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Best Places To Be Single
1. Washington, D.C.-Baltimore
2. Miami
3. Chicago
4. Los Angeles
5. Atlanta
6. San Francisco-Oakland
7. Houston
8. New York
9. Dallas-Fort Worth
10. Philadelphia
11. San Diego
12. Denver-Boulder
13. Minneapolis-St. Paul
14. St. Louis
15. Austin
16. Boston
17. Seattle
18. New Orleans
19. Raleigh-Durham
20. Orlando
21. Phoenix
22. Columbus
23. Tampa
24. Milwaukee
25. San Antonio
26. Las Vegas
27. Detroit
28. Nashville
29. Norfolk
30. Sacramento
31. Portland
32. Charlotte
33. Indianapolis
34. Cleveland
35. Kansas City
36. Salt Lake City
37. Providence
38. Greensboro-Winston-Salem
39. Pittsburgh
40. Cincinnati
Sources: AOL Digital City; ACCRA; Forbes; McGill University Planning Office; Woods & Poole; U.S. Census
To put together our first annual guide to the best places for the single life, we looked at each of the most populous 40 metropolitan areas as defined by the U.S. Census. (Although we're sure it's a great place to be single, we weren't able to rank San Juan, the 20th biggest metro area, because it was so difficult to collect good data on it. So we replaced it with Raleigh-Durham.) We took a data-driven approach, gathering stats on the number of other singles, nightclubs, job growth and cost of living. After tallying up all the figures and throwing in our own (lightly weighted), subjective buzz factor--voilà: The Washington, D.C.-Baltimore metroplex came out on top, thanks to the area's multitude of museums, hordes of recent grads and booming night life.
Being single means going out a lot--both to eat and to drink--so we got our friends over at AOL Digital City to count the number of nightclubs, bars and restaurants in each metro area. But the solo life is about more than burgers and hangovers. So Digital City and Montreal's McGill University helped us add up the number of museums, sports teams, university population and theaters (of the live actor variety). Keep in mind, New Orleans and Austin, Tex., funksters--these rankings are based on quantity, not quality, which is why your hip cities rank relatively low on the social scale. That may prompt a sneer, but we needed a standard measure.
Fun doesn't pay for itself, so the folks at Woods & Poole Economics, headquartered in Washington, D.C., projected job growth for all 40 places over the next five years. Economic researchers at Arlington, Va.-based ACCRA gave us an estimate of how expensive it is to be single in all of these spots--based on apartment rents, the cost of pizza, movie tickets and a six-pack of Heineken. Last of all, we added a Forbes buzz factor to account for public perception. Sorry, Cincinnati.
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