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He’s living the summer of George.
Long Islander Michael Nicosia has become the area’s most desirable bachelor — by enjoying his own personal version of George Costanza’s classic “Seinfeld” reverse-psychology pickup line: “I’m unemployed, and I live with my parents.”
“I’m not joking when I say over 100 women wanted to go on a date in July alone,” Nicosia, 31, told The Post.
“And it’s all thanks to the worst year I ever had.”
The former Goldman Sachs worker’s dating life shot up like a bull market when the popular social-media dating page Hot and Single posted a clip of the muscular macho running his fingers through his hair in a sultry white T-shirt this summer.
“Not so many seemed to care about the living or job situation,” said Nicosia, being candid about moving back in with Mom and Dad in Hicksville after losing his finance job.
“It feels like I’m living out George’s wildest dreams,” quipped the aberrant Romeo, a devout fan of the show about nothing who has Georgie beaten hands down in the looks department.
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The ladies, instead, were solely magnetized by Nicosia’s dashing looks and charming personality mixing adventure and faith.
“This sounds like the man of my dreams,” wrote a woman, one of about 450 who commented on the post, which was liked more than 2,000 times.
Another bluntly wrote, “Mike is hot.”
A mom even recommended him for her 28-year-old daughter in the comments.
The well-known app Cuffed Dating followed up by doing an interview with Nicosia about what makes him tick and asking him more questions about finding the one.
“Then the DMs started – and they still haven’t stopped,” he told The Post.
It’s all been a stark contrast to 2025, when the handsome Nicosia thought he had everything in his life planned out.
He was living and thriving in Dallas, where he had moved in 2021 for a white-collar investor-relations role.
Nicosia had always kept in fabulous shape, routinely pumping iron, while dating his true love, whom he was headed toward moving in with, marrying and settling down with permanently in the south.
Then the nose-dive began — literally.
Nicosia plummeted down a flight of stairs while carrying groceries and broke his foot and injured his ankle in multiple places, leaving him bound to a boot that sidelined him from the gym for months.
It happened not long after his beloved Australian Shepherd, Rocky, passed.
Then his girlfriend broke up with him to seek greener pastures; and, to top it all off, Goldman laid him off.
“My life turned into the biblical Book of Job,” Nicosia said.
The terrible chain of events left him totally lonesome in the Lone Star State by April — and then, to rub it in, his car broke down without hope of repair a month later.
“I really didn’t have anyone I was close with who didn’t live half a country away,” he said.
“And the job hunt was going less than ideal.”
Soon enough, the inevitable happened. Nicosia had to take the drive of shame back home to the island — in a rental — where his mom, Luba, dad, Mike, and brother, Daniel, all welcomed him back with open arms in late June.
Still, they hated seeing their beloved son have to start all over on such awful terms.
“My dad was even willing to get me an apartment in the city just to make it easier to meet women,” Nicosia said.
“Going through all of that alone was something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.”
The nadir of his adult life became a sudden, shocking zenith when Nicosia eventually put himself out there and messaged the social page to see if it would promote him.
“They got back to me instantaneously; they were so excited to put me up as soon as possible,” he said.
Women from across the country have since reached out, trying to get a slice of the hot commodity who does food-content creation under his alias “Mikey Meatball Eats.”
“I live in CA unfortunately – you never know though,” wrote a fan of the man.
Another added, “I’m ready for you to turn me into a foodie.”
He was getting 100 weekly messages at his July high and still enjoys a steady three or four new ladies sliding into his messages per week as September approaches.
“You want to talk about a confidence booster,” Nicosia laughed.
Nicosia said he’s been asked out around 150 times total now — he has gone on a super selective five dates so far — and is even in the process of casting for a few dating shows, which he must keep mum about at the moment.
He’s also getting tons of job interviews, as everything is on the up and up.
“I won’t be unemployed forever, and it looks like I’ll be meeting the right one sooner rather than later,” Nicosia said.
“I may have lost the life I thought I was going to have, but now I get to build a new one.”
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