2009 - Best American Cities for Singles

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  • Thursday, August 20 2009 @ 03:33 pm
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Forbes has ranked their top cities for singles a litter earlier this year. We usually expect the results sometime in September. In 2007 San Francisco held the honour of the best city for singles, in 2008 it was Atlanta, and this year the honour goes to New York City. Looking at this list when compared to other years it seems that the recession has juggled the cities rankings quite a bit. For example, in last year's best city for singles list, New York City was in 8th place.

Here is the top 5 cities for Singles in 2009:

  1. New York City
  2. Boston
  3. Chicago
  4. Seattle
  5. Washington D.C.

To create the list, Forbes ranked the 40 largest US cities in 7 different categories. The categories are Living Cost, Job Growth, Coolness, Culture, Online Dating, Nightlife and Singles. All categories are weighted equally and each city in ranked in each category by using quantitative data. To determine a city's final ranking, their rank in each category is tallied

Related Story: Atlanta Tops Best Cities for Singles by Forbes

For the complete list and a chart which shows how the cities scored in the different categories visit, Forbes.com.