The United States has always been a country of immigrants. Built by settlers and today still many people in this world have their own American dream; make their fortune in the land of opportunities. But what good is money if you can’t get along with the people around you? This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the figures on alcohol use in 2013 in the United States. For us an opportunity to pick a city with our kind of people. We give you the top cities in drinks per month, percentage of heavy drinkers and percentage of binge drinkers.
Now before when you check out the list you might want to check our story on the difference between heavy drinkers and binge drinkers. This may very well help to get a clear interpretation of the figures. As far as we are concerned Boston would be our town to live in. The ‘Irish city’ shares a first place with Washington DC where it comes to the average number of drinks people consume and more than 20% is labeled as a heavy drinker.
Unfortunately we only have the figures of the number 57 in the list of countries by alcohol consumption (9.44 liters pure alcohol per person). We are quite curious about further stats per city from for example Moldova (18.22), Czech Republic (16.45) or Hungary (16.27). The search for our favorite city continues, but if we ever hit the US we’re shipping off to Boston.
Average number of drinks per adult per month:
1 Boston 15.6
Washington DC 15.6
3 Charleston (S.C.) 15.3
San Francisco 15.3
5 Hartford-New Haven (Conn) 15.2
Milwaukee (Wis) 15.2
7 New Orleans 15.1
Norfolk (Va) 15.1
9 Chicago 15.0
10 Philadelphia 14.9
11 Baton Rouge (La) 14.8
12 Baltimore 14.7
13 Austin (Tex) 14.6
14 Denver 14.4
15 Providence (RI) 14.1
Percentage of heavy drinkers:
1 Cleveland 20.4
2 Boston 20.1
3 Norfolk (Va) 19.9
4 Omaha (Neb) 19.5
Springfield (Mass) 19.5
Percentage of binge drinkers:
1 Springfield (Mass) 9.2
2 Buffalo (NY) 8.7
Charleston (S.C.) 8.7
4 Reno (Nev) 8.5
5 Burlington (Vt) 7.5
Micky Bumbar
Related links:
Explanation of binge drinking and heavy drinking
Russia undisputed number one drinking country in the world
Why Indians are alcoholics and Asians can’t drink
This is like a list of places I need to visit! Love it!
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Haha indeed! I can’t say I’m too impressed by the stats, but for sure there must be some solid drinkers around haha
Cheers,
Micky
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If I recall correctly – The average Russian male drinks 90 bottles of Vodka a year! Get yourself to Moscow! haha 😉
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hahaha yeahhhh! Actually Moscow is not hardcore enough for me. In Siberia and the other in-lands they drink wayyyy more! 😛
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Haha. Yeah. I’m Australian, and we have a reputation for being BIG drinkers, but mostly it’s just crappy beer that people drink over here. As Dame Edna once said “I don’t like beer, because it’s so much like the end product”! haha. I’ve been drinking spirits exclusively for the past several months.
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Hahaha well I live in Holland at 20 km from the Belgian border, the country with some of the best beers in the world. But still we turn to spirits too of course.
Btw I’m sure the average in your city is higher than Boston or any other city in the US haha… Good drinkers those Aussies! 😀
Cheers,
Micky
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Yeah, I’m from a city called Adelaide, apparently we make some of the best wine in the world. I should try some of our wine someday. haha
Thanks.
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And the hangover cure called pie floater is from Adelaide right?! We made a post about that. Hope it’s the recipe as you know it? 🙂
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Yeah, it’s a small meat pie floating on thick pea soup. I’ve never used it as a hangover cure, though.
I drink Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee when I’m hungover. It’s a really fatty, sweet coffee flavoured drink that really does make your hangover go away really quickly.
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Oh that’s too bad. I would have loved to hear if it really worked. I’m not much of a coffee drinker myself, so in the morning I prefer a solid dish with a beer of course.
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haha. The drink I’m talking about isn’t really coffee. It’s actually a REALLY sweet, fatty, milky drink that comes in a carton of about 600ml. It hardly tastes of coffee, more like a very weak chocolate milk. But it certainly gets rid of a hangover, somehow. 😉
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I can see that happen. Dairy products are always good after drinking. And I read somewhere that sweets are too, probably since it gives you immediate energy.
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Yeah, all I know is that I’ve tried a lot of different hangover cures (cooked bacon and cucumber sandwiches etc), but nothing works as good as Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee. It’s a legendary famous drink in Adelaide! It’s only sold regularly in Adelaide in all of Australia. haha 🙂
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Hahaha is Adelaide considered to be the drinking capital of Australia?
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I think so, but I’ve just read that a city here called Perth is the binge-drinking capital of Australia.
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Good to know haha… Forget Sidney I know which places to visit first when going Down Under! 🙂
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Yeah, Sydney and Melbourne are full of Hipsters who don’t drink at all. haha
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Haha screw that! 🙂
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Born/raised/live in Boston and went to school in Burlington, VT. Look out, liver.
I’m surprised to see Springfield, MA on the heavy/binge lists. I think they must be including Amherst, MA in the general Springfield area. That would account for Zoo-Mass (UMass Amherst) and a few other colleges.
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That’s what we call a solid education haha… Actually I only know Springfield as the hometown of Homer Simpson. That would explain a lot! 😉
Cheers,
Micky
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Philly is tenth? C’mon!
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Hahaha that’s your city? Should it be higher on the list?
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