SoFla Dating Scene.

You can always trust me to give you the low down, nitty gritty, real deal on whatever topic I discuss on this blog. I can tell you right now with no hesitation the dating scene for sensible men in South Florida is total garbage. This is my second tour of duty down here, this time living in Palm Beach, my first time being several years ago when I lived South of Miami. I may as well let you ladies know right now that what I’m about to reveal to you is going to be the bitter truth, so if you’re faint of heart or easily offended I suggest you stop reading now. After being here my second time around for nearly a year I’ve dated several women all except one having not one, not two but three illegitimate children. There was a time when I wouldn’t give a woman with one child a second look let alone a woman with three. However, over time I had to—yes—lower my standards and began dating single mothers due to the enormous influx.

In all seriousness—what is wrong with these women? Okay, I’ve grown to understand and accept a woman making a mistake and having one child out of wedlock but having two or three? And what is so daunting is the fact that there are so many women out there with multiple children. Come on—a woman pushes the envelope of reason when she has one child after another yet still thinks she can consider herself to be romantically marketable—expecting single men that have never had any children to all of a sudden accommodate them and their daycare center of children. When two people meet and develop romantic interest in each other they are supposed to have the time to give each other their undivided attention. Now the dating scene is so overrun with single mothers the time you spend with a single mom becomes a gamble.

How many dates will be canceled or cut short because she couldn’t find a babysitter? How many times are you going to have to be a pretend father because her kids are too much for her to handle alone? How many times are you going to have to run into the biological father and have him fuck up your plans because he doesn’t want to see his ex-wife (or in many cases just a former partner) move on with her life? How many times are you going to have to pretend like you’re just mommy’s friend so as not to improperly influence her impressionable children? How many times are you going to have to sit there on the phone or in person all night and listen to all her angst about being a single mom—knowing there ain’t a damn thing you can do or say but just sit there like a bobble-head toy and listen helplessly.

 Trust me, guys, when I tell you, you can go to any woman’s blog, website or a talk show, newspaper or magazine in South Florida and they will fill your mind with a bunch of bald-faced lies about there being no men to date. You can walk around anywhere, any time of the day or night and any day of the week and you will see nothing but women with their men in tow or women when their children in tow. Through observation you can surmise from the boyfriend’s body language he’s draped all over his woman for a reason. Either he knows he can easily be replaced at the drop of a hat or he’s in intense competition with a not quite ex-boyfriend, which is why you can’t talk to a woman in the gym—her boyfriend is never too far away. He periodically checks up on her while she’s trying to run a few miles on a treadmill or if he’s really insecure he’ll never leave her—working out with her side by side.

You can’t really interact with many women you meet at the club or the bar scene because they’re always with a gang of girlfriends that have a third degree black belt in cock blocking. Many of the women I’ve encountered, particularly, black women, aren’t traditionally single. Down here it’s the exact opposite—women aren’t interested in a man if he’s single, meaning completely by himself. They’ll only chase after a man if he’s involved with someone else. You get into a conversation with a sister and she’ll quickly tell you she doesn’t have a boyfriend but she’s in a “situation”.  You tell her you don’t get down like that and she’ll laugh at you either because she thinks you’re lying or because being a cheating ass two-timer is such the norm down here that you’re considered a freak if you don’t have anyone on the side.

I know at this point you’re thinking to yourselves that I’m just some negative, whinny loser with no game or I don’t have good luck with women because I’m too busy only chasing after the supermodel-looking females. Wrong. For a moment I was beginning to think I had lost my touch—it must be me. Then I decided to do a little research just to see another point of view  of South Florida. I came across an article online by Men’s Health entitled: The Best and Worst Places for Men to Live.

Miami was rated very low amongst the best places for men to live ranking a pitiful 89th, even below my hometown, Birmingham, Alabama, which came in at 88th and country ass Montgomery, Alabama (I can’t figure out how Montgomery rated higher than Bigger and more contemporary Birmingham) at 46th place. In contrast places like Durham, North Carolina came in at an impressive 10th place and Raleigh came in at 22nd place. I can personally vouch for both cities. I spent a few days with my cousins in Raleigh and Durham and I can tell you I haven’t met more friendly women anywhere else in North America. Not only are the women in general very friendly the very best looking women are surprisingly friendly. While scouting around town women made eye contact with me, smiled and even carried on small talk. Low and behold everywhere I went women in Raleigh and Durham would even selflessly scurry to the door and open it for me. In contrast, down here in South Florida you’ll be lucky if a woman doesn’t knock you down even if you’re trying to open the door for her and you’ll be lucky if she even looks in your direction, that is, if you can tell she is looking in your direction because designer shades are the rage down here.

It’s surprising how many women are either unattractive or overweight in South Florida, which only gives the attractive, fit women all the more reason to be arrogant, rude and obnoxious. While waiting in line at a clothing store the other day I witnessed a voluptuous, lean, athletic tanning salon brown woman with striking blue eyes and short curly blonde hair callously force her way through the cash register line while talking on her cellphone, bull dozing a shorter less attractive woman without even saying excuse me.

Now don’t get me wrong—in all that I’ve told you about the dating scene here don’t think it’s all gloom and doom. You know the old saying: “When in Rome….” If you’re willing to ditch the more conservative, mature, reasonable side of your personality and emphasize your more arrogant, immature, pompous, insensitive side you’ll get along just fine. Surprisingly, even though none of these women will admit to it, many of them are very thoughtless and shamelessly immature.  They gravitate to ignorant, irresponsible, abusive, careless, insensitive, cocky, arrogant men while shying away from more sensible men. Of course any of these women will tell you men that possess these negative attributes are a turn off and they wouldn’t give such “jerks” the time of day but when you ask them what their ex-boyfriends were like and they all have the same story—crying the blues about how much they were neglected, mistreated and taken for granted.