If you've spent any time in New York City's dating pool, you won't be surprised to hear that dating in this city is the worst.

So it's with sad reluctance that we bring you the news that there's an NY Times map that reveals your chances of marriage based on your hometown. You may have already guessed that if you grew up in NYC your chances for marriage are not looking too hot.

The trait that most directly correlated with the likelihood to marry was partisanship. 

In other words, people who grew up in liberal cities like NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Washington, are about 10% less likely to marry than the rest of the country.

Conversely, you're most likely to marry if you grew up in the heavily Mormon areas of Utah, southern Idaho, and parts of Colorado, you are the most likely people in America to find someone with whom to tie the knot.

These conclusions came about from an Upshot analysis of data compiled by a team of Harvard economists. These economists assert that they've identified an integral role that geography plays in people's lives.

The data was based on more than five million people who moved as children in the 1980s and 1990s.

While America's most liberal cities turned out to be filled with people less likely to marry, it also happens that cities in general are also populated by single spinsters (and if there was a male equivalent to the word spinster we definitely would have used it too. Spanstro? Spunster?).

It's just our luck that the most standout region in the entire study wound up being NYC.

Via NY Times

If the list were pared down to only the country's largest 50 counties, the top five counties in which people were the least likely to get married would all be in the New York area. Which is, as we said, just our luck.

The researchers also found that the younger their subjects were when they moved to NYC, the less likely they were to marry.

There is a small, shining ray of hope cutting through the otherwise bleariness of this study. The statistics here all analyze someone's odds of being married by 26. The researchers were asked this question, and they slashed that ray of hope back into oblivion.

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The places that made marriage more likely at 26 tended to also make marriage more likely at 30, yet the children from this study aren't yet old enough for conclusions to go beyond 30.

What should we do? Should we give up, buy a puppy, and thank our lucky stars that we'll never have to share the Queen sized bed in our minuscule apartments?

Should we move to Idaho and live amongst the conservatives? Or should we just continue to go to 13th Step on the weekends and make out with strangers?

We're not sure how we should handle these results, but for now we'll console ourselves with the fact that while we may not have the highest marriage statistics, at least we have three out of TripAdvisor's 10 best restaurants in America, and lots of other really great food on top of that. 

Plus, we're also pretty stoked we have all the freedom in the world to pursue our individualistic passions in NYC.

After all, isn't it basic NYC mentality that we're more interested in being somebodies than somebody's? Yeah. Wordplay. 

Check out 6 Worst Dates We've Ever Experienced in NYC. 

[via NY Times]

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