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Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day for the first two weeks of February, until Valentine's Day. Remember when everyone was moving to Alaska? Okay, maybe no one actually was moving, but bachelorettes all over the country were joking about relocating to Juneau or Sitka because, according to those morning show polls, that's where all the men were. Well, now that distinction seems to have been bestowed upon Silicon Valley. Last year, it had the highest ratio of single guys to single women in the country.

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Silicon Valley is one of the most technologically advanced and innovative regions in the world. However, when it comes to dating, Silicon Valley can be a tough place to find love. Long work hours: Employees in Silicon Valley typically work long hours, leaving little time for social interaction and dating. Competition: Silicon Valley is filled with highly intelligent and ambitious individuals who are fiercely competitive, making it difficult to make a meaningful connection.

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On a Friday night in downtown Palo Alto — just a stone's throw from Stanford University, office buildings and the technology hub of San Jose — the college bars and vegan restaurants lining its streets teemed with single men. But at Nola, a Creole-themed bar with notoriously bad service, Erika, 25, wasn't having much luck meeting single guys. However, none of the maybe 30 men surrounding us were eager to start a conversation," Erika, who lives in nearby San Jose, told Mic. But it's par for the course in the sunny suburban sprawl of San Jose and the surrounding Bay Area cities, home to technology giants like Facebook, Google and Cisco, where college-educated single men outnumber women.

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