Portland in the NY Times again: "Hotbed of all things hipster"

[Deezus]

http://www.keeppolandweird.com/wp-co.../09/kpwred.jpg

Ha, you beat me to it, Mike...

Krakow is the new Prague.

[JBPisgah]

For me, the cure to hipster dislike (besides being numbed by its eon-long existence - seriously, this latest trend to be 25 years old now) has been living in a far less pleasant metro.

Sure the guy next to you wears an old sweater, a scarf, and shrunken jeans a six year old girl couldn't pry on, but you know what? He's also courteous, not particularly loud, and generally well behaved. Trust me, he's quite an upgrade over my music-at-all-hours blasting, swearing, littering, aggressive driving, horn honking, supercilious and generally uncivilized fellow citizens of the DC metro.

[Minervah]

Well the "keep wierd" slogan didn't begin with Portland. Other cities had it first. And Portland used to have a larger Afrcian American population in one place, it just got moved. And hipsters were in New York long before they hit Portland.

So it always seemed to me that Portland was just following a trend but suddenly got blamed for it. Don't know how that happened.

Maybe other cities were just looking around trying to put the blame somewhere else.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

I heard a rumor that New York only wanted the hipsters with trust funds, so they started all the Portland hype so the rest of them would move here.

[Beenhere4ever]

So do Portlanders give "hip pointers" to new arrivals?

Hip pointer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[doity]

I have kind of made my peace with the hipsters. Being a long-time resident, born and raised, I initially despised the hipsters because they tried to put on a front as being such "individualists", when in fact they all seemed to look and act the same. Also, they generally seemed to be somewhat snooty and once they seemed to grow in large numbers I thought to myself "This isn't the Portland that I grew up in" kind of thing.

Fast forward about 15 years or so and I am not hating on them so much as Portland has become a bit less rough around the edges and hipsters are generally not the kind of folks to cause a lot of ruckus and crime or whatever like another poster suggested. So, I guess the hipsters 15 minutes of fame has lasted a bit longer than I expected. What do they say......If you can't beat them join them, LOL.

[Beenhere4ever]

Are there any prominent names who are the public face of the "hipsters"? I'm not sure who is really the subject of discussion here.

[GatsbyGatz]

"Hipsters" are basically moderately-educated individuals who attempt to project themselves as intelligent, don't cause crime, clean up after themselves, and generally improve the neighborhoods and local economies they enter. "Hipster-bashing" itself has become a trend when in reality the hipster culture is a definite improvement over the hoodrat culture that had perpetuated big cities for the past few decades. Sorry, but I'll take a college-grad in my neighborhood over a junkie or thug anyday.