"Drunkest" metro-areas within the drunkest states.

[tinselwolverine]

There is a small town out the Thumb area boonies of Michigan that seems, for a tiny little burg, to have a LOT of drug and alcohol treatment centers, and a fairly large AA community.

 

[tinselwolverine]

There is a small town out the Thumb area boonies of Michigan that seems, for a tiny little burg, to have a LOT of drug and alcohol treatment centers, and a fairly large AA community.

In conjunction with the CDC, the Michigan the county of Huron, centered in Bad Axe, offer treatment for a variety of medical conditions, including substance abuse addiction.

So if you find yourself thinking you're drinking too much and desire treatment when you're in Bad Axe Michigan, simply get over to the county health facility on Van Dyke.

They accept Medicaid and also charge fees on a sliding scale.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I wonder where Houghton-Hancock would rank if considered a 'metro area'. Drinking is about all there is to do.

I used to fish up at Houghton..

 

[tinselwolverine]

I used to fish up at Houghton..

Houston Lake or Houghton?

They are different places.

Are used to fish quite often on Houghton Lake.

Snowmobile too.

Definitely banged back a few pops.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Houston Lake or Houghton?

They are different places.

Are used to fish quite often on Houghton Lake.

Snowmobile too.

Definitely banged back a few pops.

Both actually. My first university I went to was Northern Michigan University.. And I knew some students that lived in Houghton. I gutted my first fish there..

Houghton Lake was a few years later.. 10 or 12 of us would rent a place for a week (bunch of years) . It was a blast. We would canoe up there.. I don't drink but the rest did so it was a challenge. Quite fun.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Houghton is a hike. As a kid went with the family to see relatives in Escanaba a couple times and took a side trip to Marquette.

The UP is the boonies, eh.

Family has a cabin up in Prudenville, I think the south east side of Houghton Lake.

We had a big pontoon docked nearby - A lot of fun fishing excursions.

Once we were all teenagers, there was no drinking age at the cabin.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Houghton is a hike. As a kid went with the family to see relatives in Escanaba a couple times and took a side trip to Marquette.

The UP is the boonies, eh.

Family has a cabin up in Prudenville, I think the south east side of Houghton Lake.

We had a big pontoon docked nearby - A lot of fun fishing excursions.

Once we were all teenagers, there was no drinking age at the cabin.

Some parts boonies, yes. But so many things to do. Fishing, great lakes, mountains (tip : don't wait until nighttime to come down lol). And the jumping out of a 2nd or 3rd floor windows with the snow drifts. And if you like football nothing beats snow football at midnight. Oh, and big time wrestling night.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Some parts boonies, yes. But so many things to do. Fishing, great lakes, mountains (tip : don't wait until nighttime to come down lol). And the jumping out of a 2nd or 3rd floor windows with the snow drifts. And if you like football nothing beats snow football at midnight. Oh, and big time wrestling night.

Sort of tongue in cheek; the LP is fairly boonies too.

But most of the surface of the world's land is boonies, really.

Take where I live and you live for example.

Most of the space between Los Angeles and San Francisco is boonies, either up the coast or through the Central Valley.

There's a pretty big stretch of boonies down towards San Diego from LA, it gets pretty boonie going out toward Palm Springs, and past there, it's all boonies out to your town.

Between you and Tuscon, boonies and cactus, and north and south of you, boonies all the way to Salt Lake City and the Mexican border and beyond.

Getting west from the metropolitan sprawl of the eastern seaboard it's boonies all the way to Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville, Memphis and Atlanta; and in between is of course flyover country - nothing but boonies for the most part - as far as the eye can see.

Same with the rest of the world.

I guess the majority of the earth's surface water, and the vast majority of the land's surface could be called the boonies.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Sort of tongue in cheek; the LP is fairly boonies too.

But most of the surface of the world's land is boonies, really.

Take where I live and you live for example.

Most of the space between Los Angeles and San Francisco is boonies, either up the coast or through the Central Valley.

There's a pretty big stretch of boonies down towards San Diego from LA, it gets pretty boonie going out toward Palm Springs, and past there, it's all boonies out to your town.

Between you and Tuscon, boonies and cactus, and north and south of you, boonies all the way to Salt Lake City and the Mexican border and beyond.

Getting west from the metropolitan sprawl of the eastern seaboard it's boonies all the way to Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville, Memphis and Atlanta; and in between is of course flyover country - nothing but boonies for the most part - as far as the eye can see.

Same with the rest of the world.

I guess the majority of the earth's surface water, and the vast majority of the land's surface could be called the boonies.

I definitely in the boonies. 30 minutes from Phoenix and 2 hours from Tucson. But it's quaint.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Population Density Map

As we can see from this map, the world is overwhelmingly mostly boonies.

 

[UMRules06]

Population Density Map

As we can see from this map, the world is overwhelmingly mostly boonies.

Interesting. India, China, and the island of Java sure do stick out like sore thumbs on that map don't they?

 

[Gulo Blue]

Population Density Map

As we can see from this map, the world is overwhelmingly mostly boonies.

Which is a good thing. Can't imagine it any other way. Total land use for agriculture over the course of human history looks a lot like a global population chart if you just eyeball it, but the number of acres used per person has been plummeting in the last couple generations so that the population boom can continue even though we're not expanding farmland very rapidly anymore.

 

[Michchamp]

Which is a good thing. Can't imagine it any other way. Total land use for agriculture over the course of human history looks a lot like a global population chart if you just eyeball it, but the number of acres used per person has been plummeting in the last couple generations so that the population boom can continue even though we're not expanding farmland very rapidly anymore.

except we're exhausting the soil and burning more fossil fuels, so making the world uninhabitable by other means.

 

[Spartanmack]

Denver got named something like this a few years back. Basically a combo of single 20-somethings flocking here and drinking craft beer while growing beards, throwing axes and slack lining.

maybe they're no longer on the list or not as high (no pun intended) because of the impact of recreational weed.

 

[Spartanmack]

Yeah, cause E. Lansing is the only city in the entire state of Mi with a college...

what a dumb ass

it's the city with the largest college and thus the largest population of students. Didn't think about that, did you dumb ass.

 

[Spartanmack]

Population Density Map

As we can see from this map, the world is overwhelmingly mostly boonies.

except India - that's gonna be solid city from top to bottom one day...

 

[Gulo Blue]

it's the city with the largest college and thus the largest population of students. Didn't think about that, did you dumb ass.

Divided by the population of the metro area. Maybe MSU is biggest relative to their metro, I don't know, maybe Western. But either way, I doubt OSU is the biggest university in Ohio relative to their metro population.

 

[hungry]

it's the city with the largest college and thus the largest population of students. Didn't think about that, did you dumb ass.

I'd be curious to know who has the most amount of commuter students in the state

MSU is not a college

"Drunkest city: Lansing-East Lansing
> MSA adults binge or heavy drinking: 21.9% (top 10%)
> State adults binge or heavy drinking: 20.0% (10th highest)
> Alcohol-related driving deaths: 27.8%

According to a nationwide survey by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse, nearly 3-in-5 college students aged 18 to 22 drink alcohol on a monthly basis. In the Lansing-East Lansing metro area ? home to Michigan State University, the largest school in Michigan and the ninth largest in the country ? some 14.2% of residents are enrolled in college, more than double the 7.0% share nationwide. An estimated 21.9% of adults in the Lansing-East Lansing metro area drink excessively, more than the comparable 20.0% statewide share and more than any other metro in Michigan."

They are crediting the area as "Lansing- East Lansing." MSU is not in Lansing. As we know, they are 2 different cities, unless you want to throw in Dewitt, Holt, and Grand Ledge, because they are all about as Lansing as E. Lansing is in all but name.

MSU isn't just the largest university. It is, also, the largest collection of drunks by a very large margin. Says something about the type of people that attend that university.

 

[hungry]

Plus it's not broken down by just numbers, it's broken down by a % of the population.

 

[Spartanmack]

Plus it's not broken down by just numbers, it's broken down by a % of the population.

you're so dumb. if it's by % of population what impact do you think having the largest % of students in the overall population is going to have on that result? I mean you yourself pointed out the % of residents enrolled in college in the Lansing-East Lansing area is double the national average. you just can't help yourself can you?