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The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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post #8

The ratio in New York City is hardly a problem since the population is so big (8 million). It is like 53% women and 47% men. I am a man and went to a college that was 55% men and 45% women. I never felt like there was a lack of women.

> Kay told me the stereotypes are backed up by her site’s numbers — in New York, there are 1.82 as many female users as male, while in San Francisco, there are 1.42 as many male users as female.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

#12
post #9

...and why didn't they raise the money to fly a planeload of eligible MEN to NYC?

...because like Horoscopes, Magazines telling us what we should eat/wear/say, and the rest, Men don't generally fall for this kind of thing.

Yet they're still funding this campaign to have women sent to them. Which is one of the saddest things I've typed in recent memory.

(and if you really think that "men" don't fall for being told what to eat/wear/say you're horribly, sadly mistaken)

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

#13
post #9

...and why didn't they raise the money to fly a planeload of eligible MEN to NYC?

According to a comment by the founder on the article, that's in the works going up online tommorow. They decided to do this one first because of winter weather in NYC vs SF.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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post #5
post #2

Wait - so they can't get a date in NY, and they think the standards are lower in SF, so they might get a date?

Majority opinion is that NY nightlife/dating life has higher ratio of girls to guys while SF has way more guys. So it doesn't mean standards are supposed to be lower, rather the ratio should even out between the 2 cities.

It's the "elsewhere is valuable" "logic."

Protip for men: Davis, CA not during summer has the highest concentration of unmarried, college educated, single women of any college town in the US, outside the Boston metro. Thursday night is salsa night at The Grad. Get your silly colored sunglasses and go.

The other trick is to have women fly out to meet you, oh wait, that one has an API now. :) Seriously, distance is another "barrier" so it is good for the stationary party (not that kind, the human kind).

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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post #7

I thought it would be funny to make a joke site with this idea (even grabbed sadsingles.com a few days ago for it) - it's interesting someone is actually trying it. The dating situation is so bad for single men in their early to mid twenties on the west coast that I'm starting to think it's worth bailing on the area entirely and moving to NYC just for that purpose. (Palo Alto has got to be magnitudes worse than SF wh…

SF != "the west coast". Easy on your generalizations.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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post #16
post #7

I thought it would be funny to make a joke site with this idea (even grabbed sadsingles.com a few days ago for it) - it's interesting someone is actually trying it. The dating situation is so bad for single men in their early to mid twenties on the west coast that I'm starting to think it's worth bailing on the area entirely and moving to NYC just for that purpose. (Palo Alto has got to be magnitudes worse than SF wh…

SF != "the west coast". Easy on your generalizations.

Bay Area then?

SF to San Jose - I've also heard LA isn't really better, but I guess there's the central coast.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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post #9

...and why didn't they raise the money to fly a planeload of eligible MEN to NYC?

...because like Horoscopes, Magazines telling us what we should eat/wear/say, and the rest, Men don't generally fall for this kind of thing.

GQ, Maxim and FHM would beg to differ.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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post #8

The ratio in New York City is hardly a problem since the population is so big (8 million). It is like 53% women and 47% men. I am a man and went to a college that was 55% men and 45% women. I never felt like there was a lack of women.

Paradox of Choice on both sides could make it seem there are no options when there are millions of them (or at least thousands of viable ones).
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