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In a recent survey, Denver was ranked as the best city in America to be single.
Each year Forbes magazine comes up with a list of the best places for single people to live and Denver has ranked No. 1 for the third year in a row.
But if this is such a great place for singles, why are there so many people here who just can't meet that special someone?
"I haven't been on a date in like three years," said one Denver single. "I thought he did come and try to sweep me off my feet but I was wrong."
Even in the best city for singles, its tough out there.
"I want to settle down," said a Denver single. "I'm looking to have kids within the next three years but I haven't found that woman so hopefully some day."
Matt Buschbacher has devoted his life to studying what it takes to attract the opposite sex.
"You have to approach. You absolutely have to approach," said Buschbacher.
Buschbacher has written a book on dating beautiful women and formed a club called Denver Pickup Artists.
He said finding that special someone takes guts.
"You have zero chance of meeting a woman that you enjoy and want to have in your life if you don't approach and infinite more possibilities of meeting that woman if you do approach," said Buschbacher.
He said the same goes for women.
Happen Magazine's Janet Siroto said most women could benefit from being bolder.
"Women tend to be very subtle if they're interested in a guy and we'd say go ahead and let him know," said Siroto. "Don't just hang around and wait for excuses. Ask him out for coffee. Take a risk."
The catch, experts said, is you have to show you're interested, but you don't want to seem too interested.
"I like the thrill of the catch," said "I don't like knowing that I caught them before we even went on our date."
"That's not very attractive to women, what's really attractive to women is showing that you're a challenge, showing that you're not easily attainable," said Buschbacher.
Buschbacher, the pickup artist, said the key is to be flirty right away but then relax. He said don't come on too strong and again, whether you're a man or a woman, you've got to make the first move.
A recent Match.com survey found nearly 95 percent of men and women say they've been attracted to someone but never really acted on that attraction.
It also found that the majority of both men and women are apparently hopeless romantics.
Seventy-one percent of women and 61 percent of men said they would rather spend one year with the love of their life than never fall in love at all.
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