Seattle: Great For Singles, sort of
Forbes magazine, that authority on the dating scene, has released their annual report on the Best Cities for Singles. Seattle came in #7, just behind Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
Raleigh-Durham?
Anyway, those crack researchers at Forbes note that although Seattle has lousy culture (ranked #31) and so-so job growth (#20) and nightlife (#14), we have a very high coolness factor (#3) and and our online dating scene is quality stuff (#3).
Therefore: next time you can’t get a date on Saturday night? Blame it on Forbes. According to them, all your prospects are moving to Denver.
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I am suprised we did so well for singles. People in Seattle in general seem stand offish. They don’t like to be bothered, they don’t like really making new friends, they hate being approached. So I am surprised we ranked so high. All my friends are single and have no desire to really date. Maybe what they ment is that it’s a great place to be single and not be bothered. lol
Seattle did much better than Chicago (my hometown). Not only did The Windy City come in behind Raleigh-Durham, but also Columbus, Minneapolis-Paul, Milwaukee, and Providence. Not a very good showing at all!