hipster area (Chicago, Cicero, Berwyn: restaurant, price, shop)

[surlycue]

ooooh ooooh!! am i popular enough to be smack talked?

always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

[surlycue]

Welp, that about covers it, then.


Chi-town, I had no idea! Shame on you.

[grapico]

I am popular enough to be smack talked. I had a troll thread about me eating biscuits vs ladarron. And also a thread calling me out to pay my child support.

[CoolSocks]

Originally Posted by Rewind4

It's true.

Like I said before, I'm 25, and it's funny (and ironic...) to see people I grew up with who had the best clothes, bicyles, and other things to suddenly pop up in neighborhoods they would have called "ghetto" (out of ignorance) back in high-school, looking like they could only choose their mom's clothes she put away 30 years ago, riding mutilated old bikes that they wouldn't be seen dead on only 10 years prior ( I've been riding old touring bikes since I learned how to do so....).

They're raving about little dive bars and old restaurants in places like Berwyn, Bridgeport and "West Logan Square" (aka Hermosa), places that I was laughed at by them back in the day for growing up in and having relatives in. They're frequenting thrift stores as though they were paid to do so, something I've shopped at my entire life.

They aren't changing the world; they're just exploiting aspects of the average blue-collar worker's way of life back in the 20th century. It's ironic to be average, look poor, and pretend to be thrifty when you grew up with a Lexus and Land Rover in a 4-bedroom suburban house, ya know.

I admit that would be frustrating, but you just sound like you're competing in the Who's a Bigger Hipster competition.

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by CoolSocks

I admit that would be frustrating, but you just sound like you're competing in the Who's a Bigger Hipster competition.

Ouch.

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by LakeShoreSoxGo

As child growing up, my father would take me to my nannie's on week ends when my parents went away. He was adamant about me learning how others survive and how most "average" people live day to day.

You mock hipsters for supposedly having a privileged life, yet you make it a point to mention that you grew up with a nanny and needed weekend excursions to see how "average" people lived?

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

You mock hipsters for supposedly having a privileged life, yet you make it a point to mention that you grew up with a nanny and needed weekend excursions to see how "average" people lived?

At least he ain't trying to hide it. Hipsters would never want people to know their privileged backround. It would ruin their "cred."

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by xavier xerxes

Making tons of one line posts does not equal a conservation.

As if I am the only person here that posts one line posts.

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by tonythetuna

At least he ain't trying to hide it. Hipsters would never want people to know their privileged backround. It would ruin their "cred."

So the hatred stems from the fact that hipsters don't shop at high end stores, buy designer brands, and ride around in BMW's.

[LakeShoreSoxGo]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

You mock hipsters for supposedly having a privileged life, yet you make it a point to mention that you grew up with a nanny and needed weekend excursions to see how "average" people lived?

I do not recall mocking hipsters for being privileged. I do not think most hipsters grew up privileged, personally. It shows in most of their mannerism.