Sydney Life

We all know it can be a tough life out there if you’re single. There’s no one to fend off unruly and unwanted men at a bar, you have no back up plan for Saturday night if all your friends are doing their own thing and then there’s worried and sympathetic whispers by the parents. These are problems without the complications of trying to find a partner.

I’m going to use a bit of mathematics to work out exactly how many fishies are in the sea. Note this is from a females perspective, because, well I’m a female.
There are 4 million people living in Sydney (I know there are tourists and interstate possibilities, but I’m not really interested in a long distance relationship!)
Let’s say 2 million are male.
Considering we have an ageing population let’s say 20 % of these are under the age of 30 and over the age of 18 = 400 000 males.
Let’s assume half of them are married/engaged/taken = 200 000 available males.
So without taking into account values, connection and chemistry we are looking at an available 200 000 male population.

Then, if you are Jewish like I am, you are ideally going to want to find a Jewish partner. This is not really a racist idea more than a preserve our history and culture idea. I want to light Chanukah candles with my family instead of sitting around a Christmas tree.

Let’s redo the mathematics.
The Jewish population of Sydney is something like 45 000.
22 000 are male.
20 % in the right age bracket = 4, 400.
And only about 2 000 of them are available.
That is including all the Jewish males that I have dated and that I am friends with! Also, keep in mind how difficult it is to find and meet these 2000 males – you can’t just walk into a pub and expect to find your Jewish soul mate waiting at the bar.
There is only one Yiddish phrase which is apt to end this paragraph – OY GEVULT!

A lot of Jewish singles meet at University. That’s the best place to find these 2000 potential partners as they are in the right age group and have the opportunity to find other people with the same values. There is a Jewish club called AUJS (Australian Union of Jewish Students) which has many purposes, one of which is to promote Jewish continuity! And it certainly worked with my sister – 10 years ago she met a guy at an AUJS function at UNSW, and they are now married for 3 years.

I must have chosen the wrong campus though. Cumberland is already famous for having a huge female to male ratio – something like 3:1. And even though I am a member of AUJS at my campus, there is a total of 2 Jewish guys to choose from.

OY GEVULT!!