You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene 315
reifman (786887) writes "San Francisco's gender imbalance 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 even more imbalanced and it's about to get much worse for men. Amazon is building out enough space to employ 5% of the city population and its workforce is 75 percent male. By the end of 2014, Seattle will have 130 single men for every 100 single women."
Sounds like a Marketing opportunity ladies! (Score:5, Funny)
COME TO SILICON VALLEY, learn useless coding techniques, give out buggy code and ask the nerdiest soon-to-be-billionaire to help you grow in the profession.
After the divorce, you won't ever have to work again!
Re:Which one? (Score:5, Funny)
As a woman I think this must be great news! But as a foreigner - should I aim for Seattle or San Fransisco?
If you're a foreigner, I'd recommend treating the world as your oyster. Personally, I can vouch for the rogueish good looks, sense of humour, and alcohol tolerance of Irish men.
But if you're in a pinch, I guess there are a few expats in Seattle and San Francisco.
Well.. (Score:5, Funny)
The Space Needle will take on new allegorical significance as a monument!
Re:We need to fix the root cause (Score:5, Funny)
stop telling little girls that they're pretty, and instead tell them that they're smart. Don't ask them their favorite princess, ask them what they want to be when they grow up.
These suggestions are un-American to the point of being treasonous.
Re:you've got male (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We need to fix the root cause (Score:5, Funny)
My older daughter wants to be a princess when she grows up. My attempt to steer her into mathematics is so far a failure. I still have hope for my younger daughter. I've taken away her dolls and replaced them with legos and erector sets. She cries about it and says she hates me. I guess she just doesn't understand I'm liberating her from the Patriarchy.
Re:But the real question is.. (Score:5, Funny)
That's three hundred million men!
BIG NUMBERS BETTER.
Re:But the real question is.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which one? (Score:4, Funny)
should I aim for Seattle or San Fransisco?
I don't know much about San Fransisco, but I do know the weather in Seattle, while uncomfortably dry is less so than most other cities... If I had to pick between them, I'd probably go for whichever gets more annual rainfall.
Re:you've got male (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're projecting your social phobia onto other men. Many of us are fine dealing with people.
Re:I've found the perfect solution (Score:3, Funny)
You sound like a real wanker.
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
A company called Amazon has a mostly male work force.
Re:Even worse just outside Seattle... (Score:5, Funny)
I grew up next to a military base and can confirm that and as a freshman in high school I could not get a date with any girls at my school because they were all dating soldiers. Instead their 19-22yr old wives were all very lonely... I once took a 22yr old soldier's wife to a school dance because, I knew he would be there with his 16yr old date.
Re:easy answer (Score:4, Funny)
Are they Amazon Prime eligible?
Re:Irony (Score:2, Funny)
That's OK, the real Amazon river basin has about 1.06 women for every man.
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Re:But the real question is.. (Score:5, Funny)