America's Drunkest Cities

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As surveyed by Forbes magazine.

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so proud.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

number two!
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― p@reene (Pareene), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I was clicking waiting for the result, then I realized this is the same magazine that recently had a huge article about why women who are making money are ultimately amoral, divorce-havin', crazy bitches who only want to make men miserable.

Forbes is now biz-Vice?

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

their stock photo is brilliant

http://images.forbes.com/media/2006/08/18/drunk_clk.jpg

but not as good as patsy w/ the bottle of vodka

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well, we made No. 20. God knows I'm doing my part.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's a bit annoying that you can't see the whole list in one place.

The top 10 skews heavily Midwest (and St. Louis is 11th):

Milwaukee
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Columbus
Boston
Austin
Chicago
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Providence

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, and the "In Pictures: America's Drunkest Cities" seems to just be stock photos, many from the same bar (i.e., not, as you'd expect, pictures of drinkers from the various cities).

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, funny - the instant I saw the title I thought "Milwaukee" and then I read the article..

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a picture of a drinker in Chicago:

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

HAYMC

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm amazed St. Louis missed the Top 10. And surprised NYC did, too. (I certainly did more drinking there than in STL thanks to the no-driving factor.)

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

9 cold weather cities in the top 10, several with large student populations in huge alcohol-related non shocka.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

also the midwest seems to be pretty well represented

yesterday i saw a headline saying that wellesley did not top the list of party schools. wow, thanks for the heads up.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's the meanest look I've ever seen from jaymc.

Funny, though, the people in Milwaukee didn't seem all that drunk. Must be their experience.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

mpls likes to party, it's true.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm mostly amazed at how triangular my head looks there.

Maria: I thought you were at W!ll!ams?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i am, but one of my best friends is there so i've heard a lot about it lately. i just thought that was a funny headline.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Austin is officially no longer cool.

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― milo z (mlp), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

i find it hard to believe L.A. ranks higher than NYC, just because it's more difficult to have a night on the town in L.A. because of the relative paucity of public transportation when compared to NYC...

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking goddamn right. We'll step up to #1 next year if I have anything to say about it.

― John Justen, All Dude Dual Groom Swordfight Revue (johnjusten), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's not more difficult, you just have to learn how to avoid cops while you drive home drunk. Pretty much just like Austin.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

all i know is when i was in nyc, everyone was drunk. literally every single person in that city reeked of liquor.

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

cabbies with vodka, cops with bourbon, priests with moonshine.

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

babies nursed with labatt's

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think surveys like this deliberately rank New York like 50th or whatever just to fuck with people. Like, "Oh you think just because it's the largest city in the country, it's also the city with the most people? Wrong! Check your conventional wisdom at the door!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

'what city in the u.s. has the most new yorkers? that's right: portland, oregon.'

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Twin Cities didn't seem all that drunk the week I was there in '94.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

we hadn't turned 21 yet.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh you think just because it's the largest city in the country, it's also the city with the most people?"

Are you drunk?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

do any of the people in the pictures actually seem representative of the town (to the extent that's possible in the first place)?

i'm not surprised by NY or LA's placement. in LA or elsewhere, you don't have to go out to drink, of course, and the number of bars in NY may be more reflective of the number of people than the number or heaviness of drinkers. and NY's culture, especially these days, may be more work-play disproportionate than other places. if you were a douche, you could say that the list is roughly an inverse list of how much there is to do besides drink in each city, with weighting factors of temperature (the warmer/nicer it is, the easier it is to have fun other ways) and age-demographics (elderly less likely to drink?).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: or yogi berra?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) No, I don't live in Minneapolis like you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

(does 'largest' mean area?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I meant it to mean "most populous" and was about to clarify, but I had already hit Submit.

JOEKS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

definitely more to do in providence than chicago

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

all i know is that i moved from chicago to minneapolis & minneapolis shoots to #2 and chicago falls to #6. that's quite the influence of one person.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

tho on second thought it seems temp is the weightiest factor, and age 2nd. i haven't figured out Detroit (reeeally car-centric? and poor?) or Indianapolis (car-centric and teetotalling?) tho.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

there's also the factor of less-legal intoxicant choices

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

"all i know is that i moved from chicago to minneapolis & minneapolis shoots to #2 and chicago falls to #6. that's quite the influence of one person.
-- Sweet Tater (kelstarr...) (webmail), August 25th, 2006 2:51 PM. (kelstarry) (link)"

Welcome to the team. You were obviously a good draft choice.

― John Justen, All Dude Dual Groom Swordfight Revue (johnjusten), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

are you a twin cities person?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Born and raised.

― John Justen, All Dude Dual Groom Swordfight Revue (johnjusten), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

At the risk of sounding like an alcoholic, is an adult woman who drinks more than one drink/day really a heavy drinker?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

May we present you with the churchkey to the city?

xpost: No, not at all. I suppose it depends on the size of the drinks. Forties might be a bad indicator.

― John Justen, All Dude Dual Groom Swordfight Revue (johnjusten), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

nice! i just moved here right before the summer. it's a damn great city. two, really.

i wondered if they put that in the article b/c women metabolize alcohol differently than men. one of the articles I read said that one drink for a woman is akin to two drinks for a man.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, but the criterion for a dude being a heavy drinker sounds kind of easy-to-meet to me, too! more than 2 drinks a day? that's easily done...

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, my 5'1" 110 lb. girlfriend routinely drinks me under the table.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

(5'3" I mean. But still.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

i currently work at an addiction center that specializes in interventions. i should really refrain from speaking on the subject as everything makes me paranoid these days...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to be appraised of regular drinkfests of MPLS/STPL ilxors, you really ought to check in on the (frequently terrifying) Hastings threads. We seem to have shanghaied the Minnesota FAP planning.

xpost: or perhaps not. I don't think any of us wants to be intervened at the moment. :)

― John Justen, All Dude Dual Groom Swordfight Revue (johnjusten), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, fucking Forbes survey, for making me examine my life. that should never happen.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

it's easy to take the bus home late at night in LA (a lot of routes have all-night service); the question is whether you feel like waiting at a deserted stop until the bus arrives and then walking home after it gets to your stop.

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

how cheap/expensive are cabs in LA?

i didnt think public transport in LA was bad at all, though i may have had low expectations due to having read how bad it was before i went there. but, compared to, say...houston?

― -- (688), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

The top 10 skews heavily Midwest

hey yunz guys, pittsburgh ain't the midwest

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Go choke on a gumband.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

apparently, all bars in the top 20 cities are filled with assholes. big, gaping, assholes. (except Cincinnati, where the photographer was too drunk to focus)

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This last photo is an onion article waiting to happen.

― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

actually, some captions are in order

― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Drunks always have the most perfect teeth, it's true

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

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SO GONNA HAPPEN?

― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

this is so quaint - "what? no, of course not, drunks would never get behind the wheel in LA, that's crazy talk." drunks be driving all over the place, if you're a drunk and don't live in a city w/ public transport, you go out anyway.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

hey douche, i know plenty of people in l.a. who cut back on their drinking when they came here because of that very reason.

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

though obv if you really want to drink you're gonna do it

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

how *do* people go out in LA, I've always wondered. is there lots of designated driving? is it that you just have one drink? or that you stay out for hours and stagger the drinks? lots of bar food?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

easy there, i'm just pointing out the diff between drunks and drinkers

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

cf: earlier question about cabs, in la

― -- (688), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

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― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, this is what being drunk in Boston looks like:

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― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 25 August 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/fresno-calif--tops-list-of-drunkest-us-cities-boston-is-last/1

SF #85

― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 February 2010 18:51 (fifteen years ago)

Actually 86, Shakey, but I bet that has a lot to do w/public transport.

― L'obamalâtrie obligatoire (Michael White), Friday, 5 February 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)

"85.) Chicago, IL B"

yea we totally ill b

― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Friday, 5 February 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

Although I cannot speak for all Angelenos, I, for one tend to do more drinking at home b/c of the ease with which one can get a DUI here.

BTW - if anyone needs a good LA area DUI dude, I got a really good one. Holla.

― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 5 February 2010 23:12 (fifteen years ago)

Whereas I can stumble/bus/cab home with great ease from my watering holes.

― L'obamalâtrie obligatoire (Michael White), Friday, 5 February 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

how is boston less drunk than salt lake city? whatever methodology they used must have been pretty retarded

― iatee, Friday, 5 February 2010 23:17 (fifteen years ago)

Not only is Fresno #1 in drunkenness, it's also the City Addicted To Crystal Meth

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 5 February 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

at least 3 of the factors have to do with DUI, which is too much in my opinion

― harbl, Friday, 5 February 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, this is "which city has the worst alcohol-related policies" more than anything.

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, 5 February 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

89.) Philadelphia, PA B+

not the city i grew up in/around.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 5 February 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

you'd think straight alcohol consumption per capita would be a much better measure - there aren't any cities in the top 30 or so with a robust public transit system or great walkability.

― I DIED, Friday, 5 February 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

I am insulted! My city is far drunker than this list would indicate! And so forth.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 6 February 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

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