Dating at a Distance: A Time to Swipe Left

The eligible men are laid out like items on a menu that I can scroll through by flicking my thumb. Brrring brrrring brrrrrring. I scream and toss the phone to the other end of the couch, as if this action will repel the men within it. Blendr is the most high-profile of a series of new location-based dating apps for straight people. In June, Grindr announced it now has four and a half million users six hundred thousand of them in the U.

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Subscriber Account active since. Business Insider. WalletHub recently ranked New York City as the best city in the country for fun and recreational opportunities , while New York state ranked first for romance and fun and second for dating opportunities. However, there are many struggles that come with dating in New York City that are rarely discussed outside of close friend groups or frustrated rants on social media. Here are 8 reasons why dating in New York City is actually terrible, coming from someone who lives there.

One reality of living in New York City as a something is the inevitability of multiple roommates. However, whether you have just one roommate or end up sharing your space with four city-dwellers, living with other people can definitely put a strain on your ability to date. As someone with three roommates, I’ve found it difficult to host dates in my apartment. It can seem rude to occupy the kitchen or living area for hours at a time to have dinner, not to mention the awkwardness of a roommate walking through your space.

Privacy is pretty much impossible if you live with multiple people, which is usually the case in a city like New York. An assumption I had about living in New York City prior to actually moving there was that everyone lived close together, or at the very least could easily get to one another via a quick subway ride. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.

It could take at least an hour, and multiple trains or buses, to get from my home in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, to some parts of Manhattan. Even other parts of Brooklyn, like Bushwick or Williamsburg, can only be primarily accessed by Uber, since no train line runs from my apartment to that part of the borough.