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Where Can You Find Love on Valentine’s Day? These 10 States Are The Best For Singles. Does Massachusetts Make the Cut?

Where Can You Find Love on Valentine’s Day? These are the Best 10 States for Singles. Does Massachusetts Make the Cut? Is Romance dead in the Bay State? Or do…

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Where Can You Find Love on Valentine's Day? These are the Best 10 States for Singles.

Does Massachusetts Make the Cut?

Is Romance dead in the Bay State? Or do frigid February temps make singles want to make a connection?

Turns out Massachusetts residents aren't so cold after all.

In fact, we made it to the top 1o of Best States for Singles.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner and high inflation making dates more expensive, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023's Best & Worst States for Singles, as well as expert commentary. To help unattached Americans improve their chances of finding love, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 30 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges from the share of single adults to online-dating opportunities to restaurants per capita.

Besides your looks, personality, interests and employment status, your location can influence your odds of finding a romantic partner.

Everyone has different priorities when searching for love, but certain places simply make dating easier than others.

In states with low cost of living, for instance, your income might stretch a lot further, which means cheaper or more frequent dates.

That’s an attractive option during this period of high inflation.

If you’re more financially stable, though, you might appreciate a state with more attractions to find new experiences for both you and your potential other half.

Dating is also a numbers game, so a state with a higher proportion of single adults automatically improves your prospects.

So where are the 10 Best States for Singles?

To answer that question, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 30 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges from the share of single adults to online-dating opportunities to restaurants per capita.

To see how your zip code affects your chances of finding love, check out WalletHub’s 10 Best States for Singles report:

10. Virginia

9. Wisconsin

8. Massachusetts

7. New Jersey

6. Illinois

5. Pennsylvania

4. Texas

3. Florida

2. New York

1. California

The WORST state for singles? West Virginia

Bummer.

Lauren Beckham Falcone is the co-host of Bob & LBF in the Morning. Formerly an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald, she credits her current success as a pop culture commentator to watching too much TV as a kid and scouring the internet too much as an adult. LBF is a regular contributor to NECN and is an honorary board member at the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. Lauren lives in Canton with her husband Dave and her daughter Lucy. Lauren writes about trending topics, New England destinations, and seasonal DIY.