Raleigh: The Sober City
Less Than 0.5% Alcohol By Volume
Another Top 5 list, this time the mostest with the soberest. Raleigh tied Fayetteville, NC for fifth on USNews and World Report’s Most Sober Metro Areas list with 97.2% of the population not drinking heavily. With all the new bars and breweries opening in our area, this must mean we know how, as a city, to drink responsibly. But, whoever performed this survey obviously doesn’t frequent Raleigh Downtown Live rock-a-thons or Jackpot!
Three towns in North Carolina finished in the top 5 and the rest of the top 10 were mostly Midwest states where there’s lots of oats and barley.
In a related case of events, three NC cities ranked on the Smokiest and one on the most smoke-free. Man, people in Hickory smoke a lot and don’t drink very much. Not sure of an accurate explanation, but that’s an odd statistic.
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Rick
06/16 12:12 AM
To be fair, Jackpot is the best bar in Raleigh.
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drew
06/16 12:58 AM
Yeah, if you’re a hipster doofus.
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adam!!
06/16 01:34 AM
said it before, i’ll say it again. that place needs to be bulldozed. no where else in raleigh can you be vomiting heavily in a corner and no one notice nor care (for days).
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RaleighMAC
06/16 01:35 AM
OK, *really* US News??? Really??? This is the kind of reporting you’ve resorted to? As a fan of good journalism, I should read the actual US News article to see how they came up with such statistics. However, given the ridiculousness of the whole thing, I refuse.
I just don’t understand how any study could truly capture these percentages. It truly makes no real sense…
Then again, I could read the actual article…
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smitty
06/16 01:41 AM
Bible don’t say nothin’ about smokin’.
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RaleighMAC
06/16 01:42 AM
PS: where does one get the “sobriety is no accident” beer cup??? It looks like a ball park, from the blurred background. Surely it’s not at the Durham Bulls stadium…
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Harry Seaward
06/16 07:54 AM
there are way too many fans for that to be a minor league park. prob just a stock photo.
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kg
06/16 09:51 AM
maybe it is due to all of the cops downtown.
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richardfoc
06/16 11:35 AM
The cup is from Comerica Park in Detroit.
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MMI
06/16 04:00 PM
Bingo. If you read the cup backwards, you can see the Comerica Park logo on the reverse.
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MMI
06/16 04:01 PM
Oh, and WOOHOO CHARLESTON!!
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Logan
06/16 04:28 PM
RaleighMAC, this story is posted under “Entertainment.” Geesh… lighten up why don’t cha? I must say I’m constantly amazed at how incensed some New Raleigh responders get over the most silly things.
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ray cooter
06/19 11:20 PM
i can’t believe just how frustrated i am right now, i wanna wake up and push knobs and do stuff i ain’t spending no time doing nothing
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mgd
06/24 03:39 AM
Isnt Hickory a dry county?
And how do they count the sale of alcohol on military bases?
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