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Seattle is not for young people. The dude pool is 2:1 in a market where beer is regularly 6.50 a pint.
by captrh 11y ago
Seattle is not for young people. The dude pool is 2:1 in a market where beer is regularly 6.50 a pint.
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- tacos 11y agoMarrying young and endless dinner parties where first-time homeowners proudly declare "granite countertops!" like checking that box on a list of materials is some major achievement. A bit painful. But there's a dirty, edgy, interesting indoor culture there caused by the shitty weather. It sprouts up around everything from sex to music to art on occasion. Go find it.
- edgyswingset 11y ago> "granite countertops!" Funnily enough, most of the time it's not made of granite at all.
- Kluny 11y agoIs that the only option available for married life? Surely it's possible to marry someone who is interesting and continue doing interesting things after you're married?
- placeybordeaux 11y ago> everything from sex to music to art on occasion.
- LLWM 11y agoMost of us don't see any reason to continue doing interesting things beyond making ourselves look appealing during courtship.
- Kluny 11y agoReally?
- ulysses 11y agoIn the 2010 census, the female population of Seattle was right at 50%. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html
- xxpor 11y agoThe 2010 census is fairly useless for Seattle at this point. Almost 100,000 people have moved here since then (16%)
- ulysses 11y ago2015 estimate: 662,400 2010 estimate: 608,658 Assuming every one of those 53,742 people was male, the ratio would go from 50% female to 45.9% female.
- zardo 11y agoIt if I can't blame my dating troubles on demographics I might have to consider that I am less desirable a mate than I like to imagine.
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- ahh 11y agoTry breaking that down by age and marital status. See for instance: http://jonathansoma.com/singles/#1/3/2/0 http://jonathansoma.com/singles/#1/3/2/0 It certainly isn't 2:1 - that was hyperbole - but it's bad. And it doesn't actually take a large absolute difference to produce huge changes in behavior. A standard economic model of this fact is explained nicely here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/revisiting-the-marriage-supermarket.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/rev... In the efficient market limit, an arbitrarily small perturbation in the effective gender ratio produces arbitrarily large changes in outcomes.
- devindotcom 11y agoWrong on all counts
- captrh 11y agoYour flikr is interesting but its so typical Seattle. Lots of fake shit and old dude perspective.
- devindotcom 11y agomade my day
- adrianpike 11y agoAm I correct in inferring from your second sentence that by "young people", you mean "single, straight men"?
- diogenescynic 11y ago“You know, there’s still some people out there that say "What does being PC really mean?” Well, I’ll tell you what it means. It means you love nothin’ more than beer, workin’ out, and that feelin’ you get when you rhetorically defend a marginalized community from systems of oppression."