The gold-digging starts here!
May. 9th, 2005 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_squiddyAccording to a recent survey, the average cost of a first date is £200.
"Love doesn't come cheap in Britain where the typical date costs £200, according to a survey of some of the nation's 8.6 million 'singletons'. On average, the single British man or woman goes out on a date five times a year, with the Welsh the keenest date hunters, spending more on looking for that someone special in bars and clubs."*
Two hundred pounds? What??? Where are these people? A typical date for me is normally:
Ticket to the cinema/bowling alley (using out-of-date student card) - £3.50
Couple of pints in nearby pub - £5
Disgusting fried animal from dodgy takeaway - £3.95
Video hire - £2.50
That's £25 for two - and you'd have to fight me to get away with paying for everything by yourself. Admittedly, I'd be much happier to be taken go-karting or paintballing or monster-trucking or somewhere else loud, mucky and painful, but I still reckon that's got to be £80 to £100 tops. I'm interested now: what's your typical first date like? How much do you spend/is spent on you?
I have to stop going out with students and recently graduated call-centre operatives.
Actually, you know what? YouGov, the company who ran the survey do a lot of interesting stuff. Their website should be pretty good reading for politics and sociology students (and bored people who like filling out polls).
*You can see the full article here. It's the only place I could find it.
"Love doesn't come cheap in Britain where the typical date costs £200, according to a survey of some of the nation's 8.6 million 'singletons'. On average, the single British man or woman goes out on a date five times a year, with the Welsh the keenest date hunters, spending more on looking for that someone special in bars and clubs."*
Two hundred pounds? What??? Where are these people? A typical date for me is normally:
That's £25 for two - and you'd have to fight me to get away with paying for everything by yourself. Admittedly, I'd be much happier to be taken go-karting or paintballing or monster-trucking or somewhere else loud, mucky and painful, but I still reckon that's got to be £80 to £100 tops. I'm interested now: what's your typical first date like? How much do you spend/is spent on you?
I have to stop going out with students and recently graduated call-centre operatives.
Actually, you know what? YouGov, the company who ran the survey do a lot of interesting stuff. Their website should be pretty good reading for politics and sociology students (and bored people who like filling out polls).
*You can see the full article here. It's the only place I could find it.
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Date: 2005-05-09 01:44 pm (UTC)Has to be said, it must've worked cause it took a year for us to get bored of each other!
I'm pretty damn sure i've been on 1st dates that we're completely free..
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Date: 2005-05-09 02:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-09 02:16 pm (UTC)Although i was a complete retard the year after, she had a bloke & we we're still quite good friends. I ended up paying for his ticket, and the bint never paid me back cause we all had a big argument.