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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