Atlanta, how do we rank for singles? Better than Birmingham!

Not again.

First it was missing the top ten as a sports town. Now, we're getting serious. By which we mean, seriously dissed. It is the rankings as a place to be a single person – and once more, Atlanta is … yes, number eleven.

Sigh.

But once again, the list-happy folks at WalletHub have crunched the numbers and Atlanta has come up lacking. Not bad, exactly – after all we are way ahead of Birmingham. But we ain't near the top.

WalletHub, a Washington, D.C.-based web site centered on credit and financial information for consumers, used a combo platter of metrics. Some factors were about the economics of romance (did you know that Indianapolis has the lowest average price for a bottle of wine? It's $3.96, which does kind of make you wonder what kind of impression you'd make on a date).

Alternately, the lowest price for a movie ticket is in Corpus Christi, where you can score one for your date with just $8.47.

By comparison, movie tickets are more than $15 each in Vancouver, Wash.

And if you are looking for singles, would you be interested to know that Detroit has the highest share of single persons: Three of every four adults is single.

Yes Detroit – romance capital of America!!

The excuse for doing the ranking is the holiday season. WalletHub is concerned about people who may not have a family around them, a wife or husband or whatever, to share time and presents and eggnog with this time of year.

Even if there are some families you just might prefer to avoid at the holidays.

Anyhow, for a look at the details of the WalletHub report, click here.

For a date, click right – no, sorry. For that, you are on your own.

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TOP CITIES TO BE SINGLE

1 San Francisco, CA

2 Orlando, FL

3 Seattle, WA

4 San Diego, CA

5 Boston, MA

6 Austin, TX

7 Las Vegas, NV

8 Phoenix, AZ

9 Miami, FL

10 Los Angeles, CA

11 Atlanta, GA

66 Charlotte, NC

97 Birmingham, AL

Source: WalletHub

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