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Slightly off topic but the male/female ratio is very imbalanced in places. Having just moved back to Seattle from Tokyo, this imbalance is very prominent here,

by ronnier 11y ago

Slightly off topic but the male/female ratio is very imbalanced in places. Having just moved back to Seattle from Tokyo, this imbalance is very prominent here, which wasn't noticeable in Tokyo. Just yesterday I went to a bar with a colleague. I counted 21 males, 0 females. That type of ratio isn't uncommon here it seems. A friend went to a yoga class with his girlfriend and he said more than half the class was male. They also took salsa lessons together and mentioned that men had to have other men as dance partners since there wasn't enough women to pair up with.

pavel_lishin 11y ago
> They also took salsa lessons together and mentioned that men had to have other men as dance partners since there wasn't enough women to pair up with. I wonder if this is mostly due to those men attending salsa classes hoping to meet women.
- ronnier 11y ago
  Yes.
- Jtsummers 11y ago
  Hoping to meet women, or develop a talent/skill that they can use to impress women they meet elsewhere.
Silfen 11y ago
Seattle native here - this is only sort of true. Miami, LA, and Houston have a worse gender split[0]. My guess is that you're probably running in tech circles and hanging out in neighborhoods where locals don't live. http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/13/sorry-guys-amazons-not-why-youre-still-single/ http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/13/sorry-guys-...
BillTheCat 11y ago
What kind of bar was it?
smokey_the_bear 11y ago
Eh, I was an engineer in the bay area, and now a mommy in the bay area. I've seen the imbalance both ways in the exact same city. It's just a matter of your habits.