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