Find your soul mate comes at a price. From tryst with a romantic dinner, the quest is difficult and expensive especially. The survey / L’Express conducted by Ifop showed that the 10 million unmarried French spend 4.6 billion euros a year to find their half. .
An average of 466 euros per year per single. Men are spending more, with about 623 euros per year, against 356 euros for women. They are also the ones who spend the most during the first appointment: 75 euros on average, against 44 euros for women. Are counted, according to the question posed in the survey, new clothes, travel, beauty treatments, hairdresser, bars, restaurants, and other useful gifts to any attempt at seduction.
Chivalry requires, in 85% of cases, they are also men who pay the bill the first appointment. A budget that increases therefore the number of games made in the year. This is also the age particularly as the main factor of distinction on this point: the average is 5.2 per year appointments with less than 35 years, 2.3 for those cons are older.
Dating sites now rank second with 40% of the plebiscite. With 11% of each successful dating services and the classifieds are relegated far behind.