America's Top Ten Hard Drinking Cities

kmhhansen — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:46:12 +0000

Forbes has released the results of a study to determine America’s top “hard-drinking” cities. A distinction most cities would not want. Austin, Texas topped the list with 61.5% of adults having at least one drink in the past 30 days, and 20.6% of have had five or more drinks on one occasion. Not sure why they included people having one drink in 30 days. Even five or more in a 30 day period seems kind of moderate to me assuming they are not all chugged on the same night. Maybe it was that that half of Austin enjoyed a beer or glass of wine in the past month? Or maybe that a fifth of Austinians (is that what they are called?) has gotten drunk at one time or another. The Forbes reporters working on this one, did a little too much primary research. Anyway, here are the results…

1.) Austin

2.) Milwaukee

3.) San Francisco

4.) Providence

5.) Chicago

6.) Seattle

7.) Cleveland

8.) St. Louis

9.) Boston

10.) Cincinnati

Ten Fastest Dying Cities

kmhhansen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:00:26 +0000

Forbes has developed a list of the “Ten Fastest Dying Cities”. Factors considered include unemployment rates and economic growth. Ohio is the most unfortunate with four cities in the top ten. Cities are dying to get on this list…sorry, I could not help myself. Here is the ten cities on the forbes list:

Canton, Ohio

Youngstown, Ohio

Flint, Michigan

Scranton, PA

Dayton, OH

Cleveland, OH

Springfield, MA

Buffalo, NY

Detroit, MI

Charleston, WV

The full story and slide show can be viewed here.

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America's Top Ten Hard Drinking Cities

Ten Fastest Dying Cities