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Old 05-24-2012, 11:31 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Hi all! I'm looking to move to Portland, because not only does it look beautiful (a little worried about the rain but I lived in Boston so I can hack it prolly) but also because apparently there is a good percentage of single guys there. I'm 33 and live in NY. Guys kill it here, and I'm not sure a lot of them are into settling down. I am though. I just want a good guy. I strong good dad material guy. I heard Portland had a bunch of guys but most of them are losers, druggies, hippies, jobless, don't wanna get married, and feminie. Please tell me that's not true!If so, should I move to Texas? Or any ideas where I should relocate to meet some great guys who are marriage age and into it. I was thinking Austin (but maybe too young), or Denver?
ANy advice helps.
Thanks

 
Old 05-24-2012, 11:46 PM
 
Location: Baker City, Oregon
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..............I'm 33 and live in NY. Guys kill it here, and I'm not sure a lot of them are into settling down. I am though. I just want a good guy. I strong good dad material guy...........
Greater New York......the largest metropolitan area in the USA......more than 18 million people........about 9 million males. If you can't find a suitable man there, do you really think you will better luck in Portland......or anywhere else?
 
Old 05-25-2012, 01:00 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Hmm...really? I think you must have misunderstood.
The problem I think IS that there are so many people. There is ahuge single scene and lots of us.Men can play here well into their 40's and not get bored. It is proven that people settle down once they are bored of the single scene, or once it dwindles and they start to feel like the old dude at the bar. In Ny there are plenty of singles to make you feel ok with being single. I think in other, smaller, communities, much like the south, people settle down a lot earlier in life.
It's not that I can't find a man here, I've dated plenty, but I'm looking for something different then this lifestyle here. A slower smaller type, where people are ready to settle down, at least more likely. One of my good friends just got married here, so I'm not saying it doesn't happen,I would just like to move somewhere where the odds are more in my favor. Hopefully that clears that up...
So if anyone has actual insight on the dating scene in portland, or other smaller cities...please don't be shy
 
Old 05-25-2012, 01:06 AM
 
Location: Southwest Washington
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It is a verifiable fact that every single man in Portland is exactly the same!
 
Old 05-25-2012, 01:12 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Care to enlighten me in what ways exactly?
 
Old 05-25-2012, 07:47 AM
 
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It is proven that people settle down once they are bored of the single scene, or once it dwindles and they start to feel like the old dude at the bar.
So you want a man who will marry you because he's bored of being single?
 
Old 05-25-2012, 08:05 AM
 
Location: Nutmeg State
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Greater New York......the largest metropolitan area in the USA......more than 18 million people........about 9 million males. If you can't find a suitable man there, do you really think you will better luck in Portland......or anywhere else?
Have you never seen this?
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Old 05-25-2012, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Nutmeg State
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OP, if your number one priority is marriage I think Austin or Denver, or any other midwestern city will be better than a West Coast city. The West Coast has a kind of delayed life thing going on, where almost everything, marriage, buying a house, kids, jobs are delayed for years. There is definitely a feeling that it's okay and even cool to be single in your 30s here, which is definitely not the case in a lot of the US.
I think a lot of people here are into doing their own thing, and if a relationship happens, great, and if not they just keep doing their own thing.
Frankly Portland would be pretty low on my list of cities I would want to be single in.
 
Old 05-25-2012, 09:06 AM
 
Location: the Beaver State
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That explains why I get hit on so much when I'm on the east coast!

I just thought I was maturing and the salt and pepper was making the women swoon, turns out they're just desperate!
 
Old 05-25-2012, 01:43 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Young single men? Silicon valley, but they are absorbed in their careers.

I agree with an earlier poster, the mid-west would have more single men interested in marriage. The economy in the mid-west is doing well too.
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