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# ‘Love Is Blind’ Is Coming to Austin, Home of Horribly Behaved Singles
- URL: https://www.thebarbedwire.com/uh-oh-love-is-blind-casting-austin/
- Published: 2025-07-30T15:08:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-30T15:08:52.000Z
- Author: Riya Misra
- Tags: Culture, News, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Love Texas, Arts & Entertainment

Tech bros, it’s your time to shine — “[Love is Blind” is casting](https://www.instagram.com/p/DMtiI1fM5Wl/?hl=en&ref=thebarbedwire.com) in Austin.

The mega-popular show, where faceless singles meet behind a screen, fall in love, and get engaged (to varying degrees of success), bases itself out of one city for each season. The eight-season show has already had its moment in Dallas and Houston, and has yielded one successful match from each city.

“Love is Blind” operates on a hyper-accelerated timeline, where candidates spend 10 days “dating” (having hours-long conversations with love interests) in sectioned-off pods, unable to see or meet each other. To make it out of the pods, couples need to first establish a connection, commit to each other, and get *engaged*, yes, to a partner they’ve known for a mere 10 days. Then, the newly-minted fiancées will meet in person.

It might be a lofty goal to cast in the [slightly male-dominated](https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/austin-tx-population-by-gender/?ref=thebarbedwire.com) Austin, whose men earned [Match.com](http://match.com/?ref=thebarbedwire.com)’s 2018 label of “worst behaved singles” in the country — and, in that same study, were statistically deemed 549% more likely to ghost their dates, [KVUE reported at the time](https://www.kvue.com/article/features/trending-today/austin-men-notorious-for-ghosting-breadcrumbing-dates-study/269-513538702?ref=thebarbedwire.com#:~:text=According%20to%20Match.com%2C%20Austin,someone's%20life%20as%20a%20zombie.).

In 2024, [writer Rose McMackin](https://www.thebarbedwire.com/hot-cowboy-fantasy-competence-texas/) penned an [essay for *Austin Monthly*](https://www.austinmonthly.com/dating-in-austin-texas-cursed/?ref=thebarbedwire.com) about the city’s “cursed” dating scene — a sort of “real world Never Never Land,” McMackin wrote. “Especially when deep-pocket tech employers like Tesla and Google are here to bankroll it.”

But as a whole, “Love Is Blind” is not the most reliable matchmaker out there; across eight seasons and 42 couples, the show has produced just nine successful marriages. So while it may not be great dating in Silicon Hills, it’ll sure be great television.