Cincinnati....A bad place for dating? (colleges, live in, statistics)

[badguykc]

Originally Posted by Cincy-Rise

I've got some friends that could really help you out in this area ... just shoot me a PM and I'll forward you their numbers. It sounds like it might be some things you could work on in the "swagger" department?

No thanks, C-R. I left Cincinnati long ago, mainly due to people like YOU.

[Eugene80]

It's like that everywhere. Up until their 40s, the dating scene is very rough for men, because there are more single men than women.

There are 106 boys for every 100 girls at birth, and the ratio doesn't balance out until later in life. Young men, unless they are tall and good-looking, usually have to wait before things can start looking up romantically for them.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by Eugene80

It's like that everywhere. Up until their 40s, the dating scene is very rough for men, because there are more single men than women.

There are 106 boys for every 100 girls at birth, and the ratio doesn't balance out until later in life. Young men, unless they are tall and good-looking, usually have to wait before things can start looking up romantically for them.

I dunno know about that.

In Cincinnati here are the overall numbers:

Males: 157,172 (47.2%)Females: 175,841 (52.8%)

Further, a guy is datable if he is not horrible and has a good job or is attractive. Women, not so much.

[badguykc]

Originally Posted by wilson1010

I dunno know about that.

In Cincinnati here are the overall numbers:

Males: 157,172 (47.2%)Females: 175,841 (52.8%)

Further, a guy is datable if he is not horrible and has a good job or is attractive. Women, not so much.

Don't you mean "has a good job AND/or is attractive"? This IS Cincinnati we're talking about, you know.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by badguykc

Don't you mean "has a good job AND/or is attractive"? This IS Cincinnati we're talking about, you know.

LOL! If he has a good job and is attractive, dating isn't his problem, its keeping them straight and apart from each other.

[goyguy]

...AND went to St X or Moeller (or Ursuline Academy, or McAuley, or St Ursula, depending on gender) - or Walnut Hills or one of the elite suburban high schools. That's a bizarre thing about Cincy, this emphasis on where you spent grades 9 through 12. When I talk to people from there as part of my job they ask me this when I tell them that's where I grew up. WTF!!! You could be a Stanford graduate, but all bets are off if you were the valedictorian at Taft or Purcell/Marian. I stay in the game 'cause I graduated from Wyoming High.
Woe betide an out-of-towner, unless they're from a place that's famous for the right reasons.

[skippercollector]

When people ask me where I went to school (I'm not even referring to dating, just in general), I always answer with Northern Kentucky University, because I know it drives the other person nuts. I know perfectly well that the answer is both correct and wrong at the same time.

[Eugene80]

Originally Posted by wilson1010

I dunno know about that.

In Cincinnati here are the overall numbers:

Males: 157,172 (47.2%)Females: 175,841 (52.8%)

Those numbers are because women outlive men, so there's more older women, but they don't describe what's happening at "dating ages"

Take a look here
The New, Interactive Singles Map. Or, Looking for Love in All the Statistically Wrong Places.

Adjust the slider bar at the top to restrict the age range so it excludes older folks (e.g. 50s-60s) and you'll see there are severe shortages of women at dating ages, particularly the prime dating ages.

Further, a guy is datable if he is not horrible and has a good job or is attractive. Women, not so much.

Depends on the operational sex ratio. If we put you in "Man Jose" or "Menver" someplace, not to mention Alaska, then even being a millionaire with reasonably good looks won't necessarily guarantee excellent romantic prospects. Whereas women of any shape and form would be prized.

[badguykc]

Originally Posted by goyguy

...AND went to St X or Moeller (or Ursuline Academy, or McAuley, or St Ursula, depending on gender) - or Walnut Hills or one of the elite suburban high schools. That's a bizarre thing about Cincy, this emphasis on where you spent grades 9 through 12. When I talk to people from there as part of my job they ask me this when I tell them that's where I grew up. WTF!!! You could be a Stanford graduate, but all bets are off if you were the valedictorian at Taft or Purcell/Marian. I stay in the game 'cause I graduated from Wyoming High.
Woe betide an out-of-towner, unless they're from a place that's famous for the right reasons.

All of these dating sites need to put an asterisk* and a disclaimer on their Cincinnati singles sections...you know, like car ads do. And they should hire Goyguy and Wilson to write it.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by Eugene80

Those numbers are because women outlive men, so there's more older women, but they don't describe what's happening at "dating ages"

Take a look here
The New, Interactive Singles Map. Or, Looking for Love in All the Statistically Wrong Places.

Adjust the slider bar at the top to restrict the age range so it excludes older folks (e.g. 50s-60s) and you'll see there are severe shortages of women at dating ages, particularly the prime dating ages.



Depends on the operational sex ratio. If we put you in "Man Jose" or "Menver" someplace, not to mention Alaska, then even being a millionaire with reasonably good looks won't necessarily guarantee excellent romantic prospects. Whereas women of any shape and form would be prized.

Nice theory, but I'm not buying it.

You are gonna have to show some US Census data for Cincinnati befor eI buy into your claim.

Here is what I found:

The overall difference nationally is as follows:


Male Total Population 138,053,563 49.06%


Female 143,368,343 50.94%


Nationally, the only difference at dating age male/female


20-24 9,687,814 3.44% / 9,276,187 3.30%

25-29 9,798,760 3.48% / 9,582,576 3.41%

30-34 10,321,769 3.67% / 10,188,619 3.62%

35-39 11,318,696 4.02% / 11,387,968 4.05%

So basically, Cincinnati is off the charts with lots more women than men much more so than the national average. What you see above is the distribution from the whole US population showing the effect of women living longer than men. And, the net result of it is only a small part of the difference in Cincinnati's make/female population. I'd say that the famale to male ration in Cincinnati is upside down compared to the national average by about 2-3% at each age bracket. The opposite of what your web site shows.

But, if you can find actual male.female populations for Cincinnati at the US Census.gov I'd reconsider.