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Rock Talk, Vol. IX
We've long known that Houston was a popular place for singles to relocate (and rightly so), but here's some new news: according to this map, we've got more than our fair share of single men. A LOT more than our fair share - that big blue dot = 20,000 - 40,000 more single men than women. Men in Austin and the DFW metropolis suffer similarly. So why the disparity? Creative Class commenters had a few ideas. Does it have something to do with immigration?
There are more single men in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and San Diego because there are high concentrations of illegal aliens in these communities. (Men who come across to support their families, but don't bring their significant others.)
Maybe, but doesn't the phrase "support their familes" sort of rule these guys out of the single category? Or maybe it has something to do with the job offerings here:
Seattle has grown to be a huge industry standard, not just because of Microsoft, but because of the many Aeronautical/mechanical manufacturing/engineering opportunities. The same is true of central Arizona and of Austin, Houston and Dallas. All of those area's have seen enormous growth in both electrical engineering and software related fields in the last 10 to 15 years.
Or maybe Texas just rocks:
I'm not so sure what Texas holds for these young men, but it could be a combination of big oil in Houston, big funkiness in Austin, and just plain big money in Dallas.
We'll just write it off to opportunity urbanism (since that's so trendy), and leave it at that.
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Maybe "what Texas holds for these young men" is other young men. I don't know how people in the 21st century can be so oblivious to gay people. Especially the so-called "creative class" commenters.
what an interesting map. i guess women really are from venus, er, the east coast.
Are there that many more gay men than lesbians though?
This reminds me, one of the things I want to do before I die is go to the Wurstfest in New Braunfels, and look around, and turn to whoever I am there with and say, "Geez, it's a total sausage festival here."