Claim: "We Found Where The Hipsters Are Coming From"
"Young people in their late twenties who fashion
themselves as outside of the mainstream — derisively referred to as hipsters —
are a major force in New York, especially trendy neighborhoods like
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But how did they get there? Where do they all come from?"
Fortunately these questions can be answered by the U.S.
Census Bureau. Looking at their flows mapper — which measures people moving to
or from a county to any other counties — we were able to find out where people
were coming from when they moved to Brooklyn.
This map shows counties that had a significant number of
people aged 25-30 who moved to Kings County, New York, also known as Brooklyn.
These are prime candidates for hipsterdom.
So while we're not saying that all people between 25 and 30
who are moving from the rest of the country to Brooklyn are hipsters, this fits
the bill.
If you look closer, you can also see that Brooklyn is
bringing in people from Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Austin, and the
Research Triangle in North Carolina.
So next time you want to bash New York Hipsters, just
realize that it's not New York that's the cause. It's all of you.
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Flowsmapper
24 comments:
We are the hipsters we've been waiting for?
Glad the RTP hipsters left. Keep them. Do not allow them to leave.
Thanks.
"But how can I be a non-conformist if I'm still conforming?"
Reminds of a bumper sticker I recently saw: "I express my individuality through mass-produced bumper stickers"
A major force in Brooklyn. Can that be true? I guess we should ask one of them.
Ask Trooper.
Poor Trooper.
I blew up that map. All it shows is that young people move into big cities. Like, DUH.
Are hippies all the kids that when they're still teenagers living at home and you go into their rooms it's like hell music goes off in your skull from the total chaos of everything they wear plus erasers and scissors and books and papers and broken pencils on the floor? Yes.
Brooklyn is hip?
Don't tell them the old baseball team was known as da Bums
You can't map hipsters, they are Citizens of the World. (Well, except the icky places like Syria and everywhere else other than Brooklyn, Austin, Portland and South of Market San Francisco.)
I'm not sure why, but certainly this must be somehow ironic.
Hispters have destroyed my neighborhood. It is time to move. I have lived here all my life and my grandmother came in 1902. But it is time to leave.
Trooper says that because hipsters usually starve.
They don't put on the plus size pounds.
(I Couldn't resist)
Hispters are assholes. I will give you an example.
A Vidalia onion costs 2.99 a pound in the hipster store Union Market.
A Vidalia onion costs 1.99 a pound
in the Korean Vegetable store across the street.
They would rather buy the more expensive onion because they are morons.
What's the difference between a bowling ball and a Vidalia onion?
If you had to, you could eat a bowling ball.
Hipsters have zero issue pretending to be existential minimalists while hypocritically spending massive amounts of money to look and live like dirty dishrags.
But at least they're not splooge stooges, am I right?
Insufficent data of exporting counties.
Equating "age 25 to 30" with "hipster" is pretty silly.
A hipster is easy to identify. They shop at Whole Foods. They get their coffee at Starbucks. They have an Ipad and a Iphone and a bunch of tattoos. They voted for Obama and think he is doing a great job. They are entitled to do whatever they want and nobody can tell them what to do.
Fedora hats, suit vests, dress slacks or skinny jeans, trainer shoes, painted topsides.
Those things mentioned other than predictable voting pattern are not so bad.
I couldn't see any loss (blue) counties.
The county we moved from between censuses (censii?) shows a gain. Since our house was demolished after we left, no one moved into it. But maybe the apartments that have sprung up (like mushrooms, as they say) and the gazillion $ houses on the golf course that went up made up for our departure of 4.
Of course we aren't hipsters, so they didn't count us anyway.
I have heard that Brooklyn is becoming The Place. (Who ever says they live in Queens and it has clout?) Peggy Noonan lives in Brooklyn. I think one of the big starlets just had an article about living in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is The Place.
And Troop -- do you want me to mail you some Vidalias? They are cheaper where they are made.
Reminds me of when we first moved south many years ago. The local grocery chain had Progresso proucts in its gourmet section.
Exotic is from where you are not.
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