Faux Suburbia: The Top 15 Hipster Cities
#14 Chicago
Chicago's downtown core may be full of business associates and buildings that scream corporations but its side streets and smaller communities boast creative architecture and a plethora of art scenes and hangouts.
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15:
San Diego
Ron Burgundy would be ashamed. The city he has worked so hard to protect and share the news with has been upturned by hipsters and their thick rimmed glasses. He doesn't care for them, but they care for his city's rival look to Portland and Seattle. And oh, they don't wear shoes.
14:
Chicago
Chicago's downtown core may be full of business associates and buildings that scream corporations but its side streets and smaller communities boast creative architecture and a plethora of art scenes and hangouts.
13:
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Deep in the south, Santa Fe is a scorcher with its temperatures but its only attracted hipsters by the hundreds with a vibrant community that's in between cultural hotspots (Austin, Los Angeles).
12:
New York
If there's ever a city with enough culture for hipsters, it's New York. With Manhattan and Brooklyn, Broadway and a lively indie music scene and even thousands of food trucks across an infinite number of blocks, it's heaven for anyone that listens to MGMT.
11:
Savannah, Georgia
Though Georgia eats, breathes and sleeps football, the city of Savannah has a booming art scene that's dominated local restaurants and cafes and popped up numerous independent art galleries that have attracted packs of hipsters.
10:
Denver
Aside from mountain biking, hiking or playing hockey and football, Denver citizens are often found at the park, or on a patio sipping cocktails or our favourite: knitting. We're surprised South Park hasn't covered this yet.
9:
Philadelphia
The city of brotherly love and Rocky fights to hold on to its history of sports but their classical theaters, microbreweries and bar/art galleries say they're full of a lot of moustaches and bowties.
8:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has hipsters? It's true. The city of San Juan is full of skinny jeans and flower dresses due to its ethnic scene full of cafe, food trucks and flea markets.
7:
Austin
With very rural architecture when compared to Dallas and Houston, Austin doesn't hold many fast-food chains as most restaurants are independent and abide by it's slogan "Keep Austin Weird". It's boost in hipsters is partly due to the music festival South By Southwest.
6:
Providence, Rhode Island
Compared to nearby cities, Providence has a liking for high academics which has created flocks of artists and nerds and internet cafes and organic restaurants to suit their needs.
5:
Portland (Maine)
There's another Portland you say? How can this be? We can't believe it either but this part of Maine is a cultural-ridden spot for independent coffee houses, breweries and restaurants with a homemade flavor.
4:
New Orleans
It's hard to believe New Orleans could be considered a hipster locale as it's situated in the southern areas of the U.S. but due to its vibrant arts and fashion scene, it's a nest for suspenders and flip flops.
3:
San Francisco
The Bay Area has always been known for its hippie culture - various markets and a prominent rock and roll scene - but hipsters sprout from hippies which is part of the reason San Fran can't seem to get rid of them.
2:
Portland
As the hit television show Portlandia shows, the city of Portland has become a hipster paradise due to bike bars, shuffleboard parks and a steadily emerging music scene that knows no boundaries.
1:
Seattle
You could blame it on Nirvana and how grunge just became so totally rad all of a sudden but due to the city's population being geek chic, liking extravagant flavors of coffee and hitting up oyster bars, Seattle has become the hipster capital of the world.
