The Geography Of Dating Update

By Patrick
I posted a map by Richard Florida a few days ago showing the number singles across the US by gender. Ezra Klein takes a look at Julio Gonzalez Altamirano's reworking of Florida's map (above), manipulated to only include the "creative class," which is defined as educated 18 to 44 year-olds. The results suggest that you might not want to move across the country just to snag a date. While the new analysis still doesn't consider sexual orientation, an unfortunate oversight, this rings true:

Florida's map vastly oversimplifies the dating game. If you're a computer nerd, and want to find friends and lovers able to quote XKCD comics back at you, you probably want to be in a tech-heavy city on the West Coast. If you're a political bloggers who wants to find attractive policy obsessives, DC will do ya fine. If you're a literary snob, you might want to check out New York...[Dating is] about compatibility, which is why people seek out creative classes oriented towards their interests and lifestyle, rather than mindlessly looking for a large number of widows per capita.