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Chicago is the fifth-hardest drinking city in America, according to a new analysis by Forbes, who's really feeling the ranking stories this week. We drink less than Austin, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Providence. Providence?
The report is based on people's responses to three questions: whether they had at least one drink of alcohol within the past 30 days; whether men had more than two drinks per day or women one drink per day; and whether they had five or more drinks on one occasion. (The five-drinks question counted twice.) Forbes used information from the CDC's 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, which found that 62 percent of Chicagoans had had at least one drink in the last month, 5.4 percent were regular drinkers, and 20.4 percent had consumed five or more drinks on one occasion. Cheers. [Forbes, photo by sictransitgloria]
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HAvign visited friends in college many times in Providence, trust me that they drink hard. Not to mention if you lived in Providence wouldnt you drink hard?
there has to be a better way to find out hard-drinking cities. the questions seem far too vague and non-scientific.
two things: san francisco is spelled wrong and based on those statistics, me and pretty much everyone i know seem to be major alcoholics. i would have guessed all of those stats to be much higher
come on chicago! step it up! we can be #1
Wait, we're only fifth? Obviously they didn't factor the consumption of the Chicagoist staff into their final numbers.
Chicago was sixth the last time Forbes did this list. You have to give propers to Austin for making the big leap from fifth to first.
'Course, if I lived in the state George W. Bush called home, I'd want to drink heavy, too.
Another reason I love calling Chicago home. But #5....that's disappointing guys.