Remember Sex and the City? Remember how all the 30-something women would endlessly complain about how there were no good single straight men in New York?
It turns out that they were right. Idle and bored on Sunday night, I took a trick from my undergrad thesis and constructed a search in the Census Bureau's American FactFinder. In New York County (that's Manhattan) in 2000 there were 115,761 men between the ages of 21 and 29 and 132,183 women. That's nearly 107 20-something women for every 100 20-something men.
So what's the problem?
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