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Local availability of alcohol sales is not a priority for me personally, but typically good quality restaurants do not operate where such restrictions are in place. Alcohol sales generate a lot of revenue and I'd prefer that the location where I reside does not miss out. Can anyone identify a specific "dry" jurisdiction that is an especially desirable, high amenity place to live?
Local availability of alcohol sales is not a priority for me personally, but typically good quality restaurants do not operate where such restrictions are in place. Alcohol sales generate a lot of revenue and I'd prefer that the location where I reside does not miss out. Can anyone identify a specific "dry" jurisdiction that is an especially desirable, high amenity place to live?
Bars/Microbreweries/Wineries tend to be crown pieces to a successful and well off city/town. I don't think a town can do quite well with none of those around, at least to any large extent. Smaller, quieter suburbs can do with being dry, but standalone cities will have a much, much harder time surviving with those kinds of restrictions/laws.
Nope, even though the suburb I live in is semi-dry already (extremely strict liquor laws; can't be sold past 10 pm which makes the idea of opening up a bar here pretty much impossible), and has a history of being anti-alcohol. Of course if you live in the metro of an even semi-large city, odds are you can just go one or two towns over to a non-dry town and stock up/drink there. But if we're talking a standalone city where you'd have to drive miles and miles just to get to a town with alcohol, hell no I would not live there. Not only because I do enjoy drinking, but also because I'm against those kinds of strict laws in general (including some areas that would surely spark a fiery debate with people). I see it as a way of taking away personal freedoms.
BTW when I first read the question, I also thought you meant dry as in not a humid climate, like Arizona. lol
If close to the county line then why not???? Even if Orange Beach, Alabama was still dry (hasn't been for a long time now), Florabama is still right there......
Even though I don't drink and dislike alcohol culture as a whole, I still voted no. I like freedom. I wouldn't want to live and contribute to a local culture that felt it was okay to tell adult humans what they can do with their bodies.
I have my nightly beer, cocktail, or glass of wine with dinner. As in one a day. On the weekend, I might have two if I'm feeling frisky, at a party, or watching a game on TV. So while I'm not exactly centering my life around drinking, its moderate enjoyment is something I participate in. Excessive drinking hurts one's health. Moderate drinking does not.
To me, the entire notion of a dry county is absurd for a simple reason: It is one group of people using the power of government to ram their particular religious beliefs down the throats of others. So, in that sense, I wouldn't live in such a place not because of a lack of availability of alcohol. Instead, I wouldn't live there because it's allowed the bluenoses to tell everyone else how to live.
Last edited by MinivanDriver; 06-02-2019 at 09:22 AM..
Strict liquor laws usually go hand-in-hand with a politically strong and dominant religious group. Liquor is just the tip of the iceberg on how many other "morality" issues that they want to impose on other people.
And human nature being what it is, "morality" and hypocrisy also often go hand-in-hand. My Dry County experience in the Dallas area has been you can order a drink only as a member of a private club, but anyone can join the club for the price of a beer, and your first beer is free.
Strict liquor laws usually go hand-in-hand with a politically strong and dominant religious group. Liquor is just the tip of the iceberg on how many other "morality" issues that they want to impose on other people.
And human nature being what it is, "morality" and hypocrisy also often go hand-in-hand. My Dry County experience in the Dallas area has been you can order a drink only as a member of a private club, but anyone can join the club for the price of a beer, and your first beer is free.
I live in DFW and know plenty of places to buy liquor, in Dallas and to its north. Based on the comments in the thread, I'm start to think maybe these places are illegally selling hard liquor, since everyone else in the thread seems to have trouble getting any around Dallas.
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