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San Francisco (Mission District), Portland and Seattle come to mind
Yes of course. 3 out of the top 4 on my hippy quotient. Austinites should rejoice in their level of hippy culture now there, even though they still have to drive most places unlike the hippys who live among SF, Portland or Seattle that will leave their hippies with a lower eco footprint.
grapico's youngster clique breakdown on the first page is hilariously inept - you know cities like very few others around here and I've learned a good bit of info from your posts, but I'd stay away from sociology, at least in public.
There is not a large rockabilly scene in the Bay Area. Rockabillies are the most conservative youth subculture next to skinheads. In fact, skinheads often "become" rockabilly when they grow up a little and realize it's difficult making it through life with swazi tattoos and kids in mixed-race grade schools. Often they cover right over those white power tattoos with the rockabilly faves: dice, Misfits, Social Distortion, flames, etc. Wanting it to be 1955 clearly follows this conservative ideal. In fact, there are very few young rockabillies, that is a group of folks that are normally 30 and up.
I also like how you call the two dudes in that picture "hipsters," but not the guy across from them in a black band shirt, sunglasses and a silly hat. I mean, "hipsters" don't even exist, but if they did, what would be the difference between those 3 guys in the picture? I believe that was taken at that University of Chicago thing, no?
Hippies, as in the Summer of Love 1967 style hippies, barely exist, and the ones that do are in their 60s living out in rural spots across America. If you want that style of person but in a modern context, Madison, WI is your Midwestern spot, followed by the Twin Cities. The West Coast cities mentioned a bunch above, maybe Austin, Boulder, Burlington, and small college cities across the country.
grapico's youngster clique breakdown on the first page is hilariously inept - you know cities like very few others around here and I've learned a good bit of info from your posts, but I'd stay away from sociology, at least in public.
There is not a large rockabilly scene in the Bay Area. Rockabillies are the most conservative youth subculture next to skinheads. In fact, skinheads often "become" rockabilly when they grow up a little and realize it's difficult making it through life with swazi tattoos and kids in mixed-race grade schools. Often they cover right over those white power tattoos with the rockabilly faves: dice, Misfits, Social Distortion, flames, etc. Wanting it to be 1955 clearly follows this conservative ideal. In fact, there are very few young rockabillies, that is a group of folks that are normally 30 and up.
I also like how you call the two dudes in that picture "hipsters," but not the guy across from them in a black band shirt, sunglasses and a silly hat. I mean, "hipsters" don't even exist, but if they did, what would be the difference between those 3 guys in the picture? I believe that was taken at that University of Chicago thing, no?
Hippies, as in the Summer of Love 1967 style hippies, barely exist, and the ones that do are in their 60s living out in rural spots across America. If you want that style of person but in a modern context, Madison, WI is your Midwestern spot, followed by the Twin Cities. The West Coast cities mentioned a bunch above, maybe Austin, Boulder, Burlington, and small college cities across the country.
It was only partially serious to show that hipsters/hippies were not the same thing with some random pics from google. It was in response to this "I have always used hippie and hipster interchangeable."
there aren't MANY hippies here, but austin's a hippie-friendly town. more hippies as you head out of the city and into the hill country
rural parts of austin has real hippies... not those modern ones, but those ugly-dirty-toed-looking-nasty-haven't-showered-hippies.
But a fair city I think counts is Oakland. San Francisco is too overrun with techies and yuppies and hipsters. Oakland has a lot of those "rich hippies" (oxymoron, i know) that are way way wayyyyyy into that weird Burning Man festival.
I think the largest population of modern day hippies are in the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis OR, Eugene OR; some in northern California, maybe Arcata, CA. Seattle and Portland are mainly hipsters but there are some hippie types. Really anywhere there is really beautiful nature, there will be hippies. and the Pacific NW is just beautiful and green, mountains, lakes, hippie heaven.
Otherwise, Asheville, NC has hippies but also a lot of old rich folks and conservatives. The Catskills region in NY has OLD hippies, the hippies who were actually around in the 60's, not a whole bunch of new hippies, but there are some (I live around here and I'm what people would call a modern day hippie). New Paltz and Woodstock play up the old hippie vibe with their retail stores and the aesthetics of the towns. Ithaca, Ny has new hippies. I hear that Burlington VT is a hippie town but it seems a little too clean and polished to me although I've never been there. But Phish is from there which is why I think people say that a lot. Gainseville, FL is somewhat of a small hippie town, but matched with hipsters and old republicans. Also Madison, WI has modern hippies but again lots of other kinds of people, i'm not sure if they are a huge presence there. Austin is just full of hipsters and surrounded by flat nothingness.
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Major cities for modern day hippies
