Tech industry is male skewed and immigrant friendly, so there is a constant import effect of economically attractive men with usually not as good social skills.
The Tech Industry is the big industry of the bay area, like Hollywood in LA, Finance, Journalism & Fashion in NYC, Law & Non-Profits in DC or Oil in Houston so that causes an issue in the singles market.
On top of that, a large amount of the hiring is in the South bay, while the singles tend to live in SF or the north east bay.
NYC is known for being female skewed, because fashion & journalism is probably female skewed and finance is neutral. DC is probably female skewed because law is neutral and non-profits are female skewed and so on.
If you look at maps of female/male ratios of various age cohorts, you will also notice that the entire west coast is male skewed in the author's age cohort.
So many words to say the simple truth, women are not interested in technology and don't want to work at those jobs.
Also, the immigrants got perfectly good social skills, the only problem is that American women, especially from the left side of the political map, are racist. Men don't really care and will date anyone, conservative women usually grow up in lower socio economic parts of the country and are less judgmental. But good luck finding a white lefty woman to date if you are Indian or Asian. Not saying it never happens, but it is pretty rare.
I was saying immigrant friendly to denote that the industry imports a lot of people, more than a less immigrant friendly industry, say hollywood. It creates a constant inflow of new single people more than other industries.
Us software people in general have bad social skills on average compared to say, hollywood or fashion people.
And I brought up how other industries that are more gender skewed in the other direction create an imbalance in the other way on the dating market. It wasn't passing judgement about the why of the gender skew.
My focus was about explaining the simple supply/demand math that causes issues on the west coast.
The Tech Industry is the big industry of the bay area, like Hollywood in LA, Finance, Journalism & Fashion in NYC, Law & Non-Profits in DC or Oil in Houston so that causes an issue in the singles market.
On top of that, a large amount of the hiring is in the South bay, while the singles tend to live in SF or the north east bay.
NYC is known for being female skewed, because fashion & journalism is probably female skewed and finance is neutral. DC is probably female skewed because law is neutral and non-profits are female skewed and so on.
If you look at maps of female/male ratios of various age cohorts, you will also notice that the entire west coast is male skewed in the author's age cohort.