| CNN.com names State College #1 City for Singles
Posted: 8/28/2007 6:07:56 AM | | This is my first forum post ever. I read some news this morning that just made me laugh hysterically at it's irony. As I was toodling around this morning on CNN.com I saw a ranking of the top 25 cities to be single in and State College, Pa topped the entire list. I don't know where CNN is getting their research but I have not found this to be the most "swingiest place to be single" as they put it, at least as a thirtysomething gal in this town. What do other State Collegians think? I think I may have to email CNN!!! I don't concur! | |
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| CNN.com names State College #1 City for Singles
Posted: 9/11/2007 9:05:54 AM | They're just including the State College people in the statistics, who probably don't mix with the general population. More likely, it's another statistic designed to encourage more people to move into the area, because there aren't any local singles there at all.
The news has just become another method of propaganda. | |
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| CNN.com names State College #1 City for Singles
Posted: 4/20/2009 7:48:03 PM | | This is soo funny...I've honestly been complaining about this because I am 47 years old and I used to think that with all the "20 somethings " college students that I was a little too old for this crowd...but then I realized that even though we are all what seems in the minority age wise it is all made up by the fact that we all seem to be single!...I think we all have different reasons but think about why you are in "happy valley" to begin with...we all must be cereer minded people or surely we would have all moved on to the "big world" out there...I think there are a lot of us out there! | |
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| CNN.com names State College #1 City for Singles
Posted: 4/21/2009 8:19:11 AM | Easy explanation: Their definition of best city for singles is based on something as simple as 'most single/total population' or possibly 'most couplings formed / time'. These simplistic criteria would, for obvious reasons, favor college towns......and the ones at the top would most likely be those with the highest student / non-student ratio.
As testified by the post-student age crowd......there should probably be a qualifier such as 'best city for 18-26 singles' (college towns), 'best city for 65-85 singles' (the central corridor of florida?) etc.
Or, as scorpion suggested, it could of course be some propaganda campaign. Although it seems to me that the towns on the list could probably get a better turnout if they tried to attract businesses to their town and just let the people follow. I don't see people moving to State College, Pa to meet singles / start a family, without some type of employment waiting for them.....regardless of how many singles there are in the area. | |
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| CNN.com names State College #1 City for Singles
Posted: 4/21/2009 3:30:19 PM | well, i have to admit that i like state college more than some of the other places i've lived. centre county does a good job of preserving green spaces and making them accessable. it has a pretty good music scene, as many college towns probably do. and i actually know more permanent residents now.
however, it costs and arm and a leg to live here. everything costs so much more than other places. cost-wise it seems more like a large city. but i suppose the students, using the parents' credit cards, will pay damn near anything.
and the weather sucks. i read somewhere that state college, pa gets the second highest amount of annual rainfall of anywhere in the contiguous u.s. i believe that too!
but, it also offers cultural advantages and opportunities. and i like how you can go to a museum in the morning and hit an amish market in the afternoon.
and colyer lake? gorgeous!
so, i don't know about singles, but i'd rather live in centre county than some of the other places i've lived. | |
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