My Hometown! 5th Drunkest City!

Non-Phish General
#1

This seems about right… :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

I’m looking at the front page of the paper I work for and Fargo, N.D. was recently named the fifth drunkest city in the U.S.!!

Here’s the list

  1. Denver
  2. Anchorage, Alaska
  3. Colorado Springs, Colo.
  4. Omaha, Neb.
  5. Fargo!
  6. San Antonio
  7. Austin, Texas
  8. Fresno, Calif.
  9. Lubbock, Texas
  10. Milwaukee

we’re drunker than fuckin’ Milwaukee.

As a drunk and a resident of Fargo, I am so proud to be a part of this ranking! (that is sarcasm, Will :wink:

#2

The results are from Men’s Health Magazine

the least drunk cities were

  1. Jersey City, N.J.
  2. Richmond, Va.
  3. New York
  4. Little Rock, Ark.
  5. Salt Lake City
  6. Yonkers, N.Y.
  7. Jackson, Miss.
  8. Buffalo, N.Y.
  9. Miami
  10. Durham, N.C.
#3

North Dakota sucks so everyone needs to get drunk!

#4

::blood boils::

#5

::cracks beer to calm down::

#6

I am really surprised Salt Lake City isn’t #1.

edit- for least drunk of course.

#7

How did Las Vegas get left off the drunk city list?!?!?! People are smashed all the time!!

#8

Omaha is #4! In your face phg!

#9

That is precisely what I was thinking, funky.

#10

I would think b/c half of them don’t live there, if not more than half and the statistics where probably based off where people live, not where the people travel and drink, or it’s not based on total consumption per city

but yeah Vegas is the walking drunk land 24/7 has to have one of the highest consumption rates of alcohol

#11

they must not have included my 4 years of steady consumption in this poll.

i’m gob-smacked

that’s ridonkey-donk

#12

North Dakota is a hidden gem.

sort of

#13

I wonder how they measured this.

Alcohol sales per capita?

#14

It said in the article…I’m sure it can be found on the Men’s Health website.

On a related and ironic note, a 52-year-old drifter was found dead in a bus stop in Moorhead Wednesday morning (Moorhead is directly across the river from Fargo, in Minnesota, and this bus stop is about 500 yards from Fargo). The cold was probably most of the reason he died, but they’re saying he had been drinking.

#15

Indeed:

“We looked at annual death rates due to alcoholic liver disease, as well as who’s headed there by regularly downing five or more drinks in a sitting (CDC). Next, we factored in drunk-driving arrests (FBI) and the percentage of fatal accidents involving intoxicated motorists (U.S. Department of Transportation). Then, after tallying the MADD report card of state efforts to cut down on excessive drinking, we had our ranking and, for the state of Colorado, an invitation to AA.”

Here’s the whole article and the top 100:

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=metrogrades&conitem=3383937f92516110VgnVCM10000013281eac____

#16

Frankly I’m surprised the top 10 wasn’t all Midwestern/Northern cities, because there’s often nothing to do here but drink yourself into a coma and wish you were dead.

#17

It does make sense that of the top-10 only 4 were “warm weather” cities.

How in the world did Miami make second-least drunk? And NYC 8th-least?

#18

Moorhead is like Fargo’s good looking older sister, based on my two times driving through it.