That determination is based on 32 metrics, including the number of single people in the city, the online and mobile dating opportunities here, the unemployment rate, the number of restaurants and the percentage of vaccinated individuals. Another analysis, this one done by online moving assistance company Porch, concluded that the Seattle metropolitan area, including Tacoma and Bellevue, is the 14th best for singles.
Neither study includes information about the culture of dating in Seattle, the friendliness of the inhabitants or the weather that can turn even the most jovial into hermits.
Additionally, both studies based their rankings on what millennials are doing — as if no one in any other age group is part of the dating scene. The focus in one of the studies on the ratio of men to women also oversimplifies the complex roles gender and sexual orientation can play in the dating scene. Sure it is! The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times. By Christine Clarridge. This must be why some people put zero stock in these types of surveys and studies.
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