Birmingham:The next hipster city? (Fairfield, Vincent: law, train, retired)

[cpg35223]

I just don't care.

[steveklein]

I vote no.

Just because there is a young crowd that go out and drink craft beer and wear skinny jeans hardly means that Birmingham is going to turn into a hipster town.

Some of the things people associate with "hipsters" are really just "young people" and a general shift in attitude. Younger people these days are more likely to be accepting of smoking pot, tattoos, having a taste for craft beer, for gay marriage and abortion, concern for the environment and not as involved in organized religion.

Are these ideas and beliefs creeping into Birmingham? Yes, but at a slower pace than more progressive cities.

[raj kapoor]

I think many people do not understand the meaning of this question. The key words mean different things to different people.
This question, posted after a recent news article about the subject, is really about the young entrepreneurial set that is driving start-ups and growth of cool new businesses, especially tech driven, not drugged out people who are sad they weren't around to be a hippy, so they get tattooed anyway.

[UKWildcat1981]

Originally Posted by raj kapoor

I think many people do not understand the meaning of this question. The key words mean different things to different people.
This question, posted after a recent news article about the subject, is really about the young entrepreneurial set that is driving start-ups and growth of cool new businesses, especially tech driven, not drugged out people who are sad they weren't around to be a hippy, so they get tattooed anyway.

That is true. When I think of hipster I think of counter culture people with tats and piercing that dress kinda funny.. that stuff works better out west in Seattle and San Fran then in the Bible Belt.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by bhamguy

Could Birmingham be the next hipster city? - Birmingham Business Journal

Birmingham Alabama lost it's place when it let Atlanta pass it up....and will never catch back up.

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by steveklein

I vote no.

Just because there is a young crowd that go out and drink craft beer and wear skinny jeans hardly means that Birmingham is going to turn into a hipster town.

Some of the things people associate with "hipsters" are really just "young people" and a general shift in attitude. Younger people these days are more likely to be accepting of smoking pot, tattoos, having a taste for craft beer, for gay marriage and abortion, concern for the environment and not as involved in organized religion.

Are these ideas and beliefs creeping into Birmingham? Yes, but at a slower pace than more progressive cities.

This makes sense.

Originally Posted by raj kapoor

I think many people do not understand the meaning of this question. The key words mean different things to different people.
This question, posted after a recent news article about the subject, is really about the young entrepreneurial set that is driving start-ups and growth of cool new businesses, especially tech driven, not drugged out people who are sad they weren't around to be a hippy, so they get tattooed anyway.

This also makes sense.

Originally Posted by Howest2008

Birmingham Alabama lost it's place when it let Atlanta pass it up....and will never catch back up.

I'm no B'ham booster, but I disagree. Birmingham may not ever catch up with Atlanta, but it doesn't need to. Birmingham has an identity of its own and will continue to evolve in its own way. Not like Atlanta. ...and that's okay.

Now, for my personal opinion regarding the OP's question... sure, it could happen. Will it be the ultimate hipster mecca like Seattle and places of the like? I don't think so. I don't think most people want that to happen though.

[raj kapoor]

Amazing how intelligent posts stand out so eloquently against those that would simply regurgitate ideas that aren't even embraced.

With a million and a half people in the current CSA, it is obvious that one can and will find quite a few of everything. That is good for some, and not so, for others.

[ratchetjaw]

"Just because there is a young crowd that go out and drink craft beer and wear skinny jeans hardly means that Birmingham is going to turn into a hipster town."

That's exactly the same thing they were saying about Portland 10 years ago, and I think everybody is painfully aware of what a dump THAT'S gotten to be since the hipster pandemic hit.

As an outsider to your area I'm voting yes, solely on speculation (based on past events in other cities) that the next Great Mass-Migration to Birmingham might take some of the burden off Portland, so the latter might actually become marginally livable again.

[Tourian]

It can't happen. There's other scenes more dominant that aren't going anywhere. Namely the hip hop crowd, the frat bro crowd and the country music brodozer crowd.

Hipsters will just have to be happy with one side of Five Points South and some of Avondale.

[bluebeard]

Originally Posted by Tourian

It can't happen. There's other scenes more dominant that aren't going anywhere. Namely the hip hop crowd, the frat bro crowd and the country music brodozer crowd.

Hipsters will just have to be happy with one side of Five Points South and some of Avondale.

I think Avondale has become the epicenter, with fingers into downtown, lakeview, 5 points.