Forbes ranks Salt Lake City high for single living

By Aaron Falk, Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, July 28 2009 12:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

Salt Lake City is one of the 40 best cities for singles, according to a new Forbes.com list.

The online magazine ranked Utah's capital No. 39 on its list of best cities for singles, just ahead of Jacksonville, Fla., and just behind Cincinnati, Ohio.

"While it's certainly not a bastion of nightlife, Salt Lake City does offer a little bit of everything else, including skiing, museums, and performing arts groups like the Utah Symphony Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir," Forbes wrote.

New York City, Boston and Seattle topped the list.

The magazine judged cities on the cost of living alone, culture, job growth, online dating participation, nightlife, the ratio of singles to the entire population of the metro and "coolness."

— Aaron Falk

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Jordan T.

The singles scene in Salt Lake is terrible. The bar, club scene is subpar--you can forget online dating-- and it seems like all the good girls are already taken.

Denver, Boulder fares so much better, with its great nightlife, the More..

6:01 p.m. July 27, 2009
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what a joke

SLC is not great for singles. And to Jordan above: you think its hard to find women in SLC try finding single men!

8:20 a.m. July 28, 2009
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Pretty funny concept..

I think not! I mean what variables were they considering when making this ranking?

9:34 a.m. July 29, 2009
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