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Adams Morgan felt completely yuppie to me, but maybe DC has lower standards for "counter culture" the only counter culture areas over that way seemed to be a small area of Takoma Park. Tryst that you posted on there for sure was like that. While there are certainly remnants of stuff there, the whole area felt yuppiefied to me as of last year. It's like people who think Clark/Belmont in Chicago is "counter culture"... no, not at all.
DC has always seemed to me to have the least counter culture/hip/weird areas of the traditional "big cool walkable" cities often talked about on here like boston, ny, philly, chi, seattle, portland, sf, la...
^^ East Village has it's share of yuppies that have moved in (but mostly seem confined to NoHo/SoHo/West Village) but it probably literally has 20x the stuff of Adams Morgan and completely destroys that area. Adams Morgan is basically a strip of stuff and another side street. East Village is street level retail allover the place from Bowery east to Avenue C and about everything between 3rd and 12th, and esp on 1st/2nd/st marks, but every street in between has stuff to do also.
In Buffalo, Allentown would fit. In Rochester NY, I'd say that around Monroe Avenue or Neighborhood of the Arts. In Albany, Lark Street in the Center Square neighborhood.
East Hollywood seems to have more of a counterculture vibe to it than surrounding Los Feliz, Central Hollywood and Silver Lake do. Those three neighborhoods seem to be more hipster-bordering on-yuppy than truly counter-culture. East Hollywood is less expensive and attracts the more actually-hip from what I've seen.
Currently in Chicago I'd say it's parts of Pilsen, Logan Square, and Bridgeport. Not every part of those areas, but parts. There's still some establishments left in other areas like Wicker Park and Bucktown and some scattered in random areas over many other parts of the city, but the largest concentration is probably in those three mentioned first.
Adams Morgan felt completely yuppie to me, but maybe DC has lower standards for "counter culture" the only counter culture areas over that way seemed to be a small area of Takoma Park. Tryst that you posted on there for sure was like that. While there are certainly remnants of stuff there, the whole area felt yuppiefied to me as of last year. It's like people who think Clark/Belmont in Chicago is "counter culture"... no, not at all.
DC has always seemed to me to have the least counter culture/hip/weird areas of the traditional "big cool walkable" cities often talked about on here like boston, ny, philly, chi, seattle, portland, sf, la...
^^ East Village has it's share of yuppies that have moved in (but mostly seem confined to NoHo/SoHo/West Village) but it probably literally has 20x the stuff of Adams Morgan and completely destroys that area. Adams Morgan is basically a strip of stuff and another side street. East Village is street level retail allover the place from Bowery east to Avenue C and about everything between 3rd and 12th, and esp on 1st/2nd/st marks, but every street in between has stuff to do also.
Don't recall ever comparing AdMo to the East Village. But overall, it is what it is. The places that I've listed in my previous post can have their quirky and eclectic moments as well. Adams Morgan itself used to be more extravagant back in the '80s and '90s according to some of the old heads. Of course, that's basically the case for most other Bohemian/counter-culture enclaves in some cities across America such as the LES, Village, SoHo, and Park Slope in the NYC, Haight-Asbury in SF, South Street in Philly, etc. I'll admit, the DC area overall may not be as eccentrically weird or Boho in the "counterculture sense" as say Philly, Baltimore, Portland, New Orleans, Boston, etc. But we're not all a "stuffy" bunch around here either. We know how to let loose, especially after a hard day or week at work and/or school
In Minneapolis Uptown was for a long time but it's gentrification has progressed enought that it isn't really anymore. As Uptown slowly gentrified through the '90s and '00s, the countercultural bohemian types spread throughout large swathes of the rest of the city so you will find them in most of the inner neighborhoods (and parts of St Paul as well). The biggest concentrations are in Northeast, Powderhorn, Whittier and Seward. There are still some in Uptown too, generally middle aged ex punk rockers and ravers who never left.
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If I had to chose the place in Omaha to be countercultural it would probably be Benson, Dundee or the Old Market. Granted most of them are just posers or yuppies who want to be hipsters.
This is just for light hearted fun.
Lets try not to get tangled in drama, controversy and bickering, kay?
Feel free to cut n' paste additions to my list or start yer own....whatever floats your boat.
Go!
Oregon Hawthorne, Portland
Whitaker, Eugene
Texas
Montrose, Houston,
Close-In around Capitol Ave, Austin
Minnesota
Uptown, Minneapolis
What is this counter culture of which you speak? Counter to what culture? I have lived in the Hawthorne Blvd area for 25 years, technically called Buckman or Sunnyside. Yuppie/hipster heaven here these days. One of the most expensive areas in which to live.
Long Beach, NY which is a sleepy beach town during the winter is most definitely counter-culture. Inhabited by surfers, skaters, artists, the young, and middle class families, they constantly have organic markets, live concerts and music, professional surfers and skaters, and no paucity of places to drink. Up until last year, the West End which is really the heart and soul of the place did not haveany chains until a Dunkin Donuts cam in..... Considering it is about 10 miles from Manhattan, everyone here is relaxed and chill and eschews the commercialism of the City that is constantly knocking on its door.
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