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Old 02-27-2011, 10:22 PM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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Was just doing some research for something completely unrelated to what I'm going to ask here, but I found this very interesting: when looking at the cities with the highest male-female ratios in the United States, five of the top ten were in California. Does anybody have a guess why these five cities would have that distinction?

1. Salinas (113.7 males for every 100 females)
4. Santa Ana (107.7)
7. Sunnyvale (106.0)
9. Costa Mesa (105.0)
10. Oxnard (104.6)
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Old 02-27-2011, 11:24 PM
 
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Why would females want to live in a city with a bunch of nerds?
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Old 02-27-2011, 11:32 PM
 
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Sunnyvale is obvious. It is Silicon Valley.

Hasn't everyone ever been to any engineering class? Sausage party.
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Old 02-27-2011, 11:52 PM
 
Location: Escondido, CA
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Salinas is a farming town, many adult residents are undocumented immigrants working the lettuce fields in Salinas Valley. Those are more likely to be male than female. If you look at the age & sex structure, children up to the age of 16 are equally represented, but 20 to 40 year olds skew male as far as 125:100.

The same is probably the case in Santa Ana. The population of Santa Ana is officially 50% foreign born. How many of those foreign born are illegal immigrants, anyone's guess.
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Old 02-28-2011, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Orange County, CA
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In places with a high illegal alien presence the male/female ratio tends to be high simply because far more men than women are illegals. Another factor that will twist the numbers way out of proportion is a town that has a prison. For an example, just looking at the raw numbers shows Tehachapi with 69% males, more than a 2-1 male/female ratio, and a large minority population. Reason is that the mens prison is included in the census. Going the other way, Chowchilla shows 66% females. Not a bachelors paradise, it has a womens prison.
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