs, CO
San Diego, CA
Raleigh/Durham, NC
Seattle, WA
Charleston, SC
Norfolk, VA
Ann Arbor, MI
Springfield, MA
Honolulu, HI

Worst cities for dating
Kansas City, MO
Wichita, KS
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Detroit, MI
Louisville, KY
Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC
Atlanta, GA
Pittsburgh, PA
Houston, TX
Charlotte, NC

Interesting Facts from the Top Ten
"Large cities that everyone associates with socializing, like Los Angeles and Miami, did not rank particularly high, scoring lower in categories like coffee shops per capita and flowers bought as gifts," said Bert Sperling, president of Sperling's BestPlaces. "But cities like Austin (No. 1), Colorado Springs (No. 2) and Ann Arbor (No. 8) were not a complete surprisethey are heavy-populated college towns and it's easy for young singles to get together."

Austin, TX: Taking home the grand prize, Austin scores relatively high in everything, from frequency of dating partners to the number of establishments to meet people. Austin also has the highest percentage of 18-24-year-olds and knows how to have fun as they spent more money out socializing than any other area. Austin residents also had the highest expenditures on alcohol purchased away from home.

Colorado Springs, CO: Ranks in the 99th percentile for socializing at bars and also scores high in the dining out category.

San Diego, CA: Scores high in the diversity index, which rates the likelihood of randomly meeting someone of a different race or ethnicity, and, of course, San Diego is off the charts when it comes to outdoor recreational opportunities.

Raleigh/Durham, NC: Has a large 18-24-year-old population and a high number of online daters in the area.

Seattle, WA: No surprise hereSeattle has the largest number of coffee shops (great places for meeting people or gathering to rehash the previous night's activities). It also has the highest percentage of online daters.

Charleston, SC: Ranks second in the number of lingerie shops per capita (behind Columbia, SC).

Norfolk, VA: Came in near the top due to the exceptional amount of flowers that were brought as gifts for a special someone. Online dating was also high, in the 83rd percentile.

Ann Arbor, MI: Scores in the 98th percentile for percentage of singles and ranks high in the dining out category as well.

Springfield, MA: Springfield scores high in many categories, among them the percentage of singles, health clubs per capita and bars per capita in the area.

Honolulu, HI: Honolulu ranks first in the diversity index category, which rates the likelihood of randomly meeting someone of a different race or ethnicity, and scores the highest in the dining out category as well. Honolulu has the lowest number of lingerie shops per capita, probably because no one's wearing much clothing to begin with.
Better Luck Next Time...

Below are some of the reasons that large cities like Detroit, Atlanta and Houston bottomed out in the study.

18-24 population: Pittsburgh (overall No. 73 ranking) and Detroit (overall No. 77) are among cities with the lowest number of 18-24 year olds.
Percentage of singles: Charlotte, NC (overall No. 71), is among the cities with the lowest percentage of singles.
Latte, anyone?: Wichita (overall No. 79) and Greensboro (overall No. 75) are among those cities that are home to the least number of coffee shops per capita, leaving few good places for young people to converge and trade stories after a fun night out.
Remove earplugs: Louisville (overall No. 76) scores low in the concert category; apparently the tour buses are not making a habit of stopping and rocking in Louisville.
Necklaces and bracelets and rings, oh my: Two of the cities where jewelry is least often bought as a gift are Detroit (overall No. 77) and Minneapolis (overall No. 78).
Ooo la la!: Houston (overall No. 72) is among cities with the fewest lingerie shops per capita.
Behind bars: Atlanta (overall No. 74) is among the cities with the least number of hot new bars, leaving young singles looking for places to meet potential hookups.

"We've received feedback from some of the lowest ranking cities, and it appears our findings are on-track," noted Sperling. "In these cities, there are relatively few young singles and the towns are so spread out, it can be difficult for them to find each other. Some are using this study as a call to action to provide places where people can hang out and get together."

The Wichita Eagle comments about this study, "This survey might be tragically accurate. In the last year, this reporter has received dozens of complaints and pleas for help from singles ranging in age from early 20s to late 60s. Their gripes are all similar. They want to meet someone special but don't know how to do it or where to go. And they certainly don't want to prowl smoky bars waiting to be picked up and/or rejected."

Methodology
AXE Deodorant Bodyspray, known coast-to-coast for their dating game expertise, came up with the idea of finding "America's Best and Worst Cities for Dating," using 24 distinct criteria including, among others: population density, percentage of singles, frequency of hooking up, dating venues such as coffee shops, bars and intimate apparel stores, and flowers and jewelry bought as gifts.

The study is based on the most currently available figures from the Census Bureau (population characteristics and statistics), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (frequency of sexual partners), Match.com (online daters), and criteria from leading relationship experts who weighed categories in terms of dating importance.

To view the complete rankings for all 80 metro areas in our study, visit Sperling's BestPlaces.net website at www.bestplaces.net/articles/DatingCities.html.

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Re: America's Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
« Reply #1 on: May 14^th, 2004, 6:31pm »

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Am LMAO! Rhune! I saw this today at msn.com and when I clicked on the link I could not open it. Undecided

Glad to finally see what I was missing! Bottom line is, I ain't movin' to any of those places. hehee

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« Reply #2 on: May 14^th, 2004, 6:38pm »

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Grin, it's funny, I've lived in 3 of the top 10 listed for dating and now live in the number 1 worst...LOL

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« Reply #3 on: May 17^th, 2004, 1:44pm »

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Thanks for those info! Ill remember that when Im in my HoneyMoon, though I plan to marry at the age of... 30-31. Grin

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Re: America's Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
« Reply #4 on: May 18^th, 2004, 12:19am »

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wow... I hope... I could get assigned to Austin for even a few weeks during our project.. so I can see... Grin

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« Reply #5 on: May 18^th, 2004, 10:01am »

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I think this only covers half (or less) of the dating populaton though.....I believe ( I haven't researched it though) that people RE-ENTERING the dating game in their 30's and 40's due to divorce is severely underrepresented. In that test population, I think the incidence of dating regularity would correspond to the locations that are heavily suburbanized........don't you think?

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« Reply #6 on: May 18^th, 2004, 7:40pm »

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I can't agrue with the poll, having lived in several of the cities listed.

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on May 14^th, 2004, 6:22pm, Rhune wrote:

Sperling's criteria is flawed. Just goes to show that these polls don't mean a thing. NORFOLK, VA is NOT by any stretch of the imagination, a dating mecca. The criteria of "Large number of purchases of flowers, jewelry and intimate apparel stores" is most likely attributed to Norfolk being a military area, home to a major Navy seaport, a Marine base, and Langley Air Force Base also in the area. I would venture to say that all those sailors, marines and airman returning home from deployments make most of those purchases for their wives.

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