atl-too many girls? (Atlanta, Washington: jobs, home, campus)

[evanharrison]

After telling 2 friends I was planning on moving to Atlanta this summer, they both insisted Atlanta was full of girls and I would hate the dating situation there. I find it a little hard to believe that a city as big as Atlanta could be overrun by females and have a poor dating scence.
Locals-Is this just another rumor/stereotype?

[atlantagreg30127]

It's not Paradise Island. Wonder Woman's sisters don't control the city. It's a large city - there are women AND men here.

There IS a rather large gay and lesbian community here, so maybe they were making a sarcastic reference to that. Some men might be intimidated if they run into what is stereotypically called a "lipstick lesbian" here only to be rejected (sounds like that may have happened to one of your friends, or maybe he tried to pick up a woman who turned out to be a drag queen and he's mad. LOL).

I'm sure if you're a quality guy who knows who to show respect to a woman, you won't have a problem. If you're what I guess people these days still call a "player" the local women might just laugh at you.

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by atlantagreg30127

I'm sure if you're a quality guy who knows who to show respect to a woman, you won't have a problem. If you're what I guess people these days still call a "player" the local women might just laugh at you.

Well said, Greg...it's so interesting that people in this forum try to dissect each city in terms of sexual politics when the truth is that they're pretty much the same vis a vis what you said in the quote above. Bravo, mon frere!

[evanharrison]

I think you may have misunderstood my question or I'm just confused.The post was written by a straight women who had been told that atlanta had way too many single women and i should look to raleigh-durham for a more equal city.
So is the stereotype true? Are there far more ladies in Atlanta?

[chip1980]

3 girls to one guy in atlanta

[atlantagreg30127]

I don't think there has ever been a "count" in the Atlanta area (at least none that the local media has every published) that goes into percentages. But statistically, whenever they do one in the larger metro cities in the lower 48 states, things almost always come close to being 50/50 anyway (men/women ratio). Maybe swing one way or the other some, but not much. Atlanta has such a variety of people moving into it every day, it's most likely going to have those numbers.

If you want a man really bad, move to Alaska. There's something like 10 men to every woman there. That should keep ya busy for a while.

[masonbarge]

Originally Posted by evanharrison

After telling 2 friends I was planning on moving to Atlanta this summer, they both insisted Atlanta was full of girls and I would hate the dating situation there. I find it a little hard to believe that a city as big as Atlanta could be overrun by females and have a poor dating scence.
Locals-Is this just another rumor/stereotype?

Here's the scientific breakdown. I hope it doesn't sound too cold and calculating -- you could find your soulmate pretty much anywhere -- but it might be to your benefit to look at it from a more scientific point of view. People tend to do better when they play the odds.

The larger and more prosperous the city, the more single women you will find in it. It's a natural thing -- I read a book about it recently. Large, prosperous cities have more of the kind of single men that single women find most desireable, from an objective point of view: better education, higher-end career path, family money, etc. Also, there are better job opportunities for educated women, more culture, more "society". You aren't going to find many black-tie charity balls, large national law firms, or high-end office jobs in Alaska.

So, the ratio tends to unbalance. The most unbalanced female/male ratio in the US is Washington, DC; the upper East Side in NYC is also extremely unbalanced.

If you want to find a lot of young single heterosexual men with jobs, go to Alaska.

You can find the figures online, but don't be surprised if the places you find most desirable have a lot of single women and are expensive.

BTW, be careful if you look at gross male/female ratios. A lot of men doesn't necessarily mean "a lot of single men looking for girlfriends/wives", since other phenomena can skew the figures, such as:
1) an older population (women outlive men, so a lot of very old people tends to be more female);
2) a lot of Central American or Asian "guest workers", e.g. Austin, San Diego, Honolulu (you get a disproportionate number of men who come to the US temporarily to make money to send home, or save money to bring their families to the US);
3) a large gay community (which tend to be disproportionately male), e.g. San Francisco, which is actually more lopsided that figures indicate.

If you want to meet the "most eligible" young single men, you have to expect competition.

[Go Blue 99]

Nice analysis Mason!

[darkone]

If you want access to single men in Atlanta go near the Tech Square area of midtown or within a 0.5 to 1 mile radius of GaTech campus. Men, mainly in their 20s, greatly outnumber women, but don't expect them to come to you ... you have to do your part. I think the rest of Atlanta is fairly even, ratio-wise.

[AutumnRose]

I assumed it was a man writing the first post, most women I know don't refer to themselves as girls anymore. I am not a part of the dating scene because I'm married but we've gone out our share of time...... It's a big city, there are a lot of people here and a good portion of them are men. :0)