My other opinion

I am so sick and tired of ‘frum’ people bad mouthing singles who live on the uws. Yes, you can be frum AND live on the upper west side. Those of us who live there have minds of our own and think outside of the box. That does not mean that we are not frum. Have you tried being an older single living in a community with only families? Have you been in our shoes??? Try it. I dare you. You think you’re doing any singles any good by saying: “oh…. you live on the uws? Oh…”. Really. Grow up. Hashem loves every jew wherever they live. What you’re doing is actually anti yiddishkeit. You are taking an elitist attitude towards singles who are having a hard time as it is. It is just absolutely obnoxious. Do you know how much kiruv goes on on the uws? People who would never have exposure to yiddishkeit at all are going to classes, being exposed to judaism in a way in which they would never be exposed to it. You think they would feel comfortable in Monsey? Passaic? Kew Gardens? Get real. We are living in a modern world. You cannot just shut your eyes and pretend that modern singles are not suffering. Taking an uppity elitist attitude is NO answer. What you are doing is creating a divide between frum singles who live outside of the uws refusing to date people who live on the uws just based on the fact that they live there. It just makes me sick how ‘frum yidden’ can be so judgmental of other frum jews simply based on their place of residence. These singles are suffering, and you are simply making it worse for them by judging them in such a manner like this.