There are 400,000 more women than men in New York? Seriously? Why??
Yes, this is another thing I saw on MSNBC. I’m boring, I know.
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There are 400,000 more women than men in New York? Seriously? Why??
Yes, this is another thing I saw on MSNBC. I’m boring, I know.
Clarissa's Blog 
It’s heaven for upscale single males, I hear from my upscale single male friends.
Have a friend who couldn’t get the time of day from women when he was living in the Bay Area. He moved to the NYC offices of his company (IBM) and my god, he’s turned into fucking Caligula!
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Interesting. These women should go to Montreal and see the tables reversed. Crowds of fantastic men can’t find a date for years because of a shortage of women.
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Beat me to it stringer. Was going to say both san fran and even now seattle face this issue due to gender imbalance in tech.
Did they say the reason for the new york imbalanece clarissa? Hard to think of what would drive it, as finance is a little more male than female (although nothing like tech), so I can’t see why the imbalance is there in new york. Very curious for thoughts on why it is there!
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According to Steve Sailer New York has overtaken Paris as the American world capital of cinderella romance fantasies (now high powered young career women who bewitch even higher powered careeer men).
That sounds reasonable. From what I understand (with not first hand knoweldge) WDC attracts more career minded young women and NYC attracts those young women who hope to turn their careers into trophy-wifedom.
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So it’s the Sex and the City complex. Very curious.
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“From what I understand (with not first hand knoweldge) WDC attracts more career minded young women and NYC attracts those young women who hope to turn their careers into trophy-wifedom.”
Yeah, I’ve read that too. The idea that going to an elite liberal arts school in the north east being some sort of a prep to be a trophy wife to a rich banker in manhattan. Though I feel it happens much less now.
Also, DC isn’t branded as the city of dreams the way NYC is. These two cities attract people with very different aspirations. NYC/Brooklyn/Williamsburg is apparently the place to be if you’re unsure about what to do but have maybe a sliver of talent, so you fuck around doing menial ‘creative’ jobs that pay nothing, while you’re secretly working towards the next Great American Novel (having your parents financially support you in this heroic quest, of course).
DC is for type-A people who had their shit together since junior high.
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“NYC/Brooklyn/Williamsburg is apparently the place to be if you’re unsure about what to do but have maybe a sliver of talent, so you fuck around doing menial ‘creative’ jobs that pay nothing, while you’re secretly working towards the next Great American Novel”
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NYC/Brooklyn/Williamsburg is apparently the place to be if you’re unsure about what to do but have maybe a sliver of talent, so you fuck around doing menial ‘creative’ jobs that pay nothing, while you’re secretly working towards the next Great American Novel (having your parents financially support you in this heroic quest, of course).
Girls isn’t a documentary. NYC is different than the rest of the state (I hope). Not in my wildest fucking dreams would my parents have ever subsidized any time in NYC for such a scheme. No, there’s publishing, media, tv and theater and finance in NYC so you go where the jobs are.
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Interesting. Appreciate the response. I was kind of thinking something similar, but didn’t think it would be 100,000’s of women. guess i might be wrong!
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Paris has a different notoriety now: it’s the number one metro area worldwide that millionaires are fleeing …
Chicago is number three on that list, BTW.
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The numbers likely skew lower if you also include suburban New Jersey, but here’s a map from Richard Florida’s “Creative Class” Web site from sometime around 2008 which shows the difference then:
http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/whos_your_city/maps/#The_Singles_Map
“NY/Northern NJ: 210 820 more single women than men”
I also remember seeing a map from not too much later than that showing Chicago with about 50 000 more single women than men …
[… and as for where I am presently, I am in a moderately sized non-capital city centre with one of those pink dots over it, surrounded by a few smaller blue dots, and I can tell you the dynamic is considerably different from London or even Bristol …]
🙂
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