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Originally Posted by texastarkus
America's best cities for hipsters
#7 Austin - The Texas capital has long been a hotbed for live music as well as offbeat types, but the trendsetting locals also scored big points for being tech fluent. The most cutting-edge part of town these days is East Austin, which is bustling with art galleries such as Okay Mountain and bars such as The Liberty, which offers both a beer garden and one of the city’s most lauded food trucks, the Asian-fusion-style East Side King.
http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/america-s-best-cities-for-hipsters.html
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i would take that list with a grain of salt. i personally feel that austin is a more hipster-town than san francisco by far. i've never even seen very many hipsters outside of mission, except for maybe hays valley, noe valley and haight-ashbury. and not to mention the fact that's its so freakin expensive.... this town is a rich people's city. i'd personally rank austin in the top 3 and put san francisco somewhere along with philly or at least behind rhode island. and also they forgot to mention new york and los angeles. had those two cities been on the list... i'd put those two at no. 1 and 2 consecutively. those are the two anchoring cities in hipster culture, for the lack of a better term.
i bet san francisco got ranked so high because of techie bias.... a techie doesn't constitute a hipster. that's what you call a nerd.
my list would go something like this...
1. ny
2. la
3. seattle
4. portland
5. austin
6. rhode island
7. san francisco
8. atlanta
9. new orleans
10.??? any city can take this i guess athens, ga or tucson, az?