<![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I never got laid in LA.

I get laid all the time in Chicago, which, according to map above is disadvantageous.

go figure?

biancajames

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I didn't realize Seattle guys were sheepish until I moved to New York. Here a man came up to me while I was eating lunch with a rather intimidating looking male friend and told me I was beautiful. In Seattle all I ever got was a timid smile from a baristo.

bansaiiiiii

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I'm in Hawaii. The single guys are the losers who couldn't get it together and LEAVE.

fifilaru

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @hello.kitty: Crap! I forgot about the gays. So San Franciso, Seattle and Minneapolis are out. Ugh. I would rather be single than move to Texas.

LH

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @exelizabeth: Oh your poor friend. She'll be crying for the passive-aggressive Seattle douches in no time flat.

kikichanelconspiracy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat:

Oh, I hear you.

And ladies...do you want the squidgy divorced guy in Spanaway?

But..the guys at the Mountaineer's club love to sweat. And hey, they can build a campfire. ;)

I think the Bay Area is totally skewed by the gay factor. Just the facts there...

Jcakes

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Western Mass is mostly single women? Agreed! Although Mount Holyoke and Smith within 15 miles of each other throw it off.

CarolynEll

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> i just want to clear one thing up. DO NOT MOVE TO SAN FRANCISCO. all those men are either gay or jerks.

maxypunx

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> That is a TERRIBLE infographic. Any mapmaker worth their weight in ANSI E plots could tell you that this map should be telling you the percentage of men/women rather than absolute numbers. IE, it's a lot more meaningful if a small city has a surplus of 40,000 women than if NYC has a surplus of even 210,000 more women.

Metro areas, men/100 women.

[farm4.static.flickr.com]

ppiddy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I lived in NYC for over seven years and nothing...I moved to Denver and had a boyfriend within a month. Awesome. I can't attest to the quality of man years ago, but let me tell you there are some fine specimens currently.

kloov

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> can we make a new map with age ranges and gay vs. straight? that would be excellent

I mean, I already knew the ratio in Charleston was out of wack (whores are the only ones who get laid here) and its impossible to meet a guy who hasn't been spoiled with an easy and no-strings-attached lay, but wow. I need to move (aww, but I love it here!--the beach, the culture)

maybe this map can entice men to MOVE to Charleston

mariew

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @hortense: No, there just aren't 40,000 people anywhere in the state.

sequined

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Devonna: My best advice to you, as a single, hetero Minnesota man of roughly 27 years of age, is to STAY IN THE LOOP. 694/494 was built for a reason, one of which seems to be a helpful reminder of civilization. I wouldn't venture too much out of the Loop for "Men" worthy of a Jezebel reader, and even if you're Harold & Maude old, you're not too old for Uptown. Maybe Dinkytown, maybe the clubs, but not Uptown.

fever

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @ulookinatmyjunk: No, Denver is pretty much sausage party. None of my female friends/ attractive co-workers are single and all my male friends aren't married... but I"m the only one with a car, job, degree and all my teeth.

BlindKarma

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @That_little_attention_whore: maybe I am just a huge misanthrope. Also, I am very tard right now. G'night

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @That_little_attention_whore: have to add, those dudes definitely impressed me when I was in high school, though.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @eleven.dolls: tourist types are not that interesting to me. there's a whole element of douchiness to the "outdoorsy" crowd that I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe it's that air of privilegedness (is that even a word? it is now!) that goes along with being able to be a "career" ski bum. Summer crowds aren't much better: I cannot count the idiots I have encountered while climbing in places like Maple Canyon. It's like they're the hiking/camping versions of hipsters or something. Sort of like the Subaru phenomenon. Am I doing a poor job of explaining this? I think I probably am.
Maybe it stems from the fact that I grew up there, and I already have my set of friends who also grew up there and none of us are socially conservative at all. So we can have an existence independent of the Mormons and the tourists. I dunno, I just want to enjoy my Cafe Rio pork salad in peace without hearing some asshat jabbering about his bitchin' new gear he paid a bunch of money for at REI, brah.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Come live in Madiosn, betches! We got lots of fellers, you just can't have mine.

AmericanSplendor is politically frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Oh, balls. I live in SoCal and am pretty hot, so I'd better get the lead out.

Although I agree with earlier posts...whole buncha 'mos out here, so that changes things.

Snarky1

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Hhmmm. I've been in SF for four years. The supposed 65,000 more single men that are here are not straight, no, no, no. They are GAY GAY GAY. Which is fine. I'm just sayin' don't think the golden gate is the place to find a man...unless you're a fag hag, or a dude.

Momofuku

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Weed not weeds, dammit.

WantToTouchtheWahine

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Hey Denver Jezzies, there are lots of single men in Fort Collins! Of course, a lot of them are in college...or think they're still in college...or don't do anything but tend to their hydroponic weeds...or, oh, um, wait, what was the question?

WantToTouchtheWahine

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @cautionarywhale: Ahh Cambridge is the worse! I'm currently in school and I feel like guys in Boston use their school as pick-up lines, or where they live as pick-up lines. "Yeah, I'm a theater major at Emerson...soo...ya wanna go have an Amstel Light at my Newbury Street apartment that my parents pay for?" ummm no thanks. "Yeah, I usually don't hang around Tremont...I live in Cambridge. The bars there are way less judgemental than downtown" pshh yeah okay pal too bad if I walked into a bar without chucks and skinny jeans and some stupid satirical $50 shirt from Urban Outfitters I would get looks of death! I love Boston though, don't get me wrong. It's mah homez and I'm born and raised, but I had to go to the 'burbs to find a decent man. Yes, I am willing to drive 40 minutes to see my man because thats how slim the pickins' are in Beantown ladies

AnnaWintwhore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> That big blue dot over Dallas is the gay male population!!!

(With the rest made up of Douche and Mushroom straight males.)

For those of us who want the Total Package: CALLING WALT DISNEY!!!!

PuddinTane

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Living in SoCal, I can tell you that graph is spot the fuck on.

I will not tell you where I live, though, until I have chozen my prize.

LipstickLibrarian

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @BoredPhDiva: BPhD, you can hardly drop that little nugget without saying in which city you are residing. Come now, give.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Uhm. I live in San Francisco and this is completely incorrect. I refuse to believe it. My primetime date right now is a 25 year-old Trader Joe sample guy...there needs to be a color indicator of eligibility in this graph.

PrincessFloozina

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Ladies, i know there's a HUGE blue dot on Vegas. Don't come here for men, all i've been able to find are sleezy douchebags and/or crazy, possibly dangerous, fuckers..(think Travis Barker character in Taxi Driver) :( don't move here, it's fucking frusterating.

Sir.Realism

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> It looks like the east coast has a case of the clap.

nardo218

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @RetroChristal: Why, you're a Sooner, ain'tcha? (Is there anything else in Norman? Last time I was there... no.)

hellodarling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @TinyK: All these comments sharing the love of Burgerville is making me crave a strawberry milkshake... I wonder if the chocolate hazelnut ones are still in season...

ps - I love that a fast food joint bases their menues on what is is season. that is a true sign of good shit.

Tillamook Cheese!

Sukie in the Graveyard

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: Totes down for the Seattle meet-up and glad to see West Coasties representin' on the Jezebel! And i'm not just being polite either--although I was raised a North-wester, it was by raucous NYC jews.

Sometimes I feel so all alone in my rainy hovel. But not today, it's sunny and i'm stoked there are like-minded individuals roaming the pike-pine corridor.

Now, where be the REAL menz? And where be our drinkin' hole?

@tetragami: Good call, lady!

Moley

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> wait- someone wrote a treatise about how gays make cities more fun? WHY HAVE I NOT READ THIS? I've been saying that shit forevs.

kthnx

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @DorothyZbornak: Damn straight, sister.

notquiteunderground

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @That_little_attention_whore:

are y'all considering the influx of available straight, mostly east coast, highly literate men into southern utah in late spring/early summer who river run and then spend winters working ski patrol in alta/park city/telluride/crested butte? seriously, there tend to be a pretty good number of them. they import women. they recruit tourist women to stay with them. they are entertaining as hell, and their stamina is not to be sneezed at.

utah has a range of industries or whatever feeding fairly interesting, high functioning guys into the state. I am in new mexico now, and here? they are local, or they moved here to work for intel or in some defense industry capacity. I was really shocked to leave utah and find myself living somewhere *more* socially conservative.

eleven.dolls

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Yeah, there're TONS of single guys here in southern and northern california. What they don't point out is that, in the south, they're all idiot losers on drugs or in the porn/hollywood industry (same thing), and in the north, most of them are gay.

Are there any maps listing where the single, available, and QUALITY men are?

echosdream

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @AnnaWintwhore: Yeah, I live in Back Bay (due to finding a miraculously affordable studio) and the dudes 'round here are bigger snobs than The Heathers. If you don't have a master's degree (which I don't), you are automatically assumed to be dumb and lazy. The same applies to Cambridge.

cautionarywhale

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @That_little_attention_whore: But Big Love explains it all! 3 women married to one guy = excess single males. None of whom you'd want to date, of course...

LittleBlackFly

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I live in a place where there is a 70/30 male/female ratio so its safe to say that the only women here not getting laid are the ones who don't care for peen.

BoredPhDiva

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Sukie in the Graveyard: Word. And walla walla onion rings are only a few months away. Hmmmmmmmmmm, onion rings.

TinyK

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: I don't really buy the Seattle Freeze. These people who complain about never getting invited anywhere have to do some inviting! But, Seattle Jezzies, there are solutions!

Try the Seattle Anti-Freeze: [www.theseattleantifreeze.com]

They have stupid fratty parties, groups for sports, but also community service and networking events. Most importantly, they have bar crawls.

Underdog Sports: [www.underdogseattle.com] is also a good way to meet normal people in Seattle.

Fancy Pants

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Lady Skittlehattington, toast enthusiast: Haha! Yes! Im getting ready to leave. I have to say there is something to be said for quality. Yes I have met a lot of single men. And please believe they are single for a reason!!! Oh it's good to have a fellow Kansan on here to fell my pain that is living in KS.

Boogie Down in London Town

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> This same map appeared in National Geographic in February of last year. I know because it depressed me then, too.

Marsgaret

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Ha nevermind they're both by the same guy.

He can knock off his own stuff anytime.

I think the other link was wrong-here's the 2007 Nat'l Geo:
[creativeclass.typepad.com]

Are they both from 2006 data? Surely things are worse by now?

alices_list

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @AnnaWintwhore: *sigh* those very Southie mens were the subject of my early adolescent South Shore gal crushes. But that was probably in large part to my love of Donnie Wahlberg at that time. Ill informed, yes, but hot, nonetheless.

WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Captain_Morgan: OK, I looked this up: According to their website, the MTC in Provo serves 80% of the missionaries who leave each year. It hosts 2,000 new missionaries at a time; 20,000 through the duration of the year.

Of those 2,000 who are there at one time, I would expect that the majority of them are already from Utah - they just moved from one city to another. Also, you have to take into account the people from Utah who are out of State already on their missions.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Captain_Morgan: They also have the language school in Provo where they train missionaries who are going to other countries. (they actually do language instruction through BYU, which explains why they have such a big foreign language department). According to the Church, about 10,000 men go on missions each year - I posit that the majority of them are from Utah (if nothing else, there is much more social pressure to do the mission when you're 19, right in the middle of college). Of course, they don't all leave at the same time, so they wouldn't all be at the MTC at the same time. Plus you would have some leaving as others would be coming in. I think it's a wash. The higher numbers of men are probably due to the extractive industries throughout the State.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Wow east coast is dismal. I need to move west! But actually, I don't want to be near Yellowstone when the mega-thrust earthquake happens....it's not paranoia people!

smartpepper

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @That_little_attention_whore: Actually most of the people in the Utah MTC are either going to serve in Utah/surrounding areas or are from the Western States. So they are not all from Utah. I don't know. The whole LDS thing skews the map anyway.

Captain_Morgan

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> This m

Marsgaret

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Am I the 20th person to say: this graphic looks _exactly_ like the one Nat'l Geographic put out last Valentines day?

[creativeclass.typepad.com]

Or maybe America is just covered with brightly gender-color-coded bubbles nowadays?

(Sorry I don't know how to embed the link, or maybe I'll get lucky and it'll work.)

alices_list

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Captain_Morgan: ok, since it didn't want to post my first response, sigh, here I go again:

Most of the dudes in the MTC are from Utah. They've just relocated from Sandy to Provo. Likewise, the influx of males at the MTC is probably cancelled out by the number of local guys who are already ON missions (out of state, anyway). So I guess the case with the MTC is that the Lord giveth, but the Lord also taketh away.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> why didn't my first post work?

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Captain_Morgan: uh, yeah, but most of those dudes are from Utah - they've just moved from Sandy to Provo. Plus - you have to factor in all the ones from UT who are ALREADY on their missions (not in State anyway) while most of the girls just stay put.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> If you wanna get laid in Boston you better be prepared for what menz are comin' your way. All we got are dumb Southie fucks who talk about themselves in the third person and have super hot bodies so you can kinda get over the third person thing and the smoking 4 packs of Newports a day thing, and also the dumb as rocks thing. Then there's the pretentious art kids in JP, who can be nerdy-hot but if you don't drive a Prius or ride a bike or carry one of those fucking "I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG" $400 bags then they won't bang you. And this is NOT a bitter rant because I have slept with these types of guys and loved them

AnnaWintwhore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @That_little_attention_whore: Like I said Utah is explained in three words: Missionary Training Center. Thousands of young, single men. All going off for two years of exclusive male company. They are not looking for a date, and would probably be lousy dates anyway.

Captain_Morgan

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Oh also, I'm a media studies major, and my profs and my people-in-the-industry-who-I-look-up-to... totally want to have babies with Richard Florida. Why is that?

feminatheism

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @dontbogartthewine: Bears vs. Dates! The newest reality television show where men must battle bears to win the heart (and a night of dinner and boning!) of the female contestant! ONLY ON FOX!

feminatheism

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Oh wow. This explains high school for me. I grew up in Tulsa,that Pink dot in Oklahoma, and went to college in Norman, approximately that blue dot. Now I live in LA, and it's good to know if I break up with boyfriend I'll be able to find a guy fairly easily.

RetroChristal

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> so, is that lone, sad, blue dot in the middle of North Carolina RTP?

And how can Utah have a preponderance of men? Is Big Love deceiving me?

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Great. A big fat red dot right on top of New Orleans. I really really want a better boyfriend but if you factor in the gays, there are no options.

NOLA girl

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Here's to hoping I get the job in Boston I'm interviewing for. It may be close, but Providence =/ Boston when it comes to the dating scene.

hubris

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I once broke up with a guy because he didn't know what "dichotomy" meant. (And my babysitting kids did.)

qtilla

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @missmacro: I honestly think it's becoming the Douchebag capital. Go to McFadden's, BarXV, Kells, Baracuda, Dixie, Ringlers...etc. All I ever see there are frat dicks who don't know how to buy a lady a drink.

@SarahMC: If you want some fun stuff to do, first avoid the bars listed above. Then try these options, House of Louis for some Dim Sum lunch, the Portland Farmers Market, Powell's Books, NW 23rd Street, Papa Hayden's (stay for dessert), 21st St Theater or The Brasin Bean, Lola's Room (if it's Friday) or Thirsty Lion (if it's not Friday) and finish the night off at VooDoo Donuts - ask for the bucket, it's $5 of goodness.

If you only go to VooDoo, it will all be worth it.

Sukie in the Graveyard

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I would like to point out that there are NO metropolitan areas in Montana for them to test. That is all.

Jenloveshercurves

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo is a sparkling and gorgeous size 00...: I like you more and more everyday. Southern girl + baseball junky = top notch chick in my book.

THE hoi polloi

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Even more depressing: A lot of those single men are gay. In my experience in NY, more so than the women.

But! It would be interesting to see a study about how many single women in NYC who would like to find a husband/life partner actually eventually do. It seems to me that most women I know who wanted to eventually found someone, even if it was later than they had imagined it would be.

teapartys_over

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I'm willing to bet Paul Janka could help one with this.

That is, unless, you don't already have the clap.

TexasCrude

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Captain_Morgan: come come come if you're in town! katiepalooza at gmail dot com, or i'm also on dah facebook (jezebel colorado group)

@THE hoi polloi: i am a baseball junky, so if this meetup goes well, i shall plan others!

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo is a sparkling and gorgeous size 00...: I am a Utah Jezzie, but I so might be in Denver that weekend. And I love baseball. And all the Denver guys I have ever met/dated were douchebags. But then so are most of the Utah guys.

And the map is dumb. Arizona will have a lot of widowers and Arizona/SoCal will have a lot of migrant workers. And Utah has the missionary training center. They are not looking for a date.

Captain_Morgan

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo is a sparkling and gorgeous size 00...: Sounds like a blast, but we'll be in San Diego that weekend for a wedding. I'm sure there will be other games, as I try and go to about 30-35 a year here...

THE hoi polloi

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Are there any other Nashville Jezzies around?

Oface

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I'm not getting laid because:

1. The fiance is in Iraq.

2. I'm not a dirtbag like a majority of contractors significant others.

Oface

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: haha, I = too old for the Uptown scene. Oh, well, I'm not too worried about it. Thanks, though!

Devonna

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo is a sparkling and gorgeous size 00...: Lots, but unfortunately they're either gay or douchebags. The reason I'm so quick to agree with much of what you say about Denver men is that I see it with my own two eyes, far too often. Believe me, I've tried to set up one of my good friends, but got tired of hearing back from the ladies that he was a prick. Great friend to me, asshat to women...

THE hoi polloi

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @THE hoi polloi: oh, and. i don't know if you're part of the jez colorado facebook group or not, but i'm planning a meet up for the rockies game may 3rd. it's my birthday weekend! so i figured drinks/food at tavern before hand, then rockies game at 6. katiepalooza at gmail dot com.

That goes for all Denver jezzies!

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Devonna: if you're in your early to mid twenties, get ye to uptown. edgy boys, indie movie theaters, tons of places to eat, and the lakes just a few blocks away. and juuuust enough crime to keep things affordable. otherwise, northeast minneapolis is a banging place to live as well.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @THE hoi polloi: so, uh, got any single guy friends?

/no, i'm not desperate...

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Vegas? Really? Are they counting tourists, or not counting under-the-table cocktail waitresses?

HeatherNumber1

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @exelizabeth: Go on the WA State Jezebel facebook page so we can make plans.

@Your Sister-in-law's Baby Cousin Traci: Yes - in fact, I've noticed that a lot of guys here like to have what they must consider edgy or hipster facial hair. I prefer the clean shaven look, myself.

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @esmemurphy: It's funny you mention that. At my 10 year HS class reunion I was one of about 5 people that wasn't married and on their 2nd or 3rd child. It scared me, since I'd just moved back here from L.A. where hardly anyone under 30 was married. Innnneresting. I'll have to try and find some different places to meet people.

Devonna

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Sev: Hey capitana negatory, Denver also has an awesome new art museum, one of the best zoo's in the country not in SoCal and some sweet venues for enjoying music (i.e. Red Rocks, the Fox in Boulder)...

THE hoi polloi

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @tetragami: Amen sister! These statistics do not reflect the normal to whackadoo man ratio.

LucyTuzy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @tetragami: @petuniacat: Have either of you noticed that a LOT of the guys here are bald/have a shaved head & facial hair? It's kinda odd...

Your Sister-in-law's Baby Cousin Traci

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> ah, minnesota.. land of the flannel loving hunter.

melanal

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Kate: And that "Anti-Fatty" gym! Don't forget that!

Sev

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Devonna: I can commisserate since that was my entire high school dating pool. Sigh. You need to get yourself into the city! There are also single men over 30 there that are very date-able. I know more single men than women (I am over 30, too) that live in Mpls. And the men I know aren't single because they have major issues, it's just that people tend to marry later there in general and they just haven't met the right person. When I first moved out east, I was shocked at how young people seemed to marry in the Boston area. Compared to Mpls, anyway, where I was the youngest of my friends to marry, and I was 28 and my husband was 33. If I still lived there I would try to hook you up :)

esmemurphy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @NotNotLickingToadsingworth, IV: Eh, numbers don't fall in their favor (as confirmed by map) and floppy-haired alcoholic types don't appeal to all. But hey...times a-wastin' girlies, gather ye rosebuds, yada yada yada. Blergh.

WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> And I've always wondered why every single woman I know finds herself in another relationship instantly while I languish away. Demographics! That's it, nothing to do with my personality. I'll repeat that as a mantra.

NosebleedSeats

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> New Orleans has a dearth of single men? Really? I'm moving there in a month, and I'm suddenly less excited.

formerlydictator4life1

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Obvs men love denver. There's beer, skiing/snowboarding, camping, backpacking, rafting and the likes. Manly Men stuff.

Kate

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @ElizaGray:
"pretentious filmmaker wannabes."

Ha! You just described my ex, who lives in LA, is single, and is actually a really nice guy. But yes, a pretentious filmmaker wannabe as well :)

hellodarling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Obvs men love denver, there's lots of beer, skiing/snowboarding, backpacking, rafting and the likes. Lots of Manly Men stuff. And they're all pretty hot, really, there's gotta be something in the water.

Kate

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I have met Richard Florida in person. He is part rock star, part economist. This is probably a map outlining all of his conquests.

amoureuse is a second class citizen

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @WaltzingMatilda: It can't be that hard...if they're into ex-post-facto fraternity types, that is.

NotNotLickingToads

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @esmemurphy: I am on the north side of the cities for the most part and I work in a blue collar environment. So while I recognize there's a lot of good looking younger guys there's also (in the over 30 age group) a lot of the MN-redneck types.

Devonna

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @CorporateTool: As someone who grew up in the suburban sprawl surrounding Denver, I advise you to stay the fuck out of Denver. The men there SUCK.

Sev

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @exelizabeth: Geez, I can't read today. Tetragami posted the link. Thanks!

exelizabeth

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Dear Blond Diary...:I know what you mean about the band thing. I am a guy and I used to work with another guy in a warehouse here in Portland who used to tell me that the ladies must love me because I'm not in a band. Turns out he wasn't too lucky because of the band. Everyone here is in a band. But it may have been because he sometimes wears a wedding dress. Just to defend my hometown a little, I'm 28 and don't work in a grocery store and am not in a band. And I'm not one of those newfangled hipsters either.

NosebleedSeats

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @NotNotLickingToadsingworth, IV: Si, Atlanta has lots of nice looking ladies. Unfortunately that doesn't help the women looking for peen. Fortunately, I am not on the market, period, so I don't have to deal. But the way things are going, I have lots of friends that are considering switching teams.

WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I can't type today.

woman't=woman's
sing=single

wednesdayam

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Political Party Girl: "Susan knew that to find the perfect man she would have to head west. Jeff knew that the perfect woman was waiting for him somewhere on the East Coast. Who knew they'd meet in Dayton?!?"

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @ShadyBusiness: Oh hey, totally didn't read all the posts. I too am joining the facebook group! Man, I've been thinking, "I wish I could me the awesome chicks on Jezebel."

Wait, I can't find the facebook group. Can someone link to it?

exelizabeth

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @ElizaGray: Doesn't that apply to the brunt of the female population as well, though?

Dating in L.A. seems like it might be all kinds of traumatic.

NotNotLickingToads

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Why I love Austin. Look at that big blue dot. Tons of dudes. Sure, Dallas/Ft. Worth has more, but you're more likely to stumble upon the single barely-working/out-of-work "a woman't place is in the kitchen" redneck crowd up there. Down here, it's the sing out of work bass player who seriously thinks this next band he's in will hit the big time... I love this city.

wednesdayam

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @honeybunchesofoats: They're not ALL engineers - the guy I'm seeing right now is a... computer science grad.

LittleBlackFly

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @ilovepaisley: I'll vouch for that. I've never had to do without for long...

bigleggedwoman

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Glad I brought a man with me to Chicago! That, and, I'm a hermit who mostly works with middle-aged former school teachery women so not much hope of my scoring otherwise.

fixed_lens

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I'm an LA girl, and I'm pretty sure by "single men" they actually mean "out-of-work actors" and "pretentious filmmaker wannabes."

ElizaGray

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> wait. i live in LA.

FUCK! i must have leprosy!

wedropscience

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> This is beautiful: it's like a giant, national middle-school dance.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @tetragami: We should have a Seattle Jezebel meet up! It looks like there's bunch of us here.

exelizabeth

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: *voodoo doughnuts downtown
*grass hut corp and the other little stores around 7th and east burnside
*fresh pot, mississippi records + rebuilding center on mississippi
*stumptown, aalto lounge, and tao of tea on se 34th + belmont
*countermedia, reading frenzy, jackpot records + the half and half on sw oak right across from powell's books
*hanging out at laurelhurst or mt tabor parks
*endless skeeball and videogames at avalon nickel arcade (se belmont)
*photobooth at ace hotel, drinks next door at clyde commons
or check out the mercury for live music listings

dokuchan

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Devonna: Where are you hanging out? Near the U of M? In the 'burbs? Block E downtown on Sat. night? Because my experience when I lived there was much closer to that of the poster who said that the boys in Mpls probably knit and really love their mothers, with a dash of shoe-gazing indie rock behavior thrown in. I grew up an hour from Mpls in western WI, and the dating experience there is a closer match to what you describe.

esmemurphy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @NefariousNewt: Sounds like you have a hit romantic comedy plot line in the making!

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @ShadyBusiness: See, now you're all coming out of the woodwork!

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> First thought: I gots to move to the BosWash megalopolis of smart-&-sassy-womandom.
Second thought: Maybe all the extra blue in Az is just from lonely retirees? I'm too lazy to check, but was this age adjusted for singles I should care about?

B_boy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> all those blue dot guys in suburban illinois come to chicago to work & play and pick up women who live downtown - hey, i'm one of those women! no wonder the bf stays over so often! lots of guys in chicago ladies, they dress well and take you to good restaurants - c'mon down.

whyknot

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: [www.facebook.com] <--link to the WA state Jezebel facebook

tetragami

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> This is true. I live in Seattle, and I know like one single woman. Single dudes are everywhere.

Although my friend did move to DC because she hated the dating scene here. We are, like, the most passive aggressive city EVER, so it can be hard to get a date.

exelizabeth

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: #6 right here! And a meetup sounds great! I haven't joined the WA/Seattle Jezzies on Facebook yet, but I will!

Pocahontas McGinty

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Spend less time lamenting lack of lay-age, spend more time getting laid.@pinkyBella: Atlanta is rife with hot ladies.

Unfortunately, for the most part they're all looking to get married.

NotNotLickingToads

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @warmbread: Texas is absolutely wonderful. Step off.
(That sounded a lot meaner than I meant it. BUT STILL.)

hellodarling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Sukie in the Graveyard: BURGERVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing I regret leaving behind in SW Washington. Oh that special sauce.

katekatekate

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @SarahMC: In Portland, right? I don't live there, but I visit family there now and then. I love the Saturday Market and the Chinese Garden. The last couple times, I've had brunch at Virgo & Pisces, a cute little place in a slightly quirky neighborhood with really good breakfast food. [portland.citysearch.com]

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Political Party Girl: Unfortch, most of the menfolk included in the circle of my dear hometown (DFW FTW) are:
a) Gay
b) Douchebags
c) Larry the Cable Guy
d) In college
e) Super evangelical Christians
f) Any/all of the above

I know way too many eligible, fabulous young ladies in DFW - I call bullshit.

hellodarling!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> what an odd graphic, and also so telling of my current state of affairs.

that said, like hell i'm moving to vegas or la unless i'm making more money.

rednrowdy

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @NefariousNewt: Well, then we'd just do a new survey, and everyone would switch sides again!

It would be hilarious.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo is a sparkling and gorgeous size 00...: Hmm. This calls for a clothing line of some sort--fashionable clothes, but with immediately recognizable coded patterns or decorations.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @hortense: Pretty much. My brother lives in Montana, and it seemed like everyone out there gets married by 24. Everytime I visit him, seems like I'm the only gal in the vicinity without a weddin' ring.

Saw this map on boston.com the other day. Apparently..*apparently* Boston has a near perfect balance of single women to single men, with single women outnumbering the mens only by about 1,100. I guess I only have myself to blame for not having gone out on a date for more than a year...interpreting mens' sexual advances for forced friendliness or pretending I'm invisible or something.

cautionarywhale

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> What they don't tell you about the big blue dot in Minneapolis/St. Paul is the prevalence of guys whose wardrobes consist entirely of hunter orange, camouflage, and waders...guys who regularly toss their empty beer cans out the window on the way home from work...guys who never voted before Jesse Ventura ran for governor...guys who think anyone who's not white is black or Chinese...it can be frustrating.

Devonna

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @kami2000: Hah, yeah. Not a lot of shirtless guys here, and if they are shirtless, they're probably pale and should be wearing a shirt.

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @missmacro: I'm not looking to meet a man. :) I have one. I'm traveling for work and will be visiting my bro; I'm looking for cool things to do.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @pq: Indeed, and I'm only contributing to the shy/awkward problem in Seattle.

tetragami

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @tetragami: @Moley: @pq: @ivanabtaken: Just right here, we have 5 Seattle people - definitely enough to plan a meet-up. I actually live and work north of Seattle - maybe one of you who lives closer to the city has an idea for a place to meet up? Also, are all of you on the Jez Seattle facebook page?

petuniacat

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Wait is this single, heterosexual men? Cause I know there are plenty of dudes in SF-Bay Area but I'm pretty sure a lot of them are gay.

If not, whoohoo for me!

shananigans

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Fuck yea, Minneapolis/St. Paul! I knew there was a reason I put up with these ungodly winters.

vonnegurl

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @chlauraform: Exactly, I was wondering if that was taken into account too, especially since, unfortuately, gay men and women are technically always single.

lumenatrix

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: that's exactly like toronto! No Seattle for me! I'm moving to honolulu, even if the mens are gay, they'll be tanned and shirtless right?

kami2000

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> i had no problem whatsoever getting laid in new york.
my heart really does bleed for LA girls, though. There's a reason why those 89,000 men are single.

SharonTaint

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @probationer: Oh no, stay away from there. Wasband lives there.

DoNotStalk

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Jerseylicious: Or be consigned to one of the hideously boring office-type romances where they get into bed and, like Lanie and Neil, have long, involved conversations about money.

Cowboys, please.

TheFormerJuneBronson

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @hortense: No... they just don't respond to surveys. Now you better leave Mr. Survey-man, if you know what's good for you!

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: @tetragami: i've lived here most of my life and we are a strange lot. i'm not really a people person myself, but there are a lot of us shy/awkward types around here.

pq

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: hey there. i'm in the seattle area too and was reading through the comments seeing what others had to say about seattle men and the seattle chill. i agree with pretty much all of what's been said!
seattle jezebel meetup - yes please!

ivanabtaken

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> You all should come to Wichita -- maybe not too geographically amusing, but for the most part, pretty good dating!

JWhizzite

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @braak (is *whew*): Which begs the question, what if all the women go West and all then men move East?

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @SarahMC: meeting men in PDX is HARD. Or rather meeting intelligent, mature, cute men is hard. emphasis on mature.

missmacro

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @nycbaby: Hey, no Hos are allowed to move anywhere!

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> so now i know why i was single the whole time i lived in NYC and since moving to new england am not. and here I thought it was because all the guys i knew in nyc were afraid of committment!

violettefay

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Sukie in the Graveyard: Burgerville is the BEST

missmacro

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Yes, makes perfect sense. I was summarily dismissed by a nearly toothless cowboy with spotty hygeine. At the time, his alluring salt-of-the-earth, bruised heart, diamond-in-the-rough like qualities drew me in....and every other girl with artful bangs and a working knowledge of the hymnals and On Narcissism. Turns out, there are TONS. I can't believe how much this place disgusts me.

ohjulia

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> So that's why my mom wants to move to Colorado!

smallymcpocket

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @Jerseylicious: dude, that's was totally my fantasy until i realized that i don't want to live on a farm and i also have to be near good sushi. not gonna happen so much in the wild wild west.

cmg

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> Dudes were just as fucked up in Denver as in NYC. Sorry, ladies, the Peter Pan self-entitled syndrome is a fucking nationwide crisis

brassinpocket

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @PinkSoxHat: The disproportionate number of blue dots in Southern California is most likely due to a large proportion of immigrant laborers, who are predominantly men.

@ilovepaisley: Really? In LA?

LBB says YES WE DID!

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> huh. I guess most of the women from TX with the smarts and the means got the fuck outta there and left the men behind.

warmbread

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I'm sorry, did you read the fine print underneath the map? it says "singles age 20-64". I don't think all those singles are actively dating or looking for a partner, you know? I don't know abut these studies. People tend to date people who are of similar educational, career, and socioeconomic background. I don't think a young 20-something assistant with a degree from Sarah Lawrence is going to want to date the 50 something man who cleans her office after hours, and yet these types of studies posit the two as a potential couple, which they're not.

Jezebabe

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> And yeah, I just said "Hunky" - that was total movie-blurb language. Blech.

na

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @braak (is *whew*): I think there should be some color code for dudes- like a light above each of their heads that lets you know what you're getting into.

I don't mind the geeky boys either, but if you're going to be geeky you need to have another really good redeeming quality.

(Yes, I know that's shallow.)

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> I've always been loath to move to the sticks (ala that Anne Heche show, or the classic Baby Boom). What if the only eligible bachelor isn't a hunky vet or wildlife biologist (yeah, I watched the AH show)? What if he's a mailman with a speech impediment? Does it work then?

Moving to Cali, however, seems to be reasonable...

na

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @probationer: No, I won't move back to KS. You can't make me! The men will just have to come to me. Humph.

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @trisarahtops: hilarious. My unofficial nomination for comment of the day.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> shouldn't the map be colored red and green?

rab48

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @petuniacat: I moved to Seattle almost a year ago and still need to either go home to my parents or fly to the East Coast to see any friends.

There's a Washington State facebook group, planning a meet up there would probably be convenient.

tetragami

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> @WaltzingMatilda: i know! too much fun! i'm sure you know of blake's then??

pinkyBella

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> (and the name is Mr. Florida? Really? Dick Florida?)

WAIT A SECOND! IS THIS AN APRIL 1ST LEFTOVER? I WILL CUT A SEA OF BITCHES.....!

Jessica Hussein Lovejoy: BRB, getting Rahm'ed

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> isn't the east coast perceived as smarter? more classy?

hmm. i wonder why?

lermanzo

]]> <![CDATA[A Statistical Guide To Why You're Not Getting Laid]]> This totally explains the FL teachers and their boy toys phenomenon.

trisarahtops