It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco

For all those SFist readers feeling blue about today being Valentine's Day, cheer up little buckaroos because you're not alone. Turns out, there's a lot more out there than you think. According to some study, San Francisco ranks as the 38th best city for singles between 18-24. That's only one better than our brethren to the South in San Jose and two better than Sacto, but eight spots below Fresno (Fresno!). And in something that will give our neighbors much to be happy about, Oakland lapped us and came in ranked 19th. In other words, if Oak Town is a rockin', don't come a knockin'. While that might be slightly embarrassing for SF, try being New York and having to contemplate the fact that Jersey City out-ranked the Big Apple.

Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song be only 38th? This, after all, is the city that gave the world Journey and if the hills and the fog and the clanging of the cable cars wasn’t the inspiration behind "Open Arms" we don’t know what was.

So what is it that makes this city so hard for singletons? For the straight women out there, is it because, as one friend said, guys here are either into coding or brooding? And for the straight guy, is it just like what a perusal of Craigslist Rants N' Raves points out, that it’s a dating world full of either women with ISSUES or of gold-digging, Barbie dolls who put their career as a reporter for some lame-ass cable network over the relationship? And is it any easier out there for the Queer Guy or Queer Girl? Are things the same or is it as most straight people in this city suspect, that gay people have more fun?

Or, is it as the study says, just some random sampling of people basing their information on things like percentage of singles, density and things and sponsored by some deodorant that’s trying way too hard?

We, dear readers, ask you.