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Rochester is another old rust belt area that's never a good thing for dating as you get older...however, it's still a decent sized metro with colleges and so on, and you're still young. I would think there's still options.
Rochester is another old rust belt area that's never a good thing for dating as you get older...however, it's still a decent sized metro with colleges and so on, and you're still young. I would think there's still options.
Good point. Rochester is a big college town, with at least a couple of 4-year colleges, and a university + a college that go through the PhD level. OP, contrary to what you'd have us believe, there are scads of single, child-free women in your age range; recent college grads, MA students, and PhD students. A few of those would be your age and a little older, even. In any case, the 23-29 demographic in the child-free female population is well-represented in Rochester.
It sounds like you need to figure out where in town those women hang out, and start hanging out there, and maybe attending college lectures or other college-sponsored events for the public. Some of those students are probably working in town, where you could run into them in non-college venues. Some could be involved in community projects or events. And aside from all those women, there should be some child-free single women in their mid-20's and up teaching in the city schools, and staffing city offices.
From that perspective, it sounds like you're not trying. Have you attended any singles events?
Last edited by Ruth4Truth; 09-22-2017 at 04:45 PM..
When women are single and 29 years, 364 days old there's a wall that apparently comes into play. I think it's like Trump's wall and just about as real. Sort of a wailing wall in practice, with women "hitting the wall", which seems unlikely to solve much. Then they engage in lots of lamentations over time spent with some character named Chad, which caused them to miss out on the Provider. Pretty sure the Provider is the patron saint of Nice Guys?
So the effect is that women disappear at 30, behind the wall apparently, although there is the wailing reminding us all of their plight.
Good point. Rochester is a big college town, with at least a couple of 4-year colleges, and a university + a college that go through the PhD level. OP, contrary to what you'd have us believe, there are scads of single, child-free women in your age range; recent college grads, MA students, and PhD students. A few of those would be your age and a little older, even. In any case, the 23-29 demographic in the child-free female population is well-represented in Rochester.
Good point. Rochester is a big college town, with at least a couple of 4-year colleges, and a university + a college that go through the PhD level. OP, contrary to what you'd have us believe, there are scads of single, child-free women in your age range; recent college grads, MA students, and PhD students. A few of those would be your age and a little older, even. In any case, the 23-29 demographic in the child-free female population is well-represented in Rochester.
My personal experience living in college towns is the colleges tend to be social islands. A 27 year old townie is going to be invisible to the undergrads. Dean Wormer's wife isn't available.
My personal experience living in college towns is the colleges tend to be social islands. A 27 year old townie is going to be invisible to the undergrads. Dean Wormer's wife isn't available.
That's why he needs to enroll.
Group projects galore ... study sessions with that undergrad girl who's "more mature" than the rest ...
My personal experience living in college towns is the colleges tend to be social islands. A 27 year old townie is going to be invisible to the undergrads. Dean Wormer's wife isn't available.
That's why I left the undergrads out of it, and focused on the recent grads (some of whom have become townies in local jobs) and grad student sectors, for the OP. He's only 27. No reason he couldn't date women a few years younger than him. I doubt they'd all be married a year or two out of college.
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