I had to laugh at Wikipedia for this tidbit. Hell, we knew this already — but the idea of reading about it on the internet makes it sort of awkward. Guess it’s time to start a new neighborhood….
Hipster districts
Due to financial circumstances hipsters have often been forced to live in formerly unfashionable, often blighted neighborhoods in large cities around the world; after wealthier middle-aged people (many of whom are former hipsters themselves) move into these areas and begin to gentrify them, hipsters often move on.
Noted hipster districts in the United States include:
* The Mid-Town and Cass Corridor areas in Detroit, in addition to Hamtramck and Ferndale, suburbs of Detroit
* Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Eagle Rock in Los Angeles
* The French Quarter and The Marigny in New Orleans
* Williamsburg, Red Hook, Lower East Side, and East Village in New York
* Thayer Street in Providence
* Virginia-Highlands and Little Five Points in Atlanta
* Midtown in Memphis
* The Station North Arts District as well as sections of Bolton Hill, Hampden, Charles Village, and Fells Point in Baltimore
* Davis Square in Somerville, Allston/Brighton and Mission Hill in Boston
* East Nashville in Nashville
* Houston Heights and Montrose in Houston
* Logan Square, Bucktown, Ukrainian Village, and the very few remaining ungentrified blocks of Wicker Park in Chicago
* Baxter Avenue in Louisville
* Mount Pleasant, U Street Corridor, Le Droit Park, and Adams Morgan, in Washington, DC
* Old City and Northern Liberties in Philadelphia
* Capitol Hill in Seattle
* North, NE, and SE Portland in Portland, Oregon
* Austin, Texas
* South Side in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* the Mission District and the Lower Haight neighborhoods of San Francisco
* North Oakland, California
* Olympia, Washington
* Hoboken, New Jersey
EDIT: Since some yahoo took it upon themselves to delete this section from the Wikipedia entry, Google has graciously cached it for you here so you can see it all.
