Is that the only option available for married life? Surely it's possible to marry someone who is interesting and continue doing interesting things after you're married?

> "granite countertops!"

Funnily enough, most of the time it's not made of granite at all.

Try breaking that down by age and marital status. See for instance: http://jonathansoma.com/singles/#1/3/2/0

It certainly isn't 2:1 - that was hyperbole - but it's bad. And it doesn't actually take a large absolute difference to produce huge changes in behavior. A standard economic model of this fact is explained nicely here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/rev... In the efficient market limit, an arbitrarily small perturbation in the effective gender ratio produces arbitrarily large changes in outcomes.

The 2010 census is fairly useless for Seattle at this point. Almost 100,000 people have moved here since then (16%)

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