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Answer (1 of 31): Oversaturation. Plain and simple, a woman’s inbox is filled and entangled with hundreds of messages from men. Because dating in real life can be hard, online dating is exponentially difficult. Meeting women in your local area is easy, but simply Dating Site On In Seattle Washington meeting a woman doesn’t mean that you’re going to get laid and get a girlfriend. When you go to places where you can meet local women, the most important thing that you must do when you approach is actively make the Dating Site On In Seattle Washington. Seattle, home to Amazon and legions of wealthy tech workers, is a notoriously difficult city to govern and one with a fickle electorate. The last three mayors elected by the people have not served. IMatch is the premiere staffing and recruiting agency in Seattle, Washington. We specialize in the Sales, Marketing, Technical, Finance, and Accounting Industries.
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- Lynnwood, WA
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anyone know? any out there that don't cost money? this is not for me btw :)
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I'm perpetually single and usually don't even try with these sites. The Stranger's Love Lab seems to have the better looking and somewhat 'cooler' looking folks though. I think it's cheap to join too. I worked there and didn't have to pay, but I think it's like $10.
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Heidi, if it's for an attractive female friend, okcupid.com. Otherwise, plentyoffish.com.
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did you try Sadandlonely.com ? or CryinginmysockdroorinFet… oh and then there is Tiredofporn.com
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Love Lab! I am over a month into something great....It's free to browse, but you have to pay in order to contact someone.
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here is Carly's breakdown of dating websites:
E-harmony: it's WORK to get to actually communicate with potential dates. Dates I went on there was LITTLE to NO chemistry, and for nearly $40 a month, I say meh.
Match: Match gives you the chance to search around for potential dates. Its pretty fun, although no cheap. Side note: Carly was in date mode in the past two months, and match gave me a lot of dates. I dated someone I met on match for four years. This time around... meh, and I am no longer on it.
OKCupid: I just joined this two weeks ago and met a cool dude. It's free. But there are a hell of a lot of weirdos.
This message was sponsored by Carly, the perpetual singleton.- Seattle, WA
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oh and don't forget fakeprofiles&penispics .com it's like all dating websites
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As one of the weirdos of which Carly speaks, I still advocate OkCupid, although I may just be clinging to the fact that it was great in 2007.
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lol thanks guys. and no i'm not looking for a female lova haha
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I say avoid chemistry.com at all costs. It's run by match.com and I think it's basically their answer to eharmony. I tried it and didn't get one date--and it's expensive too. I like match.com's site, but haven't had much luck there. I think okcupid is better and I've met some more interesting people on that site (and it's pretty easy to screen out all the poly folks if you take the time to answer some tests/questions). Haven't had a lot of luck with the stranger in the past--felt like it was kind of a meat market.
Of course, take this all with a grain of salt from Mr. permasingle.- Cambridge, MA
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Carly, despite your assertion (in triplicate!), I assure you I *am* weird, although probably not in the way you originally meant.
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PS: about chemistry.com, I think that match.com is running a promo to get their subscribers to 'join' (transfer their match profile) for free--so the site is flooded with a bunch of non-paying people who will likely never respond to you. If eharmony appeals to you, I'd use them and not chemistry.
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wow, this question has come up a lot lately.- Lynnwood, WA
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*erases the 'lately' on Brian's post*
ahh..there, now it's an accurate description.- Redmond, WA
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I think these threads are weird. no offense but asking about dating advice from strangers so you can find strangers to date. you probably cut one of the steps out.. could go out with someone you know in real life. a person you work with or talk to. I think this happens too much in Seattle where they go through this process of anti-social dating techniques.
In real life they act to coi or too good for other people or not ask people they are truly are interested in and in the end they go on line and complain about being single and go through the online dating to talk to strangers that they would not approach in real life.
And my statements are not about Heidi but just a generalization of my thoughts/- Seattle, WA
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Just speaking from my own experience, sometimes it's hard to meet people if you don't live where you work (or in my case, work where you live), and you aren't really into the bar scene, and you're new(er) in town.
I don't think everyone who uses online dating (or at least not the people I met or talked to through Love Lab) are on the site because they're afraid to talk to someone or feel they're too good for anyone else. And there's something kind of helpful about being able to see what others are interested in, and see if that fits with you. Of course you ultimately have to connect in person to see if you click, but nevertheless I think that's a cool feature.- Sammamish, WA
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Hannah's right on. Except for me, in college I majored in computer science... so it was a freakin' sausage fest. Now that I'm working, its all old people or mainly men. Median age in my group is like 45ish. ::sigh:: Also I dont like clubbing or going out to bars, not my type of scene.
I've tried OkCupid (didnt meet anyone crazy), eHarmony (met a crazy), match.com (nadda). I think for any site, girls dont really need to put in much effort into messaging guys, lol. You'll be deleting lots of messages hahaha, what my friend calls the screening process. So guys still have to get creative with messages... nothing like 'hey baby how you doin?'
I'm still new to the online dating stuff. Haven't gotten much attention, but I think its because I have no smiling pictures lol. Or I'm just fugly :)
Goooood luck with the online dating stuff Heidi!- Cambridge, MA
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I too came from a computer science department. I basically dated as a result of doing tech theater on the side.
To contrast with Peter's experience, I have met multiple women ranging from awesome to cool but not a good match to flaky to downright insane through OkCupid.- Portland, OR
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Online dating can be a great way of at least practicing. That way, when you do meet someone in 'real life' you will (hopefully) be a little less anxious about it. Nerve.com was big in NYC, but doesn't seem to be so here. I checked out okcupid for a while, but there were not many needles in that haystack. Lovelab seems better, but I haven't really used it yet.
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Welcome:More recent pieces are An Update on the Distribution of Men and Women Dating in Seattle, With Amazon, Men Outnumber Women in Washington State and Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze. See also How Our Success is Ruining Seattle and the summary of the media coverage from this original post.
The gender imbalance in San Francisco is so bad that a startup recently proposed flying women in from New York City for dates. But, if you’re a straight male thinking of moving to Seattle to work in technology, think again. Seattle’s gender ratio is more imbalanced than San Francisco’s and it’s about to get much worse for men.
Gender Distribution of Major Cities (U.S. Census)
[sc:amazon]Amazon gets blamed for a lot of things: overworking employees, not paying taxes, killing bookstores, cannibalizing the publishing industry and here in Seattle, increasing construction, traffic and rents; and, it turns out that the company’s rapid growth here is also having a big impact on the straight Seattle dating scene in Seattle.
Over the past two years, I’ve personally found dating in Seattle has become increasingly difficult. It’s less common to meet single women in person and online dating is more difficult. It’s not that I can’t get dates but it’s harder to find women that are a good match for me. Online, it’s been harder to catch women’s attention, harder to get them to schedule a date and they cancel dates more frequently. When we do meet in person, it’s been harder to capture their interest and nearly impossible to find one interested in a relationship. The women here seem more distracted than ever before and at times, I’ve felt like a number to them. Turns out, the statistics back up my qualitative experience.
The presence of Microsoft and Boeing have always made dating challenging in Seattle but lately, I’ve wondered whether my experiences were a side-effect of Amazon’s rapid growth in Seattle. I decided to look into census data and what we know about Amazon’s hiring spree and its gender mix.
Using U.S. Census data for the ages 25 to 44 for Seattle and other cities, I calculated counts of single males and females using reporting by sex and marital status within each age category (no adjustments were made for the prevalence and impact of homosexuality – which likely affects both sexes relatively equally nor Seattle’s bisexual and polyamorous communities).
Based on the 2010 census data, Seattle has 119 single men for every 100 single women, slightly better than San Francisco at 121 – but equal if you add in the impact from nearby Bellevue, which is an awful 144.
You can’t miss Amazon’s growth if you’ve been in Seattle the past few years. The city’s Lake Union neighborhood is a giant construction zone. In 2013, the company reported adding 420,000 square feet of new headquarters space and “broke ground on what will become four city blocks and several million square feet of new construction.” The company reported adding 28,900 employees worldwide in 2013 for a total of 117,300. While it doesn’t break out its Seattle headcount – I estimated using numbers from an August 2013 New York Times report. According to the report, Amazon had about 15,000 employees in Seattle and is building capacity for 30,000, approximately five percent of the city population!
Using this report and the rough assumption that its overall percentage of Seattle employees to worldwide headcount has been constant the past few years, I came up with the following numbers:
Amazon: Number of Employees in Seattle and Worldwide
Amazon is on a hiring tear. I estimate the company has hired 15,026 employees in Seattle since the April 2010 census was taken. Halfway through 2014, its website shows 4,055 open positions in Seattle. The company may hire as many as 6,000 new employees in Seattle this year.
But, according to Payscale.com, Amazon’s gender distribution is 75% male – so the impact of this hiring on the gender ratio is significant. Microsoft’s self-reported USA gender ratio is about the same. However, both could have higher ratios in their local Puget Sound technology headquarters, where male engineers tend to be more prevalent.
Using all of this data, I estimated the current gender ratio in Seattle and ahead to the end of 2014. Again, these are my own estimates – and the hardest part was figuring Amazon’s hiring rates by age group (Payscale reports Amazon’s median age is 31) then reducing this by the appropriate census marriage rates for Seattle. Unfortunately for guys, Seattle’s gender ratio seems to have passed a tipping point and Amazon’s rapid hiring is making it quickly worse.
Correction: I’ve updated the EOY 2014 estimate to 130 single males per 100 single females, and the resulting gap below the chart.
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Note: Seattle’s gender imbalance was worse in 2000 than in 2010, likely because the census count coincided with the peak of the Internet technology bubble.
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By December, I estimate there will be 86,098 single males in this age range but only 66,273 females – a gap of 19,825; a lot for a relatively small city. I think it’s also safe to assume that the overabundance of men in Bellevue add pressure on the Seattle scene.
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Last month, the Guardian reported that only 18 of Amazon’s 120 most senior managers are women (15%). My estimates used PayScales gender ratio, but it’s possible that Amazon’s local hiring is worse. If for example Amazon’s hiring 80% men in the city, then Seattle currently has 126 single males per hundred single women, will have 129 by December and 133 by the end of 2015.
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Culturally, men tend to be more aggressive pursuers, which can magnify the impact of a gender imbalance. For example, women who use OKCupid tell me they typically receive between 15 and 50 emails weekly here in Seattle. Many say they regularly get exhausted just trying to keep up with the inflow. But it’s not all positive for women, some I’ve met say things like “sure there’s a lot of guys, but they’re all tech guys – they’re all kind of the same.” Overall though, if you’re a straight single woman in Seattle, these are pretty good times.
If you’re a straight single woman outside of Seattle, this might be a great time to move here. Seriously, please move here. Amazon’s hiring.