If you’re looking for a valentine this year, Gainesville is a good place to start.
Trips To Discover, a digital travel magazine, revealed in an article Monday that Gainesville ranked No. 13 in a list of U.S. cities with the highest percentage of single people, said Megan Ribbens, a content strategist for the magazine.
“If you look at the information as a whole, you do see a good number of them are cities that have a university in the vicinity,” Ribbens said.
She explained that the company used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to calculate the percentage of unmarried people in each state, and then city.
Jonathan Mills, 21, said he wasn’t shocked by the number of singles in Gainesville. As a realtor, he often shows homes to singles who move to Gainesville for work or school.
“I don’t see a lot of opportunity to go out and meet people other than through Tinder, Bumble and dating apps like that,” Mills said.
With no valentine to dote on, Mills has only one plan for the day.
“Like any true single would say, I’m going to buy myself a nice dinner and bottle of wine and stay home with my dog,” he said.
