Dallas Has More Single Men Than Women. Which, Like, Sucks, Dude.

Found out from looking here that a couple of days ago, Richard Florida -- and stay creative classy, Richard Florida -- posted to his Web site "A Singles Map of the United States," in which he breaks down "which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) -- and...

By Robert Wilonsky

April 2, 2008

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Found out from looking here that a couple of days ago, Richard Florida -- and stay creative classy, Richard Florida -- posted to his Web site "A Singles Map of the United States," in which he breaks down "which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) -- and what that means for the country." (Coulda sworn I've seen this before, incidentally.) Dallas, not so incidentally, is represented by a rather large blue dot, which means single men way outnumber single women in our town (by some 40,000 or so), which you'd know if you spent 15 seconds in the Ghostbar. --Robert Wilonsky

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