Report: Love Does Cost A Thing

WBZ NewsRadio's Jay Willett reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The first date. I don't mind paying as long as
it's not me forever.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
How much are you dishing out for a first date?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Turns out the Northeast Corridor is not shy to shell
out the big bucks.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
Oh god, first dates? Maybe four or five hundred dollars?
What first date? Well, yeah, if you really want to impress.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Newsweek took a pull of a couple thousand adults and
found singles ready to mingle and get off the hinge.
We'll spend just short of one hundred and forty bucks
on an inaugural meet and greet.

Speaker 5 (00:25):
Man, I want to say, like two hundred bucks that date.
That's not that's not for me, that's what that's what
my I'm expecting the girl to want.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's not. I don't make the rules, but that's that's
what they want.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Locals here in the North Shore concur so.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm ready to make like a car down payment amount
of money to make a good first impression.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Jay Willette, WBZ, Boston's news radio