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Probably not worst for singles, after all
10:19PM ON
05/11/2008
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Daily Dose
For all of you who thought about closing up shop after last year’s Forbes singles listing, thank the gods that we have Dan on the case to sort things out:
The biggest difference was that Forbes, which publishes the list every year, had changed its methodology. To judge a city’s online dating scene, it stopped using the number of Match.com personals and counted how many Yahoo! Personals were listed.
Providence dropped from number 14 in the online dating category to number 40, dragging it down to the bottom spot overall and prompting a combination of surprised soul-searching and self-satisfied “I told you so’s” in the city’s blogosphere.
So don’t make that cheesy-ass move to Portland, SF, NYC, or Philly just yet. (Stick it out for the summer, anyway. It’s worth it for the kickball, even if you’re not getting laid.)
And just a hunch, but I’m guessing we can take credit for news of that monster truck crash turning up in the paper of record:
Providence has found its way onto lists of every type, some fitting, some bizarre, some contradictory: number 10 most “livable” city, according to MSN in 2003; number 10 most miserable city, according to Forbes in 2008; site of the number-7 best monster truck crash of all time, according to truckchamp.com. Ninth most dental visits per population, says Men’s Health magazine.
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