Any quality 30+ guys left?

[Anonymous]

There are still good 30-something guys out there - not everyone finds their mate when they're young.

But if you're looking for a tall, handsome, white guy with a good body and good hair, a well-paying job and a good education, you'll have a lot of competition for him. Make sure you're not making your pool too narrow.

Also, some of those "playboys" settle down as they get older or find the right woman. I've seen a few of my guy friends really play the field in their 20's and 30's and then meet the right woman and do a 180.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are no good single men at all in the D.C. area.

Are you crazy?? DC has TONS of eligible guys. They mostly hang out in Clarendon and are 25-27. These types will grow up to be the bankers and the lawyers women want to marry.

Ok there's your problem- nobody who hangs out in Clarendon at age 27 will "grow up" to be a banker. Yes, there are tons of guys who fit OP's description, but you're incredibly naive if you think that's where to find them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

1. I won't bash you for your goals. That's the exact setup my wife and I have. I am in your age demographic (mid-30s) and make nearly double your desired income threshold. But then again, I made $30k when my wife married me.

2. 75% of HOUSEHOLDS make less than $140k in the DC Area (note: that includes dual earner households). So, no, nearly all men do not make $150k in DC by their mid-30s. That number is probably closer to 5%.

3. The vast majority of guys that do make that kind of money tend to be risk averse strivers. They marry women they meet when they are young or in grad school. The only real exception is men in high finance.

4. To answer your question, you face long odds for what you're looking for. Maybe try to get into a top MBA program?

Thanks for your response!

I know. The guys like this I knew all paired up when we were about 25 26 to whatever girl they were dating then. So I know the pool is now very small.

As a mind thirties guy, do you know any guys in your friends group who would go for an early thirties woman like me?

BTW what do you do to make that much? Wow! good for you!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are no good single men at all in the D.C. area.

Are you crazy?? DC has TONS of eligible guys. They mostly hang out in Clarendon and are 25-27. These types will grow up to be the bankers and the lawyers women want to marry.

Ok there's your problem- nobody who hangs out in Clarendon at age 27 will "grow up" to be a banker. Yes, there are tons of guys who fit OP's description, but you're incredibly naive if you think that's where to find them.

Why?

Clarendon is full of twentysomething rich kids with great education and career prospects. If you're a smart twentysomething girl, you go there and find your man.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

If you wanted the SAHM life an that salary you've missed the boat. You have to lock a guy like that down in your 20's. If you wanted to go the SAHM route and find that salary you should have dated one of these 30 yr old men and locked him down in your 20's. If that's truly the lifestyle you want you need to bump your search up in age and start looking for a 40-45 yr old man who could provide that lifestyle or move to an area like Austin where COL is cheaper and there's still a lot of high earners like you're looking for. Today's crop of 30 yr old men looking to find a SAHM are looking at women in their 20's. You have to realize you're fishing in a very very small pond. If you keep such narrow search parameters you need to realize you might not just put being a SAHM at risk but being a mother if you keep waiting for the dream guy that doesn't exist. And no, most men by 35 in the DC area don't make 150k a year. That's the wonderful thing about census data it's easy to see. Only 25% of Households (not individual) make between 100k-200k in the DMV. 15% make 200k or more.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1150000-washington-dc/

Cut it out with the census data already. Jesus Christ. You people are relentless. Someone who is a college educated professional (whether you count Op or not in that group is up to you) is not going to be dating in the bottom 50% most places you go. INCLUDING HERE in DC. Do you people have any friends who are not under-achieving college people? These are the folks who never got a college education (I realize many people in trade jobs make a lot, we are talking many of the others), they never finished high school, they are living on government handout. HELLO, DC?

Are you people suggesting she start dating the welfare recipients? Someone who don't have a lick of college?

Ridiculous. Just cut the BS already.

The point of the data is that for every 100 men in DC that meet her desired age group, she's already eliminated 98.

Think of it this way: there are about 450,000 men in the DC metro area age 30-39, meaning there are roughly 10,000 men in that age bracket that make her desired income.

Of that 10,000, let's conservatively assume half are married or in marriage track relationships.

She's down to a pool of 5,000 men. Then you'll need to filter out men that she will find unattractive for whatever reason and the pool shrinks further.

My guess is that the pool of eligible men that she would find desireable is probably around 2,000 in the DC area. Now, of those 2,000 men, how many of them are killing it on he dating scene and have no desire to settle down? Good luck with that!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

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That's not at all what OP said, and if that's what she meant, she should have come back on the board and clarified herself. She made clear that was a minimum salary requirement, which happens to be 2.5 times what she brings in. LOL.

Based on your obsession with this, I am going go ahead and guess that you are ugly but make a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

If you wanted the SAHM life an that salary you've missed the boat. You have to lock a guy like that down in your 20's. If you wanted to go the SAHM route and find that salary you should have dated one of these 30 yr old men and locked him down in your 20's. If that's truly the lifestyle you want you need to bump your search up in age and start looking for a 40-45 yr old man who could provide that lifestyle or move to an area like Austin where COL is cheaper and there's still a lot of high earners like you're looking for. Today's crop of 30 yr old men looking to find a SAHM are looking at women in their 20's. You have to realize you're fishing in a very very small pond. If you keep such narrow search parameters you need to realize you might not just put being a SAHM at risk but being a mother if you keep waiting for the dream guy that doesn't exist. And no, most men by 35 in the DC area don't make 150k a year. That's the wonderful thing about census data it's easy to see. Only 25% of Households (not individual) make between 100k-200k in the DMV. 15% make 200k or more.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1150000-washington-dc/

Cut it out with the census data already. Jesus Christ. You people are relentless. Someone who is a college educated professional (whether you count Op or not in that group is up to you) is not going to be dating in the bottom 50% most places you go. INCLUDING HERE in DC. Do you people have any friends who are not under-achieving college people? These are the folks who never got a college education (I realize many people in trade jobs make a lot, we are talking many of the others), they never finished high school, they are living on government handout. HELLO, DC?

Are you people suggesting she start dating the welfare recipients? Someone who don't have a lick of college?

Ridiculous. Just cut the BS already.

+100

Seriously. Census data only tells part of the story. Just go on a dating app like hinge or the league and you'll immediately narrow down to at least 35% of guys in those profiles making over 100k in the 26-35 age range. At the VERY least. Probably more like 50%+.

The DMV "area" and Bay "area" are still relatively huge "areas," with lots of different people, clearly, many of whom didn't graduate college. Hell, only 40% of ALL Americans have an Associates or more. Like finds like.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

If you wanted the SAHM life an that salary you've missed the boat. You have to lock a guy like that down in your 20's. If you wanted to go the SAHM route and find that salary you should have dated one of these 30 yr old men and locked him down in your 20's. If that's truly the lifestyle you want you need to bump your search up in age and start looking for a 40-45 yr old man who could provide that lifestyle or move to an area like Austin where COL is cheaper and there's still a lot of high earners like you're looking for. Today's crop of 30 yr old men looking to find a SAHM are looking at women in their 20's. You have to realize you're fishing in a very very small pond. If you keep such narrow search parameters you need to realize you might not just put being a SAHM at risk but being a mother if you keep waiting for the dream guy that doesn't exist. And no, most men by 35 in the DC area don't make 150k a year. That's the wonderful thing about census data it's easy to see. Only 25% of Households (not individual) make between 100k-200k in the DMV. 15% make 200k or more.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1150000-washington-dc/

Cut it out with the census data already. Jesus Christ. You people are relentless. Someone who is a college educated professional (whether you count Op or not in that group is up to you) is not going to be dating in the bottom 50% most places you go. INCLUDING HERE in DC. Do you people have any friends who are not under-achieving college people? These are the folks who never got a college education (I realize many people in trade jobs make a lot, we are talking many of the others), they never finished high school, they are living on government handout. HELLO, DC?

Are you people suggesting she start dating the welfare recipients? Someone who don't have a lick of college?

Ridiculous. Just cut the BS already.

The point of the data is that for every 100 men in DC that meet her desired age group, she's already eliminated 98.

Think of it this way: there are about 450,000 men in the DC metro area age 30-39, meaning there are roughly 10,000 men in that age bracket that make her desired income.

Of that 10,000, let's conservatively assume half are married or in marriage track relationships.

She's down to a pool of 5,000 men. Then you'll need to filter out men that she will find unattractive for whatever reason and the pool shrinks further.

My guess is that the pool of eligible men that she would find desireable is probably around 2,000 in the DC area. Now, of those 2,000 men, how many of them are killing it on he dating scene and have no desire to settle down? Good luck with that!

Seems like pretty decent odds to me. Certainly better than the odds back in small town hometown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

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That's not at all what OP said, and if that's what she meant, she should have come back on the board and clarified herself. She made clear that was a minimum salary requirement, which happens to be 2.5 times what she brings in. LOL.

Based on your obsession with this, I am going go ahead and guess that you are ugly but make a lot of money.

What do my looks and how much $$ I make have to do with anything? I'm not the single-30 something claiming there aren't any quality men out there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

If you wanted the SAHM life an that salary you've missed the boat. You have to lock a guy like that down in your 20's. If you wanted to go the SAHM route and find that salary you should have dated one of these 30 yr old men and locked him down in your 20's. If that's truly the lifestyle you want you need to bump your search up in age and start looking for a 40-45 yr old man who could provide that lifestyle or move to an area like Austin where COL is cheaper and there's still a lot of high earners like you're looking for. Today's crop of 30 yr old men looking to find a SAHM are looking at women in their 20's. You have to realize you're fishing in a very very small pond. If you keep such narrow search parameters you need to realize you might not just put being a SAHM at risk but being a mother if you keep waiting for the dream guy that doesn't exist. And no, most men by 35 in the DC area don't make 150k a year. That's the wonderful thing about census data it's easy to see. Only 25% of Households (not individual) make between 100k-200k in the DMV. 15% make 200k or more.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1150000-washington-dc/

Cut it out with the census data already. Jesus Christ. You people are relentless. Someone who is a college educated professional (whether you count Op or not in that group is up to you) is not going to be dating in the bottom 50% most places you go. INCLUDING HERE in DC. Do you people have any friends who are not under-achieving college people? These are the folks who never got a college education (I realize many people in trade jobs make a lot, we are talking many of the others), they never finished high school, they are living on government handout. HELLO, DC?

Are you people suggesting she start dating the welfare recipients? Someone who don't have a lick of college?

Ridiculous. Just cut the BS already.

The point of the data is that for every 100 men in DC that meet her desired age group, she's already eliminated 98.

Think of it this way: there are about 450,000 men in the DC metro area age 30-39, meaning there are roughly 10,000 men in that age bracket that make her desired income.

Of that 10,000, let's conservatively assume half are married or in marriage track relationships.

She's down to a pool of 5,000 men. Then you'll need to filter out men that she will find unattractive for whatever reason and the pool shrinks further.

My guess is that the pool of eligible men that she would find desireable is probably around 2,000 in the DC area. Now, of those 2,000 men, how many of them are killing it on he dating scene and have no desire to settle down? Good luck with that!

The thing is, these 2000 guys all frequent the same bars/ restaurants/ gyms, etc. to the point where it's not totally unrealistic to think that she could come across 5-40 of them (40, on the high end, would be 2% of your "conservative" estimate) over the course of a year of searching and dating at the right places. Social circles are small; she just has to find the crowd she's looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

1. I won't bash you for your goals. That's the exact setup my wife and I have. I am in your age demographic (mid-30s) and make nearly double your desired income threshold. But then again, I made $30k when my wife married me.

2. 75% of HOUSEHOLDS make less than $140k in the DC Area (note: that includes dual earner households). So, no, nearly all men do not make $150k in DC by their mid-30s. That number is probably closer to 5%.

3. The vast majority of guys that do make that kind of money tend to be risk averse strivers. They marry women they meet when they are young or in grad school. The only real exception is men in high finance.

4. To answer your question, you face long odds for what you're looking for. Maybe try to get into a top MBA program?

Thanks for your response!

I know. The guys like this I knew all paired up when we were about 25 26 to whatever girl they were dating then. So I know the pool is now very small.

As a mind thirties guy, do you know any guys in your friends group who would go for an early thirties woman like me?

BTW what do you do to make that much? Wow! good for you!!

I'm in investment banking.

Of my professional and social circle, I know of one guy that fits the bill. He screwed up badly and refused to commit to marriage to an absolutely gorgeous, professional woman that he dated for years. We (old fraternity brothers that still get together) legit told him to get married. As I recall, she wasn't even pressuring him to get married. She just wanted to know that they were moving in that direction in their late 20s. Long story short, she broke up with him, he knows he made a huge mistake, and she married a lawyer. He's probably the kind of guy you are looking for. He's now been in Europe for 4 years on a rotation for his company.

My two closest fraternity brothers sort of validate your idea of high earning men: one is in banking, the other a doctor. Both married women they met in their early 20s. None of us is 36, yet, but between the three of us we already have 7 kids total.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

This is OP.

The responses to this thread have been funny.

I am not expecting a 25 year old with a 150k salary. I am looking at men in their 30s. At least by 35 almost all men in the DC area make about much. From what I gather that is the minimum amount required in order to have a house, and provide for a child and a SAHM in this area. I want to stay with my kid at home for a few years and would need to depend on my husband and so he needs to be able to support that.

And honestly as a marriage minded woman, I am not seeking to be CEO. I earn enough to live, get a mani pedi and by my beauty products. With a husband, I will be more than okay.

If you wanted the SAHM life an that salary you've missed the boat. You have to lock a guy like that down in your 20's. If you wanted to go the SAHM route and find that salary you should have dated one of these 30 yr old men and locked him down in your 20's. If that's truly the lifestyle you want you need to bump your search up in age and start looking for a 40-45 yr old man who could provide that lifestyle or move to an area like Austin where COL is cheaper and there's still a lot of high earners like you're looking for. Today's crop of 30 yr old men looking to find a SAHM are looking at women in their 20's. You have to realize you're fishing in a very very small pond. If you keep such narrow search parameters you need to realize you might not just put being a SAHM at risk but being a mother if you keep waiting for the dream guy that doesn't exist. And no, most men by 35 in the DC area don't make 150k a year. That's the wonderful thing about census data it's easy to see. Only 25% of Households (not individual) make between 100k-200k in the DMV. 15% make 200k or more.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1150000-washington-dc/

Cut it out with the census data already. Jesus Christ. You people are relentless. Someone who is a college educated professional (whether you count Op or not in that group is up to you) is not going to be dating in the bottom 50% most places you go. INCLUDING HERE in DC. Do you people have any friends who are not under-achieving college people? These are the folks who never got a college education (I realize many people in trade jobs make a lot, we are talking many of the others), they never finished high school, they are living on government handout. HELLO, DC?

Are you people suggesting she start dating the welfare recipients? Someone who don't have a lick of college?

Ridiculous. Just cut the BS already.

+100

Seriously. Census data only tells part of the story. Just go on a dating app like hinge or the league and you'll immediately narrow down to at least 35% of guys in those profiles making over 100k in the 26-35 age range. At the VERY least. Probably more like 50%+.

The DMV "area" and Bay "area" are still relatively huge "areas," with lots of different people, clearly, many of whom didn't graduate college. Hell, only 40% of ALL Americans have an Associates or more. Like finds like.

+1

The staggering number of Americans who haven't had any higher education is huge. You know our FB pages? I have very few friends (mostly left over from my public HS) who didn't go to college. But if you know where to go, you'll find that the number of people who have degrees is in the very small minority. We are an exceptionally striated country; it is like two different worlds. They are in their bubble, with their reality and beliefs and thinking, and we are in ours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

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That's not at all what OP said, and if that's what she meant, she should have come back on the board and clarified herself. She made clear that was a minimum salary requirement, which happens to be 2.5 times what she brings in. LOL.

Based on your obsession with this, I am going go ahead and guess that you are ugly but make a lot of money.

What do my looks and how much $$ I make have to do with anything? I'm not the single-30 something claiming there aren't any quality men out there!

Because it is obvious you want the realities of dating to be different than they are. There is no rational reason to want that. You would only want it for some ego reason, which is a curiosity to me. That's all. Keep on fighting the tide.

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Are you people suggesting she start dating the welfare recipients? Someone who don't have a lick of college?

Yes, I make less than $150k, so I must be on welfare without a college education.

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Anonymous wrote:Christ people this thread is eyeopening.. 150k is NOT an absurd threshold at all!!! I don't think I know any guys making LESS than that and I'm in my late 20's.

Not trolling, just, wow- guess not many come from SF/NYC/Boston where that's completely normal.

I agree. Basically op is just saying she wants to date a man with a professional job. In other words, some sort of office worker.

I dated a good bit before meeting and marrying my husband and almost every man I dated made this sort of salary by the time he was in his 30s

I highly doubt OP would turn down a resident doctor or someone in grad school, just started a business etc. she just wants a motivated man with a college degree, which isn't that unusual.

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That's not at all what OP said, and if that's what she meant, she should have come back on the board and clarified herself. She made clear that was a minimum salary requirement, which happens to be 2.5 times what she brings in. LOL.

Based on your obsession with this, I am going go ahead and guess that you are ugly but make a lot of money.

What do my looks and how much $$ I make have to do with anything? I'm not the single-30 something claiming there aren't any quality men out there!

Because it is obvious you want the realities of dating to be different than they are. There is no rational reason to want that. You would only want it for some ego reason, which is a curiosity to me. That's all. Keep on fighting the tide.

To want what?