Nation's Drunkest Cities

Red57Bird · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 316 City: Raleigh

How does your city rank?

http://men.webmd.com/features/drunkest-cities

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Raliegh-Durham, NC #1. No wonder my sister lives there.

Nashville #38. Bout right.

Rhawn · Posted: May 16, 2008 5:27 am Post subject:

#9 BABY, YEAH!

Red57Bird · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 316 City: Raleigh

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Hmmmm, even more reason why she lives there. Damn hippies. Laughing

paus21 · Posted: May 16, 2008 5:43 am Post subject:

#97? Then why do I feel so hungover right now??

Ohhhh.....read it wrong. Makes more sense now.

Craig-R · Guest

#2!!!! god knows how though... i really don't get it

supraboarder03 · Newbie Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 29 City: omaha

Paus, we are on a different scale than Omaha. Woodcliff should be at the top of the list! Congrats on the hangover......get ready for next weekend.

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Craig-R, drugs don't count as being drunk.

Skwake · Posted: May 16, 2008 6:36 am Post subject:

Im pretty sure wherever I am in the next few months will go up a notch briefly Laughing

EMP912 · Addict Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 500 City: Greenback

I wonder if altitude has anything to do it? Doesn't that factor into the effects of alcohol on the system?

That could be reason why Colorado and especially Denver ranked so poorly.

K-dub · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 14760

atolman · Posted: May 16, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

95 ...and I'm farkin hungover this morning. Spurs won so we had to celebrate Razz

oshensurfer · Posted: May 16, 2008 7:40 am Post subject:

94 Austin, TX F

Red57Bird · Soul Rider Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 316 City: Raleigh

Sandman4432 · Criminal Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 70 City: Tampa

# 49 baby. Go Tampa...... (*gag me*)

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

YAY for no place in CT to be listed lol

Swass · Guest

The ranking seems a bit counter-intuitive. Denver is dubbed "Most Dangerously Drunk," but we're ranked 100th.

In any case: WOOHOO! WE'RE NUMBER 1!

jjaszkow · Posted: May 16, 2008 8:53 am Post subject:

#96. I blame winters.

churchy · Posted: May 16, 2008 8:58 am Post subject:

Craig-R · Guest

NYC is in the top ten least drunk because of the public transportation system, if every city had subways, nobody would ever drive drunk

joebananas · Posted: May 16, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

3

Our bars are open until 4 AM and there is nothing else to do.

How late are other cities bars open? I know Milwaukee used to be 1 AM when I lived there. Charlotte was 1 AM as well.

nmballa · Posted: May 16, 2008 9:26 am Post subject:

joebananas, milwaukee is 230 on the weekends now. 2 on weekdays.

5280HighButter · Soul Rider Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 258 City: Littleton

Sounds about right to me, go Denver. Time for a drink...

eeven73 · Posted: May 16, 2008 10:46 am Post subject:

Madison Wisconsin FTW

ttuclint · Addict Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 984 City: Lubbock, TX

100 = most drunk

1 = least drunk

goofyboy · Posted: May 16, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

Austin - HOOK'Em!!
Houston - not far behind. Full of Texas Exes..

ssrgeoff · Addict Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 582 City: So Cal

Salt Lake City..?

Sportster4Tec · Posted: May 17, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

How is New Orleans not listed?

Chales · Guest

Because the list sucks. I mean how can you go from very worst to very best with just 100 cities? Just pick them out of a hat and give it a rank? wtf

I agree with whoever said it is about the winters too... A good list would have 19 out of the top 20 a bunch of midwestern state cities, Alaska cities, Colorodo cities, etc.

EDIT: I did some digging around and found some comments/complaints from a separate site about the list...

JasonOT wrote:
Could this article be any more poorly written, or have used any worse methodology? Let's go down the list of problems:

1. "The Sobbering Truth" Honestly, how much do you pay your editors? There's one 'b' in sobering.

2. "How Our Formula Works" Your explanation and what actually shows up on the map don't jive. "So a city ranked No. 92 for DUI has fewer drunk-driving arrests each year than a city ranked No. 3." Sorry, no it doesn't. According to the map, lower is better across the board.

3. Factoring in DUI arrests without any other tertiary data. Boston ranks 10th in DUI arrests, Las Vegas 98th. Despite how your formula "works" the map would indicate this means Boston has considerably fewer arrests than Vegas. But what does that even mean? Without additional data, it's bad science to draw any conclusions. It could just as easily mean the police in Vegas are simply more vigilant than police in Boston, as it could mean there are more drunk drivers in Vegas than in Boston.

4. Though not specifically stated, given the awful methodology everywhere else, there's a good chance your "percentage of fatal accidents involving intoxicated motorists" from the USDOT is more likely the number of alcohol related deaths, which also includes intoxicated pedestrians killed by sober motorists. Not really here nor there, and it does still factor into how drunk a city is, but it is just another point in how poorly researched and written this article is.

5. The validity of anything MADD has to say should be taken with a large grain of salt. Candy Lightner, the founder of MADD, left the organization because it had become a "neo-prohibitionist" organization, rather than one actually concerned with saving lives. The mere fact that Boston is ranked 98 in laws, yet 10 and 28 in DUI and deaths respectively is rather telling of MADD's poor interpretation of the strength of laws. Or take the inverse, of Raleigh, NC being ranked among the best in law (13) yet rather poorly in DUI (80) and deaths (50). If the purported strength of laws were legitimate, there would be a correlation to at least the number of deaths, if not also the number of DUI arrests.

EDIT #2: Did some more digging, now these lists actually make a little more sense:

http://www.city-data.com/top2/z52.html

http://www.cartoonbarry.com/2006/08/americas_most_drunk_cities.html

nmballa · Posted: May 17, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject:

Oh stuff. That second list puts milwaukee at number one. Dosn't supprise me.

PimpinD2 · Posted: May 17, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

Miami, FL #2.... geez. I wonder what Miami would be ranked if it was "Most Snow".

LFADAM · Posted: May 17, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject:

haugy, Ill be the d!ck of the hour (some people around here are actually adamant about this Laughing

) but Raleigh=/=Durham. Raleigh was #24, Durham was #1. Seems like the whole country thinks its one city but I live in Raleigh and it takes a solid 30-45 mins to get to Durham and there is a clear difference. Whatever, our airport is called Raleigh-Durham (its between the two) so I guess thats the reason.

But yea that list seems almost as ridiculous as the Rolling Stones Top 100 guitarists list.