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Found it interesting reading through the 7 pages on this article.... Interesting enough to sign up for c-d. I have lived here since I was about 4 years old and am currently 29. I too think this is probably one of if not the roughest areas to meet single people. IE my last serious relationship was 3 1/2 years ago. I don't quite fall under some of the categories you talk about as my political mindset is mostly I don't care/republican (can't even remember if that is liberal or not...) and I am religious.
The one thing I have found on meetup is that predominantly the singles groups are filled by upper 30+ age group. If you need info on that I have been to a few of them let me know and I will send you info and they will welcome you with open arms.
I don't drink so can not tell you of the night-life other than I have not meet anyone who is to happy with it yet.
However once that tough area is finished there is no greater place to raise a family. Crime rate is very low and people are generally very friendly. That being said it does not make it easier for those of us that are single.
Not to be insulting, but the saturation of religion in the area makes anything other than a friendly handshake an act of social deviance. Not to say that's strictly what dating is all about, but unless you're looking for that wholesome, prepackaged Americana relationship from all the 50s TV shows, you're pretty much stuck to the downtown scene - which is fine unless you're a grown up.
Speaking as someone happily maried, part of growing up in realizing that this is the sort of relationship that actually works and has meaning and depth. You looked at the divorce rate of people dating in the 1950s?
Speaking as someone happily maried, part of growing up in realizing that this is the sort of relationship that actually works and has meaning and depth. You looked at the divorce rate of people dating in the 1950s?
Wow.
Wonder how much higher the divorce rate would have been if it weren't as socially taboo, and there wasn't so much constraint placed upon women?
Wonder how much higher the divorce rate would have been if it weren't as socially taboo, and there wasn't so much constraint placed upon women?
Oh, yeah. Constraint and Taboo. (As if the latter was necessarily a bad thing). If you think relationships are as healthy today with the preconceived notion of divorce now firmly implanted into the minds of all those who enter them, well...
I'll note the growing demand for child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists as testament to your "wow" factor.
Oh, yeah. Constraint and Taboo. (As if the latter was necessarily a bad thing). If you think relationships are as healthy today with the preconceived notion of divorce now firmly implanted into the minds of all those who enter them, well...
I'll note the growing demand for child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists as testament to your "wow" factor.
Yeah, it was healthy for women to stay in relationships because they feared social rejection or physical violence...
There's nothing you can cite to that would support your theory to the rejection of mine. On the other hand, I can cite to entire libraries which support my idea that there were social barriers in place during the first half of the 20th century and earlier which prevented potential or wanted divorces.
Let's keep it on topic. "Societal repression of women" is an interesting topic, but suited for a thread in another area of CDF guys...
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Established a group....
