Found this interesting:
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/02/155989...up?ft=1&f=1001
I didn't realize New York was so far ahead of LA in terms of population. Wonder how much of each metro area they counted.
Also, stand proud, Milwaukee. Still highest bars-per-capita. Pittsburgh is awful close, though.
Those population numbers are based on the fairly simple "incorporated places" definition used by the US census. Its simply the number of people who live in the official borders of the primary city. A more realistic look for the larger areas is the "Combined Statistical Area" or CSA, which tells you how many people live in the area around the city, though sometimes those stretch farther then makes logical sense. Those numbers are here for 2010.
Interesting stuff. I'm shocked that my town of Lincoln, Ne only ranked #3 on parkland per person. We have an absurd amount of the stuff as a huge swath of lowland running through the whole of the city is very vulnerable to flooding. Rather than trying to expensively combat the problem somehow we just tacked up signs and called it all parks. Nobody cares if parks flood four times a year.
Yeah, as a city, NYC beats LA handily. Now, if you took the population of LA county, I believe it'd be a different story.
LOVE that San Diego has the most DUIs. Hahahaha
Oh, and how does one count "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana" as one entity? That's frakking HUGE.
NYC has more Starbucks than Seattle?
It's funny they're only 20% ahead with like 800% the population. Must be all those Dunkin' Donuts.
Austin must have fallen below the 'city' cutoff:
Austin boasts the highest ratio of bars per capita in the United States
Which is better than Starbucks anyway.Originally Posted by Jason McCullough
SD, LA, and SF all make the top five in DUIs. This helps explain a lot of my encounters with cars sporting CA license plates. I'm guessing Phoenix isn't too much farther down the list.
Yeah they really upped the quality of their coffee in the last 5 years. And it's directly in response to the ubiquity of Starbucks. Tastes better and cheaper, what's not to like?
Plus they have amazing donuts. Win win.
Dunkin' Donuts has made an amazing comeback, they were almost dead and buried by Krispy Kreme (last decades darling), rebranded themselves as an awesome coffee place that happened to have good donuts, and now they are popping up all over the place. They were completely gone from my city (Chattanooga, TN) only a few years ago, now each new store they open is getting swamped with customers. Starbucks is still the go to place for many around here, but DD is trendy. Their effort to change their image sort of reminds me of how Target became "cool" in America several years ago.
Last edited by robsam; 07-03-2012 at 05:04 PM.
Apple crumb.
Funnily enough, Dunkin Donuts's donuts in NYC are terrible, because we banned trans-fats, and that's what makes them so good.
Also, they aren't very good in general compared to west coast donuts. Your random neighborhood local donut shop in LA is better than anything Dunkin makes.
Also, coming out of the Boston area, it's mind blowing to think that anybody could ever think DD was anything special. They're freaking everywhere.
Doesn't the Most Foreign Tourists category seem absurdly low? Only 8500 foreign tourists in all of 2010? Even if you assume a strict definition of non-North American visitors I would think NYC would attract more than that in a year and Las Vegas is not even on the list.
Yeah, that seemed super weird to me. I mean, maybe if you only count families as a single person, discount exchange students, North Americans, and people with dual citizenship. . . and people who claim to be there on business. . . no, still seems super low, lol.
If you've never been to Milwaukee, you have no idea.
One of the coolest bars in the city is The Safe House, a theme place that has multiple levels, secret areas, secret doors, and the entryway is much like a speak-easy.
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