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DC has no real hipster area other than college campuses. Hipsters live in inexpensive places close to an art scene. No midwest hipster dreams of moving to DC lol, artistic people don't like cultural voids.
I think that's sorta true, but something else is happening these days. I really think that 'hipsters'...i.e. college-educated liberal art degree kids....who didn't study the right degrees for 'success'....are basically pouring into ALL of the cities, regardless if they are cool cities or not.
I have a feeling that even cities like Oklahoma City probably has a hip hipster subset of kids who came from the surrounding areas just as well, as the Portland Oregons.
Being that DC is such an important city globally....despite not being an important one arts/etc...I'm sure it'll still draw people in, in some capacity or another.
DC has no real hipster area other than college campuses. Hipsters live in inexpensive places close to an art scene. No midwest hipster dreams of moving to DC lol, artistic people don't like cultural voids.
Most hipster havens are far from inexpensive. Williamsburg, aka Hipster Ground Zero, is not inexpensive.
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Originally Posted by Tiger Beer
I think that's sorta true, but something else is happening these days. I really think that 'hipsters'...i.e. college-educated liberal art degree kids
While there may not be a consensus definition for a "hipster," I think your definition is far too broad.
As a local, it's hard to differentiate between a hipster and yuppie. Both are gentrifiers, suburban, highly educated, and love to drink.
Both come from privileged backgrounds, but maybe the hipster better fits the trust fund baby working for a non-profit "just trying to make it" yet can still afford to party and dine out all the time and travel the world mold? Are hipsters the ones who like living near low income folks and yuppies just want beer gardens, condos and fewer "natives"? i'm sure it's not that cut and dry.
the only difference i see is what attire one chooses to wear. maybe 10 years ago the difference was cut and dry, but these days it seems like apples and apples to me.
Tons of culture on display at the H Street Festival the other weekend, where thousands of people showed up. Even if you don't like that kind of culture, it's far from a "void," which would imply the culture doesn't even exist.
For example, I might not like go-go music, but it still exists and is a form of culture, so by definition not a void.
Also I see tons of hipsters who are well beyond college age at shows at the Black Cat, Rock n Roll Hotel, Red Palace, DC9, etc. Maybe they're not as hipstery as what you'd find in Brooklyn but these are definitely people the average American would call hipster.
Going to a concert makes you a "hipster"? That's silly. I'm in my thirties and have been to concerts at the Black Cat and went to a burlesque at the Red Palace. Big whoop. Both times I dragged my ex whose was (and still is) in his 40s.
I don't know maybe my gripe is with this idea that you're supposed to do xyz and can't even go to a concert without being labeled something.
I like H street. I hate that I missed the festival. I'm sure it was a blast.
Yes I realize that the city is changing and some say not for the better, as indicated in the below article. Although I say that the store is closing because it failed to keep up with the changing times not because of the improvements made to H street.
Going to a concert makes you a "hipster"? That's silly. I'm in my thirties and have been to concerts at the Black Cat and went to a burlesque at the Red Palace. Big whoop. Both times I dragged my ex whose was (and still is) in his 40s.
I don't know maybe my gripe is with this idea that you're supposed to do xyz and can't even go to a concert without being labeled something.
I like H street. I hate that I missed the festival. I'm sure it was a blast.
Yes I realize that the city is changing and some say not for the better, as indicated in the below article. Although I say that the store is closing because it failed to keep up with the changing times not because of the improvements made to H street.
Why would you interpret what I wrote to mean that I think EVERYONE at a concert is a hipster? I thought it was pretty obvious that I meant certain people. And I don't even mean EVERY show at those venues. It's just a fact that those venues tend to get bands that hipsters like, and hence there are often hipsters there.
As a local, it's hard to differentiate between a hipster and yuppie. Both are gentrifiers, suburban, highly educated, and love to drink.
Both come from privileged backgrounds, but maybe the hipster better fits the trust fund baby working for a non-profit "just trying to make it" yet can still afford to party and dine out all the time and travel the world mold? Are hipsters the ones who like living near low income folks and yuppies just want beer gardens, condos and fewer "natives"? i'm sure it's not that cut and dry.
the only difference i see is what attire one chooses to wear. maybe 10 years ago the difference was cut and dry, but these days it seems like apples and apples to me.
I'd say the yuppies are the one in the collared shirts, and would prefer Arlington by large margins.
Hipsters would be more attracted to poor neighborhoods..more gentrifiers.
Yuppies usually buy everything up after the neighborhood has become gentrified.
I'd say the yuppies are the one in the collared shirts, and would prefer Arlington by large margins.
Hipsters would be more attracted to poor neighborhoods..more gentrifiers.
Yuppies usually buy everything up after the neighborhood has become gentrified.
got it, that makes sense!
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