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Since this got bumped up, I'll add that I started doing a couple sports leagues with Gameday (Gameday Sports Leagues: Bowling, Cornhole, Dodgeball, Flag Football, Kickball - Boise, Meridian, Nampa ID). I'm currently in a bowling league and cornhole and it's awesome. There's a good mix of singles and couples without the more standard date type setting that puts singles in that awkward/meat market position. They aren't overly competitive either which I liked better than some of the other sports stuff in the valley. They'd be a good option too for people.
And if people are interested in dating, I know the bowling team I played with for a couple leagues ended up having a couple get together through it. My friend (the girl of the now couple) mentioned once that it was nice to have several weeks to get to know the guy without the dating pressure/awkwardness.
Seems to me like Boise is a place where couples and families go to settle down. It sounds like a lot of people that move there are already together and looking for smaller town life that isn't too costly. That probably doesn't help the dating scene there as it's not a big place anyway. The traffic going in is already taken, while other people might be getting out that have lived there a long time. Seems awesome if you already have a mate though. Just a smaller pool of people and a bunch already settled down sounds tough for singles.
There are a lot of single people in Boise, from young professionals to middle aged people. It is all about being in the right place at the right time, or finding like minded friends to hang out with. Boise has a young population.
Someone posted elsewhere the young population is reducing with the kids leaving, and the older population increasing with the retirees and families coming in to settle. Singles in their 30's? That would be my question ; )
Someone posted elsewhere the young population is reducing with the kids leaving, and the older population increasing with the retirees and families coming in to settle. Singles in their 30's? That would be my question ; )
This is an on-going problem in Idaho. The facts are that the jobs available in Idaho are low wage and undesirable...there are a ton of call centers in Idaho and the Boise Area. That is not a fun job. This may KEEP people in Idaho because of family or they don't want to go someplace else, but it won't bring anyone to Idaho. So now those moving to Idaho are mostly retirees. I am in my late 20s, grew up in Boise and visit often. Most of my friends live elsewhere, unless they didn't go to college or married right out of college and moved back to raise a family. Singles and DINKs still live in other places.
"Boise-philes" will argue pretty much anything that may have some type of negative connotation towards Boise. In fact, I brought this topic up on another board and the moderator deleted it. This isn't helpful as people need to acknowledge an issue to change it. The City of Boise seems to want to move forward, but being in Idaho that isn't easy.
Anyways, my point with all this isn't that "Boise sucks." It is that Boise could attract a better variety of people. But many may find this to be a negative so that is perhaps why things stay the way they are. Which I get, exponential growth can be frustrating and saddening for locals.
I can see it as a tough issue. I keep reading the people that do want to move to Boise are families wanting to settle down, or again retirees. I don't hear a lot of younger people saying they want to move to the Boise area. I am in my mid 30's and single these days (no kids), and have friends and family in that area that are plugged into the community. The trouble about moving there is that it is in contention with my desire to move back to San Diego as well, which though has its own problems, has a larger base of people to work with, speaking about dating of course. The plus for Boise is that I do sense a more community based vibe in the city, which is an easy connection to people. My other option, San Diego, insanely spread out. No three degrees of separation there so to speak.
This is an on-going problem in Idaho. The facts are that the jobs available in Idaho are low wage and undesirable...there are a ton of call centers in Idaho and the Boise Area. That is not a fun job. This may KEEP people in Idaho because of family or they don't want to go someplace else, but it won't bring anyone to Idaho. So now those moving to Idaho are mostly retirees. I am in my late 20s, grew up in Boise and visit often. Most of my friends live elsewhere, unless they didn't go to college or married right out of college and moved back to raise a family. Singles and DINKs still live in other places.
"Boise-philes" will argue pretty much anything that may have some type of negative connotation towards Boise. In fact, I brought this topic up on another board and the moderator deleted it. This isn't helpful as people need to acknowledge an issue to change it. The City of Boise seems to want to move forward, but being in Idaho that isn't easy.
Anyways, my point with all this isn't that "Boise sucks." It is that Boise could attract a better variety of people. But many may find this to be a negative so that is perhaps why things stay the way they are. Which I get, exponential growth can be frustrating and saddening for locals.
I will say I find the women in Boise attractive enough (more so than my own area), seems like a lot of outdoor fit people. The girls I find cute were the ones running on the greenbelt or hiking/walking their dogs on the hill. The question is how many of them are single lol.
Boiseans are pretty attractive, active and fit. So there's a plus!
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