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I am not a heavy drinker, but one thing I noticed having moved around to a few places is how much everyone in my age group drinks(30's to mid 40's). I have gott

I am not a heavy drinker, but one thing I noticed having moved around to a few places is how much everyone in my age group drinks(30's to mid 40's). I have gotten to know many a neighbor and they are all working professionals like me and I am just shocked that having 8-10 drinks a night seems like it comes standard for a Friday/Saturday night. I thought that it was just one location, but I moved twice in the past 2 years and at each location the same behavior. It seems really unhealthy and is everywhere(CA North and South) and Colorado) which is worrisome.

hervature 5y ago
I know you said they are neighbors and I assume you live in an apartment complex because you have met "many a neighbor". But how much of this is selection bias? You meet social people, social people drink because drinking helps socializing.
- subsubzero 5y ago
  Strangely its not apartments, these are houses, the people in the neighborhood are usually in sales, and other professional areas, sometimes in tech but not engineers.
rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago
That's definitely just a certain personality type, I think. 8-10 drinks is pretty aggressive for a random Friday night among grown-ass adults - that's 2 full bottles of wine. At best, you won't be able to drive home and you'll feel beat up in the morning. How long are they staying out? I'm in my thirties, and a drink every 45 minutes seems pretty standard among my peers that don't have kids and still go out. In college we'd swing for the fences, but eventually everyone (well, everyone without an actual drinking problem) figured out that keeping a nice social buzz is a more pleasant way to spend an evening with friends.
- soperj 5y ago
  I worked with people who would finish off a 24 pack on a random Monday. It was lights out when they actually went out.
- deleted 5y ago
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PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Heavy alcohol drinkers tend to cluster with each other. This leads to a self-reinforcing cycle wherein they see their peers consuming a lot of alcohol and assume that means it's normal and fine. Likewise, non-drinkers tend to cluster with each other because after a while it's just not fun to hang out with people consuming copious amounts of alcohol all of the time while their health slowly declines. I had to stop inviting several friends to certain activities because they wanted to make everything revolve around consuming alcohol. It gets old. Anecdotes aside, the statistics just don't support 10 drinks/night as being average. That's top 10-20% behavior.
- tolbish 5y ago
  Apparently 18% of Americans are binge drinkers: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/americans-are-drinking-more-lot-more-n347126 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/americans-are-dri...
  - the_doctah 5y ago
    You've posted the same thing multiple times in this thread.
    - tolbish 5y ago
      Yes, as did the person I responded to.

hervature 5y ago

I know you said they are neighbors and I assume you live in an apartment complex because you have met "many a neighbor". But how much of this is selection bias? You meet social people, social people drink because drinking helps socializing.

subsubzero 5y ago
Strangely its not apartments, these are houses, the people in the neighborhood are usually in sales, and other professional areas, sometimes in tech but not engineers.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago

That's definitely just a certain personality type, I think. 8-10 drinks is pretty aggressive for a random Friday night among grown-ass adults - that's 2 full bottles of wine. At best, you won't be able to drive home and you'll feel beat up in the morning. How long are they staying out? I'm in my thirties, and a drink every 45 minutes seems pretty standard among my peers that don't have kids and still go out. In college we'd swing for the fences, but eventually everyone (well, everyone without an actual drinking problem) figured out that keeping a nice social buzz is a more pleasant way to spend an evening with friends.

soperj 5y ago
I worked with people who would finish off a 24 pack on a random Monday. It was lights out when they actually went out.
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PragmaticPulp 5y ago

Heavy alcohol drinkers tend to cluster with each other. This leads to a self-reinforcing cycle wherein they see their peers consuming a lot of alcohol and assume that means it's normal and fine. Likewise, non-drinkers tend to cluster with each other because after a while it's just not fun to hang out with people consuming copious amounts of alcohol all of the time while their health slowly declines. I had to stop inviting several friends to certain activities because they wanted to make everything revolve around consuming alcohol. It gets old. Anecdotes aside, the statistics just don't support 10 drinks/night as being average. That's top 10-20% behavior.

tolbish 5y ago
Apparently 18% of Americans are binge drinkers: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/americans-are-drinking-more-lot-more-n347126 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/americans-are-dri...
- the_doctah 5y ago
  You've posted the same thing multiple times in this thread.
  - tolbish 5y ago
    Yes, as did the person I responded to.