What is the best city to meet women?

Chicago-based Love Systems instructor Helicase sent this along…from a Chicago newspaper article complaining that there are more single men than single women there.

Let me be clear – the newspaper article is complaining. Not Helicase. Helicase has more women than he knows what to do with.

I’ll copy and paste the article below (Don’t worry, Chicago Sun-Times, I already gave you the link). What do you guys think IS the best city to meet women? To narrow it down, let’s say a city has to have:

* Attractive women
* Who are not ultra-conservative
* Who are not insular
* Who are not stuck up
* Good places to meet women (social settings, day game venues too)
* Decent logistics (places to meet women are reasonably accessible to each other, to places where people live, to fun things to do)
* Whatever other factors you want to consider

Personally, I like the way women tend to look in Southern California. Sure, a lot of women here can be horribly pretentious and spoiled, but there are so many more attractive women here to choose from that you can still date amazing and attractive women here.

As a second choice, and this one might be a bit off the wall, but I’d go with Philadelphia. There are a lot of hot women there – the 8 million colleges and being near the center of the pharmaceutical industry helps a lot – the logistics are great, and most women seem to be pretty cool. Not as many hot women as in say Phoenix or Miami, but if you do meet a hottie, your odds are much better that she’s cool.

Las Vegas doesn’t count. It’s a theme park, not a city.

Article follows:

Chicago is male skewed — 103.6 single men for every 100 single women.

But a scarcity of women doesn’t just dampen men’s spirits — it could hurt their finances, too.

When men think they outnumber women, they borrow more, save less and make more impulse purchases, according to a study by University of Minnesota marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius.

University researchers asked groups of men to read news articles suggesting that their local population had either more men or women. They were then asked to indicate how much money they would save each month from a paycheck, as well as how much they would borrow on credit cards for purchases.

When the articles suggested there was a surplus of men, the savings rate fell 42 percent, and the men were willing to borrow 84 percent more each month.

The study also found real-life evidence of this behavior: In Columbus, Ga., where there are 1.18 single men for every single woman, the average consumer debt was $3,479 higher than it was 100 miles away in Macon, Ga., where there were 0.78 single men for every woman.

Sex ratios don’t affect women’s financial decisions, but they do affect their expectations of how much men should spend on them, the study found. After reading an article stating that men outnumbered them, women expected men to spend more on dinners, Valentine’s Day gifts and engagement rings.

In 2010, there were eight unmarried men for every nine unmarried women in the U.S., the Census Bureau says. For unmarried Americans age 15 to 49, though, there were 11 unmarried men for every 10 unmarried women.