I’m done with my thesis and pretty much everything else, so I should have more time to blog now. Let’s start off with this fascinating map (via the g). The east-west divide is really striking; I’ve heard before that New York in particular has a hugely disproportionate number of single women, but I hadn’t realized that the same was the case in most other eastern cities or that the opposite was true for most of California. The fact that all of the main cities I am looking at for jobs have very favorable ratios is encouraging.
May 11, 2007
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Two girls for every boy, indeed.
Comment by neil — May 11, 2007 @ 4:57 pm |
Hm, I would love to see this map overlaid with an age map. I suspect this is at least as much a map about youthfulness as it is about gender and marital status. The older the population, the more single women.
Comment by Witt — May 11, 2007 @ 5:05 pm |
I hadn’t thought about that angle, but it makes sense. On the other hand, don’t most large cities have fairly youthful populations?
Comment by teofilo — May 11, 2007 @ 5:15 pm |
It would also be cool to see different versions of the map, parsed for sexual orientation. Cool for Labs, I mean.
Comment by Stanley — May 11, 2007 @ 7:27 pm |
Thinking some more about the age issue, I’m skeptical. Look at Phoenix, for instance.
Comment by teofilo — May 11, 2007 @ 7:59 pm |
Well, I’d guess Austin fits pretty well. At least in my (limited) experience as a male. And yet my standards are still too high. Go figure.
Comment by pdf23ds — May 11, 2007 @ 9:08 pm |
You could try San Antonio.
Comment by teofilo — May 11, 2007 @ 9:32 pm |
Yeah, fat chance. When I get the balls to move to a real city, (and I really hate finding parking, you know,) I’m moving to NY. So there.
Comment by pdf23ds — May 11, 2007 @ 9:37 pm |
It’s becoming more and more likely that I stay in the east. I’m not sure this map is what’s going to make the difference, though.
Comment by eb — May 11, 2007 @ 10:10 pm |
8: When you move to NY, ditch the car. You won’t need it.
Comment by LizardBreath — May 13, 2007 @ 7:20 pm |
8: When you move to Sacramento, ditch the car. You won’t need it.
Comment by Megan — May 13, 2007 @ 11:00 pm |
Note that Sacramento appears to be one of the few California cities with more single women than single men.
Comment by teofilo — May 13, 2007 @ 11:08 pm |
Bummer for me. You could rent my house when I finish the move to Oakland.
Comment by Megan — May 14, 2007 @ 1:32 am |
Many of those single men out west are either gay or massively flaky. She says, gloomily.
Comment by Ile — June 10, 2007 @ 4:03 am |