Cities with the highest ratios of young, single women to men
1. Baton Rouge A sultry average daily temperature keeps the 15,529 LSU coeds baring it on the Bayou. And if you strike out at the off-campus bars, New Orleans is only an hour away.
2. Baltimore Check out The Brewer’s Art on Charles Street, a brewpub with a big bar on one level and a bigger, dark, smoky bar beneath. “You can meet yuppie babes upstairs or tattooed and tongue-pierced babes downstairs,” says one guy who’s done both.
3. Memphis Skip Graceland and feel like the king at Automatic Slim’s. Just two blocks off Beale Street, Slim’s is brimming with belles. “Damn good martinis, too,” says a regular.
4. Fresno It’s the raisin capital of the country and a great place for dates. Duck into the Elbow Room at the corner of Palm and Shaw for a sampler. According to one local, “It’s not like a typical club where you can’t talk to the women because it’s so loud.”
5. Oklahoma City Slip into the Citywalk, located in the historic Bricktown section. “A lot of cute girls go there,” says a regular from nearby Norman. And why not? With the Citywalk there’s no need to bar hop; it’s actually seven bars in one.
Location, Location, Lats
Your neighborhood can impact your health in surprising ways. are you safe at home?
By JIM GORMAN
Metrogrades: Ranking America’s cities
The best and worst places for men to live
Quality of life means different things to different people. So we
figure it must be California’s sustained real-estate boom that draws
people to Bakersfield—despite the lack of fitness facilities,
relatively poor air quality, dearth of doctors, and a libido-deadening
ratio of guys to girls.
Lay roots in Madison, Wisconsin, on the other hand, and you can expect
to breathe deeper, live 3.5 years longer, and enjoy a surplus of single
women (and we hear the Badger band puts on quite a halftime show).
Madison emerged as the top city for young men after we crunched 10
different data sets—those mentioned above, along with education levels,
household income, and cost of living. Here’s how the nation’s big
cities rank.
Research by Carol Ann Shaheen
Best Places to Live
1 Madison, WI A+
2 Burlington, VT A+
3 Lexington, KY A-
4 Fargo, ND A-
5 Sioux Falls, SD A-
6 Fremont, CA A-
7 Honolulu, HI A-
8 Boston, MA A-
9 San Francisco, CA A-
10 Durham, NC B+
11 Yonkers, NY B+
12 Seattle, WA B+
13 Omaha, NE B+
14 Colorado Springs, CO B+
15 St. Paul, MN B+
16 Washington, DC B
17 San Diego, CA B
18 Billings, MT B
19 San Jose, CA B
20 New York, NY B
21 Boise, ID B
22 Raleigh, NC B
23 Lincoln, NE B-
24 Minneapolis, MN B-
25 Anchorage, AK B-
26 Portland, OR B-
27 Little Rock, AR B-
28 Cheyenne, WY B-
29 Albuquerque, NM B-
30 Wilmington, DE B-
31 Rochester, NY C+
32 Austin, TX C+
33 Lubbock, TX C+
34 Pittsburgh, PA C+
35 Greensboro, NC C+
36 Richmond, VA C+
37 Providence, RI C+
38 Oakland, CA C+
39 Columbia, SC C+
40 Charlotte, NC C
41 Nashville, TN C
42 Aurora, CO C
43 San Antonio, TX C
44 Manchester, NH C
45 Bangor, ME C
46 Montgomery, AL C
47 Jackson, MS C
48 Salt Lake City, UT C
49 Louisville, KY C
50 Denver, CO C
51 Cincinnati, OH C
52 Indianapolis, IN C
53 Fort Wayne, IN C
54 Anaheim, CA C
55 Tucson, AZ C
56 Baton Rouge, LA C
57 Wichita, KS C-
58 Des Moines, IA C-
59 Spokane, WA C-
60 Tulsa, OK C-
61 Jacksonville, FL C-
62 Grand Rapids, MI C-
63 El Paso, TX C-
64 Atlanta, GA C-
65 Buffalo, NY C-
66 St. Petersburg, FL C-
67 Baltimore, MD C-
68 Chicago, IL C-
69 Philadelphia , PA D+
70 Sacramento, CA D+
71 Orlando, FL D+
72 Tampa, FL D+
73 Charleston, WV D+
74 Jersey City, NJ D+
75 Corpus Christi, TX D+
76 Columbus, OH D+
77 Cleveland, OH D+
78 Los Angeles, CA D+
79 Norfolk, VA D+
80 Kansas City, MO D+
81 St. Louis, MO D+
82 Arlington, TX D+
83 Newark, NJ D
84 Hartford, CT D
85 Fort Worth, TX D
86 Oklahoma City, OK D
87 Milwaukee, WI D
88 Birmingham, AL D
89 Miami, FL D
90 Toledo, OH D-
Worst Places to Live
91 Phoenix, AZ D-
92 Memphis, TN D-
93 Houston, TX F-
94 Modesto, CA F-
95 Riverside, CA F-
96 Las Vegas, NV F-
97 Dallas, TX F-
98 Fresno, CA F-
99 Detroit, MI F-
100 Bakersfield, CA F-
