Forbes swipes left on Denver
This past Friday marked a sad day for Denver. Cue the sappy break-up music—for the first time in years, the Mile-High City was not Forbes’ number one pick to the prom. No longer is it the magazine’s top pick as America’s number one city for singles. It’s not even in the top ten. As a close neighbor to the city, I felt compelled to write this blog of lament on its behalf. That, and it’s still crying in the bathroom and refuses to come out.
Losing out to ever-trendy San Francisco (#1), and that international beacon of hip, New York (#2), Denver actually slipped to a modest #16. No, there have been no rash rushes to the altar over the last year (not that I know of, anyway), nor has there been a mass exodus of Denver’s dating elite. Rather, the change mostly came from a tweak in where the data for the report came from, and how it was calculated. Over the last three years, Denver’s young and outdoorsy neighbor, Boulder, was figured into the equation. This year, though, urban centers were judged without the influence of any outlying juggernauts of singledom, as, it would seem, Boulder is. Their words (more or less), not mine. But that’s a whole other issue entirely.