City data dating

Nationwide, single young men outnumber their female counterparts.

The overall male-to-female ratio is 10 among single adults ages 25 to 34.

Joining Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Copenhagen, and Montreal, Austin is praised as the perfect town for sad singles to find love. Instead of noting, say, our younger population, reputation as a creative and technology hub or our penchant for partying like rockstars, BBC has some truly bizarre reasons for naming Austin one of the world's best cities for dating.

First, BBC notes that moving to Austin can cause "culture shock" because everyone is too polite.

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BBC has named the five best cities in the world for dating — and Austin is one of them.

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But when we limit the young men to those who are , the ratio falls to 84 employed single men for every 100 single women.

(We count both young adults who have never been married and those who have been previously married as single or unmarried.) So, which large metro areas have the best “marriage market”?

According to the article, Lambert's Downtown Barbecue is one of the "hottest dating spots," and BBC suggests catching live music in the 2nd Street District.

If that doesn't tickle your fancy, BBC makes the novel suggestion of watching the bats under the Congress Avenue bridge.