Virginia Beach region drinks more than most, magazine says

You might want to put one of those drinks down so you can catch your liver when it shrivels up and you pee it out. Just kidding. I bet you run like 4 miles a day to compensate for all that hard drinking.
Hiccup guy, you totally made me chuckle inside.
Speaking of the Navy, I was in the Navy, and it's so ironic that they are ALWAYS talking about alcohol related incidents and trying to prevent sailors from drinking. We even had safety-standdowns about it where EMT guys would come in and show us horrific pictures of accidents involving alcohol and go through the nitty-gritty of what happens when you arrive at the hospital...not pretty. This past year 4 sailors on the Carl Vinson went to a safety standdown and promptly went out drinking and one of them died,he was my friend and it made me deeply frustrated and angry. One is going to be in jail for a long time and critical condition for the other two or somethin

I need a drink every time I attend a city council meeting.

The Internet Depressed show up again with the never ending struggle to claim everything sucks. Really shows an amazing naivete about how most of the world lives.

With lower than national average incomes, higher than average costs of living and housing, a declining local population reported by the US census, 2 Beach Elementary schools considered for closing due to a LACK of young students that age(indicating young families can't afford it here), and one of the highest food taxes in the NATION(Higher than New York)(all this stated in previous Pilot articles)......

NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE DRINKING MORE HERE!

Do us all a favor. Vote in John Moss for Mayor of Va. Beach.

Seems like a perfectly acceptable way to deal with living in VB.

...could it be because the fine folks of Va Beach are full of WHINE????
HICCUP!!!!

Any time Forbes or CNNMoney.com or whatever ratings agency rates something like cities, they use MSAs. This is nothing new at all, and it is what most professionals use when looking at demographics. Don't trust what I say? Talk to any bank that has mergers and acquisitions, real estate developers, be they private or public, etc. There is no grand conspiracy here.

If this area has such a large drinking problem, then how come we're not hearing more about DUIs resulting in deaths in the Hampton Roads?

So the pilot will report that this area is indeed known as Virginia Beach, but only when it is in a negative light. Every other article published they reportedly pretend we all live in the middle of the bay known as hampton roads.

Again, the pilot shows it has a slanted and biased editorial view.

We just moved to VB from another HR city (I love VB!). I only drank maybe once or twice in the last 12 years in that other city. Since moving to VB a few month ago, I drink atleast once or twice a week.....it helps me relax when I hear those sonic booms and pay my very high rent bill (the cost of convenience!).

Whats Meyera O. have to do with alcohol consumption and VB being a tourist trap? Nobody puts a gun to my head when taking a drink.... I'll have a bubble Durbin...

after reading the comments in the marijuana article and then reading the comments in this article, im struggling to figure out why people haven't made this article 10 pages full of comments talking down on "spirits" like they did the herb...this sure is a backwards society we live in....

The state is proud of VABeach. Look at all that tax revenue.

Salute!

Hey! I'll drink to that!!!

Psssst!

Somebody pass me my scotch.......TODAY!

I thought it was Hampton Roads now? It used to be Tidewater, or Norfolk or Virginia Beach. What about 7 Cities, or America's First Region? I guess Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area is where we offical live?!!? Now I need a drink!

Did people like phrog even notice that the stats were taken from the region not just VB? So this would include Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, etc. But I can say this: I have lived in other places and have to admit that VB is chock full of the whiniest never happy complainers that I have ever come across. That can drive a same person to drink. Har Har. But I hear high tax this, don't like that, Oberndorff this, noisy that. The services we receive for the taxes we pay are superb compared to any other city in the region and in any other region I have lived in. And when I speak of the whiners it is not the majority of citizens thankfully, it is just a very vocal minority who really need to just move if it is that bad.

A few weeks ago, the Pilot printed a story indicating that teenage pregancy was higher in Tidewater than other areas in Virginia. Perhaps the two stories are related.

You were joking about me looking down on drinkers, right? Never said anything of the sort. I'm in the Navy, for heaven's sakes. Does alcohol use make someone paranoid (joking!)? Cheers, MGM

WOW!! Now that is something to be proud of. Mayor Oberndorf needs to have the Forbes article framed in gold and proudly displayed in city hall. What a joke.
Virginia Beach is nothing. Virginia Beach will always be nothing but a third rate tourist trap.

Will find a way to tax the drink.

Finally Va Beach receives a Top "Something" i can actually believe. Way to go LOL

Wow, who would've thought that a resort area would have a higher rate of alcohol consumption? Was the poll conducted by the Obvious Foundation? One drink in the last 30 days, what kind of statistic is that? I'm surprised that number isn't higher, the other 41.9% of the area must have their mouths sewn shut or are just plain liars. How could even two drinks a day be important statistically, especially when doctors actually recommend that amount of alcohol to be consumed daily for health benefits?

...Dear Mrs Sir, madame...hiccup!..we, the finest peoples of beach. in Virginia...hiccup...have no problem being the drinkiest...hiccup... aftersmall...we are a family destination...hiccup...and....um...what was I saying???

dont look down at us two fisted hard core drinkers. with distilled spirts and tobacco being the first things to be get additional tax added when funds are needed you should realize that i help fund more of the so called needed extras that the good ol boy network deem necessary.

that the beach is a tourist destination with tourist doing most of the drinking ?? how bizarre

More than 40% of us don't drink at all, from the looks of this (if we haven't had even one drink in the last month). Prohibition did not work, but self-prohibition does for those who choose to make that choice. I do it because I find many things to accomplish in this world that are only slowed down by the use of mind-altering substances. Cheers, MGM

basically, virginia beach drives people to drink...haha