America's Drunkest Cities
 

Per Forbes.com

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/...s&boxes=custom

1. Milwaukee
2. Minneapolis - St. Paul
3. Columbus
4. Boston
5. Austin
6. Chicago
7. Cleveland
8. Pittsburgh
9. Philadelphia/Providence (tie)

11. St. Louis
12. San Antonio/Seattle (tie)
14. Las Vegas
15. Denver/Boulder
16. Cincinnati/Kansas City (tie)
18. Houston
19. Portland
20. San Francisco/Oakland Washington,DC/Baltimore (tie)
22. Phoenix
23. Los Angeles
24. New Orleans/Tampa (tie)
26. Norfolk
27. Dallas/Fort Worth
28. Atlanta/Detroit
30. Indianapolis
31. Orlando
32. New York
33. Miami
34. Charlotte
35. Nashville

(numbers missing reflect the tied cities)

So basically college towns = drunkest cities...

I'm suprised Vegas wasnt #1.

Despite rumors to the contary, I've only lived in five of them.

Only two of those are in the top five.

Denver, you disappoint me. All the good beer and the best you can manage is 15?

Providence, represent!

I really wouldn't consider Milwaukee and Cleveland "college towns," in the same way that I would Austin. Hell, Austin and Columbus are the only real college towns--the rest are largish cities that happen to have schools there.

They need to redo that study not on how much beer and liquor is sold, but rather which colleges have students with the highest tolerances...

Cleveland is definitely not a college town, lol. I was shocked to see it ranked that high but then again I am not.:o

Austin is more than just THE University of Texas (although it's the best school around). There's also hippies & politicians here as well. I definitely would not consider Austin, Texas solely a college town granted there's more than just UTexas there.

This isn't a 'college town' survey, it's a 'town which drinks the most', and I've been to Milwaukee dozens of times and only remember coming home a few of those times. I guarantee, Milwaukee has earned this prize.

I go to UT and I really wouldn't consider it a college town at all.......more like a city that is badass for college students. I consider Tuscaloosa, Oxford, etc. etc. as college towns. Austin is a capitol city with 700,000 people living in it.

MAAANNN!!! You must be a really hardcore bada**!!!!!!

Well, I guess then that is even worse for your case then.

I've lived in both Columbus and Milwaukee.

I agree that Milwaukee isn't much of a college town. On the other hand, Columbus is the second largest city in Ohio and is pushing 2 Million people in the metro area. I think that what gives it the "college town" reputation is that Ohio State is so huge in and of itself.

In my mind, a real college town is one like Lincoln or Ann Arbor -- or, getting away from the huge schools, Athens, Ohio, Oxford, Boulder and places like that where the school and town really are important supporters of each other.

I KNOW MAN!!! Shit.....i wish I could drink as much as you.

Boston representing - of course there is a bar every 100 feet, so I'm not surprised. Now if the bars were open later than 2, it would be pushing the top spot...

My current town of residence would not make it though -there isn't a bar within the town limits. It's not a dry town (there are package stores), but for whatever reason, no bars.