Dating in the Bay Area: Your Stories

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's on the apps or in real life it can be hard to meet romantic partners. We explore what it's like to be dating right now in the Bay Area. This episode is brought to you by the team over on KQED's The Bay podcast. Additional Reading: Read the transcript for this episode Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Christopher Beale, with support this week from Brian Douglas. The Bay episode was produced by Jessica Kariisa and Dana Cronin. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Alana Walker, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.

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0:00.0	In Los Angeles, survivors of last month's wildfires are beginning to rebuild.
0:06.2	There's so much love coming to the surface. Across California, those who have been there before
0:11.7	offer insights on how. And whatever we've learned, we have to pass on to the next group.
0:17.7	I'm Aaron Baldessari, host of KQED's podcast, Sold Out, Rethinking Housing
0:22.7	in America. Find our special series about how to chart a more resilient path wherever you
0:28.7	get your podcasts. From KQED. I'm Olivia Allen Price, and this is Bay Curious, the podcast that answers questions about the
0:39.7	Bay Area, including about its people and culture. Today, we're tackling a topic that I know
0:46.4	a lot of you are waiting through right now, dating in the Bay Area. A few weeks back, we shared a
0:53.1	call out from another KQED podcast, The Bay, and they were
0:57.2	wanting to hear about your experiences dating here.
1:01.1	Let's just say that you really delivered.
1:06.4	It just seems like men are kind of sleeping with everyone and have a very short attention span.
1:12.6	It doesn't really seem worth it, to be honest.
1:15.6	I met someone who was online, it ended up getting so bad, contracted three STDs from the guy,
1:24.6	when he said he was monogamous and SCD-free, and then I ended up taking him to court
1:29.7	after we had broken up. My last decent dinner date was 1997.
1:36.3	Tinder, Bumble, Kinch, OkCupid, coffee is day home. I started with dating websites and evolved
1:43.3	through several dating apps.
1:45.6	I finally met my husband in Golden Gate Park where we were walking our dogs.
1:50.1	From navigating the apps to trying to meet people in real life,
1:54.3	we heard a lot about the highs and lows of the Bay Area dating scene.
1:59.0	Today, we're sharing the Bay's episode to dig a little deeper into what it takes to find
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