Along with the outdoors lifestyle and buzzing nightlife, the changing makeup of the city's residents is also working in your favour. Just as in the rest of Europe, people here are getting hitched later and starting to enjoy more single years than ever before the average age at which the Spanish marry rose from And, over the last few years, migration has brought about some key sociodemographic changes in the city.
So, for those singles with one eye out for a lasting relationship, it should be easier than ever to find a mate in the city. And yet, as singleton Rachel from the US says, "It's slim pickings out there.
The guys I meet who I click with and who have potential seem to always just be in town for the weekend. There are the study abroad guys who are usually too young or they're too wasted to take down my number correctly. Then there are the sleazy types who I see making their way across the dance floor and immediately grab my friends to escape outside for some 'fresh air'". So, what's a single person to do once being single has lost its shine?
Should they be sitting inside looking for love on their tablets or would they be better off taking the old-fashioned route of hitting a bar or joining a club? And, if they're foreign, how should they navigate the local dating scene? It seems there's no fit-all solution, but there's certainly no shortage of options. Ostensibly to make things easier for us, a multi-million-euro industry, offering a plethora of new technological tools, has sprung up to help us find our soulmate.
Any stigma once attached to online dating is long gone as today's twenty-somethings grew up with technology at their fingertips.
