Forbes magazine is finally getting around to hard-hitting and revelant news stories, they’ve even brought themselves to the point of doing these stories in list form. We love lists here at TastyBooze, and this one is right up our alley. It’s Forbes’ Hardest Drinking Cities in the U.S. Half the article talks about how this list came about, it sounds all very scientific, but it came down to a survey of consumers in 33 cities with these questions:
Whether they had at least one drink of alcohol within the past 30 days; whether men had more than two drinks per day or women one drink per day; and whether they had five or more drinks on one occasion. In each case, higher-ranking cities reported larger percentages of their population answering in the affirmative.
And the results:
- 1. Austin, TX
- 2. Milwaukee, WI
- 3. San Francisco, CA
- 4. Providence, RI
- 5. Chicago, IL
- 6. Seattle, WA, Cleveland, OH, St. Louis, MO (3-way tie)
- 9. Boston, MA
- 10. Cincinnati, OH
- 11. Pittsburgh,PA
- 12. Virginia Beach, VA
- 13. Portland, OR
- 14. Jacksonville, FL
- 15. Detroit, MI
Yes! Representing for Seattle! We had 64.2% of our residents drinking in the past month, and 16.4% of residents who had five of more drinks on one occasion!
Kind of surprised we beat out Boston…and no New York or Las Vegas. Maybe it’s just the tourists from these 15 cities doing all the drinking at those destination cities.
Full list and article: Forbes.com
