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Best Hipster Cities

While there are some places, I get the impression that being towards the bottom of the list like DC is not really supposed to be a good thing.
 
auntiehill said:
Austin? Oh HELL yeah. Houston? HOUSTON???? The entire hipster population is regulated to one area south of downtown and they are rarely allowed in to intermingle with the uber-red neck nouveau riche. I think it's one of those invisible fence barriers, like they use on dogs.

Houston couldn't be hip if the freakin' oil prices depended on it.
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Keep Houston normal, Austin is for the weird. lol.
I too was surprised to see Houston on that list tho.
 
^I'd revise that to: Keep Houston Boring. Keep Austin Weird.

I'll take weird over boring any day.
 
Roanoke is full of hipsters, and not only that we're the premier LGBT hotspot and community within about a 200-mile radius. We're very cosmopolitan and liberated for a Bible Belt city located in the Appalachians and that still has a hardcore population of social conservatives. Lots of coffee houses have sprung up, quite a few trendy nightspots are in operation and lots of cliquishness abounds with plenty of people organized into their own hip, trendy little groups that you see hanging out all over town in nightclubs and other popular gathering places.
 
i still don't understand what 'hipster' is. must be because i'm totally uncool, untrendy, unstylish and above all, British.
 
Oh yeah, I'm not surprised at all to see Portland the Elder on that list. Must be something about the name.
 
I've always mentally translated hipsterism as "off the rack depth" i.e. lacking real character. Totally different from people who are genuinely idiosyncratically interesting.
 
Holdfast said:
I've always mentally translated hipsterism as "off the rack depth" i.e. lacking real character. Totally different from people who are genuinely idiosyncratically interesting.
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I think there are two breeds of hipster. One is genuine in is appearance and interest. The other is just trying to be trendy. It's hard to tell the difference until you actually interact with them on a regular basis.
 
Maybe I just have a hard time picking out hipsters, but since Denver is on the list I guess they're here. Granted I spend too much time at my kid's little league games, cub scouts and gymnastics classes, so maybe we're just not in the same places.
 
I think hipster has moved so much into the mainstream now that you'd be hard-pressed to see someone who isn't like that... the term is pretty much redundant, at least, around here. Must be time for the next wave.
 
The term "hipster douche" is very popular in my area. HDs are the poseurs who adorn themselves in hipster trappings but shove their nouveau "status" and newly acquired tastes in other peoples' faces and insist on being snotty, obnoxious assholes. Some hipsters can be hipsters and not be pricks about it, getting along and mingling with people outside their clique and crowd. HDs cluster in self-segregated groups that are reluctant to have anything to do with "other people." I've seen it happen, and in all sorts of environments. The HD has a wider territorial range than the American gray squirrel.
 
horatio83 said:
I always thought that hipsters are the capitalist incarnation of Bohemians.
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That’s pretty much what I thought. “Hipster” makes me think of young urbanites in the 1950s (yes, I remember that far back!) who listened to cool jazz, had abstract expressionist art on their walls, and affected beatnik slang. Not real beatniks; more like middle-class poseurs.
 
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