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No it is not, Brooklyn is only 30% hipster. While each of these cities listed are more like 50-60% hipster.
Hipster areas in Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Greenpoint
residential ares of Downtown Brooklyn (Cobble Hill, Dumbo, Navy yard)
most of Red Hook/Guwanas
Prospect Heights
western most portions of Crown Heights & Flatbush (hipster growth in black ghettos)
about 1/3rd of bed stuy (originally a black ghetto but now heavily hipster)
about half of Bushwick (originally a Hispanic ghetto but now almost completely gentrified)
Ghetto/Black Caribbean n Rican hoods
East New York (dangerous ghetto, black/Caribbean & Rican south of atlantic, and Dominican and Indian north of it)
Brownsville (one of the most dangerous hoods on the eastcoast)
Most of Crown Heights, Flatbush & Bed Stuy (still black despite white hipster growth)
About half of Bushwick (still Hispanic especially goin towards Broadway and Moffat)
Canarsie, East Flatbush & Flatlands (lower middle class Afro Caribbean)
small portions of Coney Island and Red Hook.
Eastern Brooklyn is dominated by low income African Americans, Puerto Ricans/Dominicans, & West Indians.
Immigrant areas in Brooklyn Southwest portions of Bk
most of Coney Island (Russian & Mexican)
Boro Park & Midwood (Jews & Indians)
Gravesend (Russian)
Bensonhurst & Fort Ham ( Italian with some Chinese)
Sunset Park (Mexican & Chinese)
Park Slope (wealthy white neighborhood with some old time Irish in the southern portions)
How can Brooklyn be "hipster mecca" when only about a third of it is gentrified/hipster.
1/3 of Brooklyn is hundreds of thousands of people, enough to be a major city
Seattle is more "enlightened yuppies" than hipster. By "enlightened" I mean people who are very conscious of their lifestyle, the things they purchase, and diet, with a big emphasis on investing in the local market.
No it is not, Brooklyn is only 30% hipster. While each of these cities listed are more like 50-60% hipster.
30% of Brooklyn is like 900,000 people. That's kinda the point.
Using your own estimates, there are far more hipsters in Brooklyn alone than if the entire city of Portland and all close in suburbs were 100% hipster.
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Originally Posted by Spreadofknowledge
How can Brooklyn be "hipster mecca" when only about a third of it is gentrified/hipster.
Because it has more hipsters than anywhere else?
How can NYC be the financial center when only a small proportion of the city works in financial services? How can LA be the movie center when only a small proportion of the city works in Hollywood? They have huge raw numbers.
Much of Portland isn't hipster, either. East Portland is mostly working class whites, and sorta redneck. There are very suburbanesque, kinda upscale parts of West Portland.
Which of these cities do you think offer the best stereotypical Millennial experience? You know, coffee, craft beer, bad art, legal foliage, live music, etc, etc.
Very liberal politically and LGBT friendly. San Francisco of course offers the most, but its cost of living can be prohibitive for people in their twenties just starting out. I tend to lean Portland or Denver. Austin is up there, but it loses a few points because its in Texas and is somewhat choked by the conservatism that pervades the state.
You are asking which city is worse in terms of post modern pretencious snobbery?
30% of Brooklyn is like 900,000 people. That's kinda the point.
Using your own estimates, there are far more hipsters in Brooklyn alone than if the entire city of Portland and all close in suburbs were 100% hipster.
Because it has more hipsters than anywhere else?
How can NYC be the financial center when only a small proportion of the city works in financial services? How can LA be the movie center when only a small proportion of the city works in Hollywood? They have huge raw numbers.
Much of Portland isn't hipster, either. East Portland is mostly working class whites, and sorta redneck. There are very suburbanesque, kinda upscale parts of West Portland.
So by your logic, New York City is also the most ghetto city. With 20-30% of New Yorkers living in low income dangerous neighborhoods, thats over 2 million NYers. Brooklyn in particular is like 30% and in the Bronx its likely up to 60%. More NYers living in the ghetto than Chicagoans and Philadelphians (2 of the most notorious big cities) combined.
You are asking which city is worse in terms of post modern pretencious snobbery?
Portland
I don't understand how Portland is snobbish, post modern or not. It's not like people there are that actively engaged in climbing up the social ladder and getting all fancy on you. When I think snobby, I think Newport Beach, Beverly Hills, or Upper East Side. Even in a generous use of the word, people in Portland never struck me as particularly stuck up or exclusive.
For the specifics the OP asked for, Portland is a pretty good answer. Either Oregon or Maine.
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So by your logic, New York City is also the most ghetto city. With 20-30% of New Yorkers living in low income dangerous neighborhoods, thats over 2 million NYers. Brooklyn in particular is like 30% and in the Bronx its likely up to 60%. More NYers living in the ghetto than Chicagoans and Philadelphians (2 of the most notorious big cities) combined.
It's pretty safe to say that NYC is the most ____ city for a lot of things in the US.
Denver has its share of hipsters, but Portland wins hands down. The hipster lifestyle makes me laugh. It's supposedly about individuality and non-conformance yet they all look nearly identical.
Nailed it! Sheep following the sheep is all they are. Conservatism is the new counter culture whether they want to believe that or not.
Nailed it! Sheep following the sheep is all they are. Conservatism is the new counter culture whether they want to believe that or not.
Both wrong. Health goths working in middle management is the new counter culture.
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