The 5 most expensive cities to buy beer (Surprise, Vegas is cheap?)

Sure, it costs an army’s ransom to buy a drink on the Vegas Strip, but if you just buy beer at the store, Vegas prices are among the cheapest in America.

Vegas is the eighth-cheapest city to buy beer in the U.S., according to NerdWallet.com, a website I have never heard of, so I view this news with caution, however to be honest, these days, have any of us heard of 85 percent of the sites that make a splash during Our Skeptically Gullible Era of Everything?

Oh. So here are the Top 5 most-expensive cities to buy a six pack of Heineken (wow, who drinks Heineken?), but not just based on pure price, but also weighted against local income levels:

1. Chicago

2. Detroit

3. Memphis

4. Miami

5. Nashville

As for the least-expensive:

1. Washington, D.C.

2. San Francisco

3. Kansas City

4. Denver

5. Omaha

6. Virginia Beach

7. Columbus, Ohio

8. Las Vegas

9. Colorado Springs

10. Raleigh, N.C.

Check out the whole list and methodology of this NerdWallet deal here.

And then feel free to write a complaint about how you have spent $15 on a bar beer in Vegas and San Francisco. I once bought a bottle of water in a nightclub here that cost me $12. No, the Review-Journal does not give me a per diem or an expense account. How dare you suggest such a thing.