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Cartographer Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities:
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Think a city is missing? We welcome your own additions in the comments below.
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May 10th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Omaha “The rent is cheap and I have friends who were friends with Conor Oberst” Nebraska
May 10th, 2011 at 11:11 am
No Chicago? WTF?
May 10th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Come up with your own for Chi-town, Rob. Additions welcomed!
May 10th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Pittsburgh “I’ll just buy this ultra-cheap Victorian with my student loan money and fix it up while I start my own web start-up” Pennsylvania
May 10th, 2011 at 11:24 am
Dayton “wearing flannel and John Deere hats unironically for decades. And the Deal sisters…” Ohio
May 10th, 2011 at 11:40 am
How about Atlanta? “Sweating balls and drinking heavily while holding down my day job at Turner and playing in a punk band at night”
May 10th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Atlanta: So what if you actually live OTP (outside of the I-285 perimeter) as a free-lance journalist? You can still crash on your friend’s couch in Cabbagetown after a Black Lips/Deerhunter concert in a PBR American Spirit haze.
May 10th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Nashville “the flat land is easier on my fixie” Tennessee
May 10th, 2011 at 11:45 am
@Jon Omaha’s great, but not because of that whiner Oberst.
May 10th, 2011 at 11:47 am
St. Petersburg – Riding my fixed gear to get taco bus and craft brews before hitting the Dali for that industrial fashion show.
May 10th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Chicago “I was the coolest kid in Madison” Illinois
May 10th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
@Mark yes, but every hipster friend I have there (I grew up in Omaha) has in some way related themselves to Oberst through friends.
May 10th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Eugene “I promise not to get into the drug scene” Oregon.
May 10th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I’m hung up on trying to figure out the difference between “habitable” and “inhabitable.”
But what would you expect from an Austin resident?
May 10th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
@Rob, Ack- you’re right! How DID I miss Chicago?
Keep up the suggestions, everyone. These are hilarious!
May 10th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Nashville “My cowboy hat and bumpkin beard are ironic. Or are they?” Tennessee
(Seriously, every time I go home (to Nashville), I’m ever more amused by the new crop of affectedly festooned 20-somethings. Nashville so wants to be Austin. It’s so cute how it tries.)
May 10th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I believe San Antonio, Texas should be included in your list.
May 10th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
“Baltimore: cool by proximity?” Proximity to what? The ocean?
How about “Baltimore: join your comrades in trying to sell home-made jewelry no one buys because they are trying to sell homemade jewelry no one buys.”
May 10th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Honolulu “If a hipster falls on the beach and no one can be bothered to hate it, does it make a frown?” Hawai’i.
May 10th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Providence “Nearly out of flash-bangs, fifty-eight minutes door to door from Cranston, where housing is newer than 1880 and cheaper than that, to Newton, MA., where the work was” Rhode Island.
May 10th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Chicago “Lots of bike lanes for riding my fixie to the new microbewery/gastropub that just opened” Illinois
May 10th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Fort Lauderdale “we’re not rich enough to be in either South Beach or Boca Raton” Florida?
May 10th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Fresno “I live in a racist & polluted city but the rent is hella cheap & if I repeat t myself that I am halfway between SF & LA & if I open/visit a craft boutique/Organic Bistro Truck/Bike everywhere it’ll make me feel cool” California
May 10th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
St Louis, a city I love but will try to dis…(does “dis” count as retro yet?) “twenty years behind politically, in the middle of absolutely nowhere except the turn of the 19th century, but great music, great food, and low rent” MO
May 10th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Buffalo “hey, at least it’s not Detroit’ New York
May 10th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Tallahassee “This must be like when they introduced the Pill for the first time” Florida
May 10th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Pittsburgh “holy shit is rent really that cheap i guess I can deal with the whiteness/i ride a fixie with no brakes in a city built on mountains SO BEAT THAT” Pennsylvania
May 10th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Los Angeles “Hoping that my tight jeans, scarf, and funny hat will distinguish me from the thousands of other hipsters here enough to get a show on cable” California
May 10th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Scha! Boise. Get with the program.
May 10th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Chicago “I meant to move to New York or San Francisco but I’m too broke and this is a big enough city for me anyway, I still get lost all the time” Illinois
May 10th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Tucson “Vampire-style hipsters only come out of their ridiculously cheap rental houses at night to drink pony beers and eat delicious Mexican food” Arizona
May 10th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Flagstaff “don’t stand upwind from the hippies on the downtown corners” Arizona
May 10th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Los Angeles “Echo Park’s the new Brooklyn, but with more sun and potential producers for my script” California
May 11th, 2011 at 2:11 am
Rest of the world “At least I’m not in the US…let me just go find myself in this market place…oooh! air conditioned coffee shop!”
May 11th, 2011 at 5:33 am
Indianapolis “Vonnegut and Steak n Shake are our crowning achievements,” IN
May 11th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Pittsburgh “rent is so cheap even if I will freeze in this old house with no insilation while I eat my sandwiches with fries inside and ride a fixed speed down the rivers” Pennsylvania
May 11th, 2011 at 8:47 am
Silverlake/Echo Park! “David Eggers has a Time Traveller Supply Store in Echo Park, suck on THAT Park Slope”
May 11th, 2011 at 9:08 am
LOVE the buffalo one! CO represent! There is nothing wrong with getting 50+ days a year of skiing! At least we are happy!
May 11th, 2011 at 9:22 am
Chicago hipsters also get the ability to judge people based on their neighborhood/train stop.
May 11th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Tulsa: “I’m surrounded by Republicans, but i can buy a house while in college.”
May 11th, 2011 at 10:29 am
Mexico “Jesus Christ, open your eyes and look beyond the country you were born and probably will die in, and you can live here like you would in NYC with money and the weather is perfect” City.
May 11th, 2011 at 11:46 am
Jersey City “I read on craigslist this was close to Manhattan and its really very pretty if I never leave my block,” New Jersey.
May 11th, 2011 at 11:56 am
Lawrence, Kansas: “Damn, we’re in the middle of nowhere but i seem to see hipsters everywhere.”
May 11th, 2011 at 11:57 am
First off, I have it on good authority that labazro is actually a canine. People, don’t tell me you’re still feeling guilty about gentrification. Here’s how I got over it: I read something in a local paper here in DC: black people in gentrifying neighborhoods see an ideal mix as being something like 35% black, 35% white, and the rest “other”. Reading that actually DID make me feel less guilty. I’m wanted! Yay! (I can also say that my own neighborhood has been absolutely, unambiguously improved by its influx of professionals of all ages and colors…there’s nothing life-affirming or bettering about used syringes and piles of broken glass…)
May 11th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Missoula (but don’t tell anyone) Montana
May 11th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Madison “What was I going to do between graduation and rugrats again? Go to the Dise on Tuesday night and get felt up on my way to the ladies room? Eff my life.” Wisconsin.
Milwaukee “We have diversity and the East side and at least it’s not Madison” WI.
Anchorage “It’s almost like Seattle and we have KBC! Only there are only two cool places to be seen in and disdain must be cultivated for anyone who doesn’t shop at Nordies and eat at the Roadhouse,” AK
May 11th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
My city (Austin) made it, so no worries here, though I often think of it as: “Why do I live in the only hip city with months of 100+ temperatures?”
Tip o the hat to the dude who worked in a Primanti Bros. reference for Pittsburgh.
May 11th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Davis “My coffee is roasted on a bike tumbler and delivered by bike and we have bike roundabouts on campus because there are more bicycles than bipeds” California, “Oh, and the US Bicycling Hall of Fame is here too”
May 11th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Oop, sorry, that was Katie, not a dude.
May 11th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Inner Loop Houston “best-kept secret for hipsters who can’t be bothered with copping an attitude, plus great music, sunshine and trees” TX
May 11th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Columbus “Only other Ohioans consider it hip, but at least I didn’t have to move too far from Mom and Dad,” Ohio
May 11th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Wilmington “All Roads Lead Out Of” Delaware
Washington “Grid lock 24/7, Reclaimed swamp land infested with tourists, getting poorer each summer running my A/C” D.C.
May 11th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Richmond “it’s cheap and full of pretty girls riding bikes” Virginia.
May 11th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Kansas City “We grew up on the Kansas side in the pretty houses and drove beamers but misery is where it’s at” MO
May 11th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
McAllen “There’s a drug war on the other side of this border but at least the Margarita’s are cheap” Texas
May 11th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Thank you for not including Chicago. We have enough “slum it in the city and then go work for daddy” arty types here as it is.
May 11th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
you definitely forgot:
wicker park, chicago
silverlake, los angeles
2 of the biggest hipster neighborhoods in the US
May 11th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Somerville “We’re nothing like those rich white Harvard fucks, man, let’s smoke a jay and get a beer and play PS3 in our ridiculously cheap house and try to initiate a 3-way with my ex and the girl she picked up at the bar,” Massachusetts
May 11th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Atlanta “my Rainbows and grosgrain are pastellar than yours, but at least we don’t have beards”, Georgia
May 11th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Do we need more of these slugs in Chicago? How about “I can find the stuff at Farm & Fleet that’ll be five times more expensive at Urban Outfitters next school year. And Pabst’s headquarters is out there in Woodridge!
May 11th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Cincinnati “I live in a shroud of mystery; a twilight zone of civil war-era social structures. Being skilled at a useless craft here is rad given my flossing ability to avoid violent brutality walking down to the local gay bar/cafe gallery.”
May 11th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
San Diego “Syphilis by the Sea” California
May 11th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Pittsburgh “I make a living off my Etsy knitting store and spend most of my time at the artisanal coffee shop because my 1880s house is so cheap (but the heat is too expensive to stay home)” PA
May 11th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Columbia “Come for the film festival, stay for the pretentious afterparty” Missouri
May 11th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Savannah “I go to SCAD, I go to art school” Georgia.
May 11th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Phoenix “Where… wait, this city city sucks for hipsters”, Arizona.
May 12th, 2011 at 1:34 am
Austin “I just moved here from NYC/SF/L.A.; I’m happy to educate you on how much cooler I am than you and why the city I moved from is better than this place while simultaneously contributing to all the reasons why Austin is quickly losing its identity and becoming way less cool/livable than it was in the first place” TX.
May 12th, 2011 at 5:47 am
Durham “All the aging hipsters from Chapel Hill moved here, and now cupcakes cost $2.50″ North Carolina
May 12th, 2011 at 6:05 am
Chicago: “Too smart for LA, too funny for NY, too fat for either.”
May 12th, 2011 at 6:54 am
Pittsburgh “Why are yinz pants so tight n’at?” Pennsylvania.
May 12th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Kansas City “How come all the good bands play in Lawrence?” MO
May 12th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Chicago “I live in Wicker Park cause the rent is cheap (but really mommy and daddy still pay it ) and I like the proximity to over-priced thrift stores” Illinois.
May 12th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Milwaukee “fueling hipsters with PBR well before the coining of the word ‘hipster,’” Wisconsin.
May 12th, 2011 at 11:25 am
Chicago “We’re all really from the suburbs living off trust funds” Illinois
May 12th, 2011 at 11:43 am
Berkeley “nuff said”
May 12th, 2011 at 11:46 am
I live somewhere super obscure, you’ve probably never heard of it…
-Chicago Hipsters
May 12th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Hartford, CT — halfway between Boston and New York, and you qualify as hip as long as you don’t work for an insurance company.
May 12th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Athens,” I used to be a frat boy, but now I’m a hipster..Did you see Michael Stipe last night?”, Georgia
May 12th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Rockport, “Even the Baptists wear sandals and ripped jeans to church.” Texas.
May 12th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
@Benjy your Chicago sounds a lot like a lot of these places. What makes it distinct?
I’m from Chicago, but moved to Portland in 2005, and if yours is correct you might need to add “and it’s kind of a brutal and tough city where all of these hipster things cost WAYYYYY too much.”
That’s just my Portland/Chicago comparison though.
May 12th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Silverlake/Echo Park/Koreatown/Los Feliz – “My neighbor is using his trust fund to finance his art career … on Saturday night I find dates in the taco truck line … All my friends have better jobs than me … Downtown LA is the best place to party … and PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS THE REAL LOS ANGELES SUCKERS! LA METRO 4-EVA.”
May 12th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Miami, “Que mas fixie que que mas fixie–pretty much resign yourself to driving/Home of the Latin Hipster,” FL
May 12th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Miami “The bigger your trust fund the poorer you dress. my clothes cost 1000 dollars but look 50 cent, lets take my dads boat out” Florida
May 13th, 2011 at 6:01 am
Greensboro, “You don’t have to be intelligent to be a hipster” North Carolina
May 13th, 2011 at 6:34 am
San Francisco, “My God. I never thought my own personal left-of-the-middle politics would be ever be aligned with the Bush-Cheney Administration in this town”, California
May 13th, 2011 at 8:34 am
You absolutely need Chicago, “Second-City my ass!” Illinois.
irreverentguidetolife.com
May 13th, 2011 at 9:53 am
I know so many people who moved to New Orleans after graduation and I cannot stand hearing them squawk with ~NOLA pride~ and post Instagrams of run down post-Katrina buildings. I just want to scream, “You have lived there for three months! THREE! Years after the hurricane! Stop exploiting other people’s tragedies for your Facebook-esteem!”
May 13th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Pittsburgh – For people who think Cleveland is too exciting
May 13th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Pittsburgh, “rent is so cheap that i can work part time at a restaurant, and spend all my free time swimming in the dirty dirty allegheny under the 40th street bridge. it’s too bad i don’t have health insurance because that river water gave me a staph infection” Pennsylvania.
May 13th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Atlanta ” I’m pretending to live in a real major city” Georgia
May 13th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Pittsburgh “There’s a pool on Polish Hill where all the beautiful bike punks swim in makeshift bathing suits and mad tats and I don’t think any of them are trustfunders Get your ass out of the dirty river” PA
May 13th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
San Luis Obispo “I don’t own a TV, but screw Oprah for calling this place happy” California
May 14th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Islands: “I’m running away from reality, but hey there’s always fresh fish”.
May 14th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Tucson “I hang my Nalgene from my handlebars as I avoid potholes and squint because of the sunlight even through my sunglasses” Arizona.
Nice to see the two cities I’ve considered moving to are on here. I can work on becoming a real hipster!
May 15th, 2011 at 7:13 am
Cleveland: “Better than it looks, with all it’s culture and music, but gettin’ a Bad Rap all round’
May 15th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Staten Island “It ain’t Brooklyn, rents are much cheaper, the ferry is free, it’s-so-not-ironic-it’s-ironic” New York.
May 15th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Albany “It’s upstate but there’s tons of ex-Manhattanites along the Hudson in smaller towns just south of here that have way better clubs and restaurants than we do here, but hey, a HUD house costs less than $50K and they say we may even get a Trader Joe’s soon” New York.
May 16th, 2011 at 2:24 am
Scranton “Did you hear the latest Nirvana single that just came out?” Pennsylvania
May 16th, 2011 at 6:05 am
Indianapolis: Wow! Pretty clean and I can afford to live in the heart of downtown. Something must not be right? Oh yeah… it’s Indiana.
May 16th, 2011 at 7:24 am
Pittsburgh – Where hipsters go when tired of getting into pissing contests with DC, Baltimore, and Philly hipsters. Did I mention cheap rent, good food, and a penchant for PBR Pounder specials? Pennsylvania.
May 16th, 2011 at 7:24 am
Richmond “there are still a bunch of art school hipsters -cigarettes are the cheapest they’re going to get- and at least everyone is as broke as me” Virginia
May 16th, 2011 at 8:56 am
I’m from Seattle and there’s nothing hipster, or hip for that matter, about punk. I don’t even now where I’d go to see a punk show here.
May 16th, 2011 at 9:15 am
Louisville “I never thought I’d live in” Kentucky
May 16th, 2011 at 10:06 am
Miami “might as well lay on a beach and party with DWade while I’m still pretty” Florida.
May 16th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Spokane “It’s only four hours to Seattle and one hour to Canada” Washington
May 16th, 2011 at 11:53 am
Northern “I’d rather hang here and squat on my friends’ couch where rent is ridiculously expensive where my vote actually counts and Metro everywhere, including Clarendon or Old Town, than live in DC” Virginia
May 16th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Reno “I’m stuck in this black-hole-of-a-town only known for Reno 911 and quickie divorce, so I’m gonna go to an Aces game or Farmer’s Market and ask everyone I run into (the same people I ran into last week) what they have been doing since high school” Nevada
May 16th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Raliegh “I gave up on being hip” North Carolina
May 16th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
I second Athens, GA.
May 16th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Nashville and Los Angeles. Two very different breeds of hipsters.
May 16th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I third Athens, GA. Getting the Michael Stipe reference really nailed it.
May 16th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
You can’t spell STyLe without STL
-St. Louis, MO
May 16th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
St. Louis: Where we will hand you part of the city for free and you can add your own PBR can sculpture. Artist revival!
May 16th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Bellingham “Seattle’s so hipster cliché (and expensive. but mostly cliché.) and Death Cab are actually from up here, anyway” Washington
May 16th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Spokane “Urban post-chic, best local music for 300 miles and killer brews (no really)” Washington
May 16th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Spokane “I can get PBR on Wednesday nights at 50 cents a pint, and then wander around listening to bands from bar to bar” Washington
May 16th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Silverlake “Where a converted garage is more expensive than a two-bedroom in the Valley but it comes with a palm tree covered in graffiti” California
May 16th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
this needs to be a book.
May 16th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Baltimore “I got this great rowhouse down in Pigtown, hon. The far gins get loud at night but it’s ok because I’m sitting on my stoop”, MD
Washington “Northeast, man. Northeast”, DC
Brooklyn, “I remember when this place wasn’t so common” NY
Austin “Tacos and food trucks bike trails so I can get anywhere I need… and the buses have bike racks”, TX
I lived in all four places. My Baltimore roots love the Pittsburgh hate in these comments.
May 17th, 2011 at 5:51 am
Charlotte “The chics here are actually hot and it’s not just all about NASCAR” North Carolina
May 17th, 2011 at 8:53 am
Providence definitely needs a spot on here…
Providence “we re-named ourselves ‘the creative capitol’ from ‘beehive of history’ to try to bring in hipsters from boston and it worked way too well” Rhode Island.
or
Providence “you mean Brown and RISD?” Rhode Island
or
Providence “half genuine Ivy league hipsters, half genuinely poor artists!” Rhode Island
or
Providence “these old abandoned condemned mills make such a statement being remodeled for artist villages and farmers markets and over-priced studios” Rhode Island
May 17th, 2011 at 8:55 am
**** beehive of industry not history
May 17th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Annapolis “I blow smoke at shirtless runners as they go past me on this nameless cofeehouse on West street’s sidewalk table”, Maryland
May 17th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Louisville “I moved away and came back to get lucky in Kentucky” KY
May 17th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Altoona “Where we sell hotel pizza and our town’s identity for roughly the same price” Pennsylvania.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
San Jose, CA – We don’t get no respect (mainly because we don’t respect ourselves).
May 18th, 2011 at 2:35 am
“I’m almost 40, burnt all my money, and now back home with my parents” Main Street, USA
May 18th, 2011 at 6:07 am
I fourth Athens “Ugh would these freshmen get over themselves and realize that there’s more to beer than Natty Lite” GA
May 18th, 2011 at 6:51 am
When did Detroit qualify as inhabitable? Clearly you’ve never been there.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:52 am
St. Louis “Rent low enough that I can afford those Prius payments and organic granola” Missouri.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:31 am
Auburn “no hipsters in this college town and all the hippies moved to Waverly,” AL
May 18th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Albuquerque aka ‘Burque, aka The Duke City, you can’t hardly throw a breakfast burrito without hitting a poet
May 18th, 2011 at 11:11 am
Cleveland “Rocket from the Tombs and the Electric Eels basically invented punk and our bands still rock, but we don’t need your validation anyway” OH
May 18th, 2011 at 11:15 am
Cleveland – “Hey- where did everyone I used to know here move to?” – Ohio
May 18th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Greensboro “Asheville is too mainstream” North Carolina
May 18th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Cleveland- world class orchestra, art museum and medical and educational facilities. Three professional sports teams, with avid fans. Four seasons of weather-some beautiful, some not, but it creates character. Lake Erie. One of the best migratory bird routes in the country. Ditto National and local park systems. Second largest theatre venue eastern U.S. Fab restaurants (mike symon too). Affordable housing in all price ranges. R&R Hall of Fame. Visit. You’ll see.
May 18th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Albuquerque “It’s the Glasgow of the Southwest, I can work in movies and not have to live in LA, and I can work on my Spanish” New Mexico.
May 18th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Oakland “I’ll defend its kick-ass arts scene, sweet urban lake, awesome weather, and hip hop scene (Too Short and Hammer, anyone?) forever, or at least til I get priced out of the bad schools, inhumane housing costs, and random violence” California.
May 18th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Indianapolis – “The only liberal part of” Indiana
May 18th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Los Angeles “Where hanging out in coffee shops pretending you’re waiting on a call from your agent is already a way of life” California
There is some kind of hipster homing beacon in Silver Lake, I just know it.
May 18th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
And my hometown:
San Jose “Everywhere cooler is too expensive” California
May 19th, 2011 at 1:48 am
Portland “We were Portland before the ‘other Portland’ was Portland” Maine
May 19th, 2011 at 4:25 am
South City St. Louis ‘I’m secretly glad that gay people moved in first and cleaned things up’ Missouri
May 19th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Detroit “Still more good stuff than Buffalo, without the blizzards”, Michigan
May 19th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Dang – the “at least it’s not Detroit” one was taken. (j/k Detroiters. We love you.)
Grand Rapids “Hipsters can attend prayer groups without apology or ironic self-detachment” Michigan.
May 19th, 2011 at 10:44 am
Madison “I saw y’all protesting in the New York Times and I want to be angry in townie bars too!” Wisconsin
May 19th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Tampa “Half of everybody moved here from Detroit…just like me” Florida
May 19th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Anywhere in “wow, it smells like woodsmoke and poverty here” Michigan
May 20th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Savannah, GA – dominated by an art college, beautiful city and weather, plenty of culture, and you can run an errand in five minutes that would take an hour in most cities
May 20th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Gainesville “There’s tempeh in my beard and mosquitoes in my PBR” Florida
May 21st, 2011 at 9:03 am
The San Francisco Bay “I’m glad real estate bubble has burst so that households making 90K can maybe oneday buy a shack in the hood” Area, CA,
May 24th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
How could you miss Chicago? Chicago is awesome.
May 26th, 2011 at 9:04 am
Santa Fe “if I live long enough I can join the over-50 gray-haired ponytailed hipster lawyers and real estate agents with their keens and crocs and birkenstocks juggling chai and androids at the latest ten-piece bearded and/or granny dressed ukulele strumming Americana band’s outdoor concert on the plaza” New Mexico
June 2nd, 2011 at 1:35 pm
How about Chicago “I moved here before it was cool” Illinois.
June 28th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Asheville to a ‘T’
Charlotte, maybe?
Visting you see a lot of them gather in alleys and smoke.
July 14th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Austin “50 year old realtor trying to come up with enough hipster code words to make this entry believable” Texas
July 27th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
durham!, NC. It was so much cooler before it was “cool.” But now there are good place to eat and drink. However, “Main Street” might give you the wrong impression.
August 23rd, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Big Island “the only hipsters are WWOOFers” Hawaii.
The Albuquerque liners are spot on. Too funny.
November 28th, 2011 at 5:53 am
Jacksonville “play bike polo and do ‘art’ at UNF and NEVER EVER LEAVE” Florida
December 6th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Everett “close enough to Seattle to say I live there and far enough away so that I can afford to rent this 1910s Craftsman house” Washington
December 12th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Oxford, packed with frat stars and sorority brats but has a burgeoning hipster music/arts scene full of drop-outs and post-grads that claim they are from Oxford but are really from Jackson, Mississippi.
I left there two years ago after being there for almost 8 years and honestly I am ok with the “scene”. There is a lot of good music coming into Oxford due to a great indie label and a bunch of good “local” musicians. It’s one of the more Hipster-friendly communities in the South.
December 19th, 2011 at 12:38 am
Washington “I spend way too much to live in a Bloomingdale rowhouse closet, chain smoke Parliments, spend my change on wine & Bulleit Rye so I can look cool in my Urban Outfitters & American Apparel – that is when I’m not bartending to pay for my self-released album. I know Eric Hilton” DC.
December 23rd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Seattle “So angsty, i have to go to Starbucks and write a screenplay for some discreet theatre while also being introspective about being hipster undreneath this rainjacket” Washington
December 30th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
McKinney “nothing better to do than surf free wi-fi at Starbucks, skim the thrift store for designer clothes, and sit in the office at edward jones and offer commentary on my father’s retirement fund; balancing my interest in the 18 year old women at the three highschools, with my continued participation in the small time commodity trading market” Texas
January 13th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Tucson “I’m only staying here till my music gig works out. While I wait I can enjoy the music/art scene, Mexican food, cheap gas that I hardly ever fill my Prius with, and talk the manager at Bookmans into giving me a job” Arizona
January 17th, 2012 at 9:43 am
What about Charlotte “we drink the most pbr in the country” North Carolina
January 31st, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Columbus “I’m really more like a indie/yuppie type.Glad im finally got away from the burbs of my small town to attend Ohio State, but I guess I’ll stay since i’ve graduated and move back to the burbs of Columbus while still dressing the part of an indie/yuppie and party downtown in the Short North every weekend while also eating at the many locally owned restaurants availiable just enough to maintain my cred but im really an elitist” Ohio
January 31st, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Cleveland “Our hipsters are more jaded than yours.” OH
February 5th, 2012 at 12:34 am
Dude Chicago like the hipster capital of the world on the north and northwest sides. Lincoln Park, Wicker Park etc.
February 7th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Cincinnati “Over-The-Rhine is coming back. Really guys, it is”, Ohio
February 13th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Austin, “why is there not even one seat in this coffee shop?, I guess i”ll try another, oh wait this one is full too,” Texas