Turns out your mom was right all along — it's not you, it's them. Or, more specifically, the lack of them.
The ratio of women to men in Baltimore is hopelessly skewed to the advantage of the hairy, beer-swilling, leaving-dirty-socks-on-the-bathroom-floor half of the population, according to a report in Cosmopolitan's November issue.
Charm City ranks as the fourth worst city to meet a man, because of an overabundance of never-married women, according to the magazine. Maybe it's all the ladies who make the city so charming?
So what should you do? Cosmo recommends searching through your friends' Facebook friends to hunt for single guys, because, you know, that's not creepy or desperate at all.
Or you could move out West. Cosmo says the whole gender balance is skewed in the opposite direction on the other side of the Appalachians, due to the same magnetic forces that make water swirl down the drain in the opposite direction, or something like that.