Where are your state’s ”hipster” and ”high class” areas?
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There are many styles and types of people and cultures you could define and observe. But at least two groups seem to exist in almost every country in the world. The ”high class” (be it ”old money” or ”socioeconomic elite” or whatever you want to call it) and ”hipsters” (i.e arty, tech, media, ad, culture, high-brow, whatever you want to call it).
In New York, I’ve seen hipsters in Williamsburg and socioeconomic elite in the Hamptons. But where is your state’s Williamsburg and the Hamptons?
buickmccane@reddit
Hipsters in Richmond, high class in NoVA and Fauquier County.
In my Central New York hometown, high class is in Skaneateles, hipsters died out by 2020 and were replaced with Gen Z TikTok culture.
BigRichard1990@reddit
I would say VA old money/lots of money is McLean/Great Falls, VA.
Hipsters in Alexandria or Carytown/Museum District of Richmond.
Richmond old money area is Monument Av or out of town. I think Monument Av is reviving, maybe Old money people didn’t always live there. They do now, and they used to too, but it feels like there was a gap?
eurydice_aboveground@reddit
This is why I love Richmond, you can have hipsters living next to millionaires. I live on Monument in the Museum District and am neither hipster nor millionaire and fit in, too.
goodsam2@reddit
Yeah monument had a lot of money but more money is on river road and stuff out that way. That's the $10 million+ houses.
El_Polio_Loco@reddit
In the city limits the big money is Windsor Farms.
AfterSomewhere@reddit
I'd add Charlottesville to high class and monied folks.
17Girl4Life@reddit
New Orleans high class is the Garden District and hipsters are in Bywater. I had an apartment in the Garden District near houses owned by John Goodman, Sandra Bullock, and Jay Z and Beyoncé. The AHS season 5 mansion was a short walk in one direction and the house from Benjamin Button was a short walk the other way.
ResponseOne7122@reddit
Bywater is definitely the coolest but you've got hipsters all over in neighborhoods like Marigny, Mid City, and Bayou St John. Uptown has both rich folks and hipsters, depending on the block. The French Quarter was always the artsy neighborhood but it's gotten pretty expensive, still you'll find some old-timers around.
17Girl4Life@reddit
I love Bayou St John!
secretiveplotter1@reddit
hipster: asheville high class: idk, maybe the research triangle or charlotte
beenoc@reddit
High class is Cary, unless you're talking about "big golf course country club" high class, then it's Southern Pines.
ilp456@reddit
For those who don’t know, these towns are in NC.
Mamapalooza@reddit
Hipster: East Atlanta, Cabbagetown, Little Five Points, Inman Park. Normaltown in Athens. Downtown Augusta. Starland Savannah. Uptown Columbus.
High class:
Old money: Druid Hills, Garden Hills, Ansley Park, Virginia-Highlands, Chastain Park in Atlanta. Historic District, Ardsley Park, and Isle of Hope in Savannah. Cobbham and Crystal Hills in Athens. Ingleside Historic District and Cherokee Heights in Macon. Lake Burton and Rabun Gap in the mountains. Sea Island and The Landing at Skidaway Island on the coast
New money: Milton, John's Creek, Brookhaven in Atlanta. Senoia. Evans in Augusta. Richmond Hill and Pooler in Savannah.
New-Process-52@reddit
Dont forgot tuxedo park and west paces ferry road for old money
Mamapalooza@reddit
Ooh, good additions.
Col_GB_Setup@reddit
Pretty damn good
bryku@reddit
Old Money and New Money do exist, but hipsters are neither of them.
New-Process-52@reddit
Youd be surprised a lot of the hipster fashion crowd comes from wealthy families
bryku@reddit
I know many of them are wealthy, but being a hipster is independant of wealth.
New-Process-52@reddit
Theyre basically the same nowadays
One wears onclouds and the other wears sambas
shelwood46@reddit
I suspect any large city has both a Rich People area and a Hipster/Gentrifiers area. Pennsylvania has both in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and probably in all the medium cities too (doctors have to live somewhere). New Jersey doesn't really have cities, though again I suspect you'd find the same in the few they do have, but generally you will find both all over the place, honestly.
Mitth-raw-nuruodo50@reddit
You’re talking about South Jersey. North Jersey has plenty of hipster rich cities like Hoboken, Morristown even the beach side of Asbury park.
AdmiralMoonshine@reddit
Lawrenceville is always pointed to as the hipster neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
PhoneJazz@reddit
It’s more dependent on neighborhood than region within a state. For example, we have Baltimore, where Hampden and Remington are hipster areas and Roland Park is High Class.
ALeftistNotLiberal@reddit
Hampsterdam
Col_GB_Setup@reddit
Got that pandemic right here, right here
GreenBeanTM@reddit
Hell, my village of less than 500 people it changes depending on what side you’re on. On one side you have people living in tiny rundown homes doing drugs in their free time, and on the other you have people in 3 bedroom 2 bathroom houses with a mud room just for good measure.
ReferenceCreative510@reddit
To be fair, there's also Port Covington, which is a high-class ghost town, but high-class nonetheless.
kspence66@reddit
Also Harbor East for high class
LockNessCrotchMonst@reddit
Hamstredam?
AverageEcstatic3655@reddit
Williamsburg was for the hipsters in like 2005. Not anymore. Williamsburg is for high earning Manhattan workers now. The hipsters live in bushwick and ridgewood.
ITrCool@reddit
Lived in Kansas City, MO for six years.
Of the area, Ward Parkway, Leawood, Mission Hills, Sunset Hill West, and Armour Fields are some of the most affluent "high class" areas I can think of having visited during my time there. Country Club Plaza is a fairly affluent area regarding high class shopping and what not with a lot of designer stores there.
As far as hipsters and art culture, I'd say Brookside and Crossroads, in downtown KC are where it's at. Over the last three years I'd lived there, North Kansas City had also done a good job with its art community and revitalization of its city stretch and neighborhoods.
RedLegGI@reddit
Big cities.
JCrusty@reddit
Los Angeles: Silver Lake, Echo Park, Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Los Feliz
San Diego: North Park, University Heights, Kensington, South Park, and Normal Heights.
Don't know about San Francisco
thats-gold-jerry@reddit
The Mission for SF.
k8username@reddit
Nope: The hipsters who used to live in the mission moved to Vallejo.
thats-gold-jerry@reddit
Vallejo has a lot of art nowadays because it’s cheaper but it doesn’t have the cultural importance that SF or the Mission has. There’s more bands/music in the Mission than there is in the entire city of Vallejo. Come on now.
msabeln@reddit
In St. Louis, both the “hipster” and “high class” areas are in the region’s Central Corridor: draw a line from the Gateway Arch leading approximately westward. The hipsters will more be in the City proper, while the old money will be more in the County, but with considerable overlap.
mostie2016@reddit
Austin but it’s lost its hipster edge and become more rich in the last decade.
Finzinnati@reddit
My state (Ohio) is fairly large and I am not completely familiar with the local socioeconomic cultures of most of the other cities in my state.
But in my city specifically- Cincinnati: Indian Hill, Wyoming, Hyde Park would probably be the wealthiest/old money neighborhoods. I believe that Indian Hill is possibly the wealthiest village in the state.
Blue Ash, Mason, West Chester would be the upper middle class professionals family areas.
Over-the-Rhine, Northside, and more Dayton area- Yellow Springs would be more progressive & artsy.
I guess if we were classifying Ohio cities as an average, I would say Columbus is probably the young up & coming/young professional family city. The Ohio State University is in Columbus. Cleveland is the old industrial rust belt city undergoing a rebirth of sorts. People there are tough and gritty, but it’s also pretty diverse and has lots of culture. Cincinnati is the southernmost Northern city- there’s a good mix of rednecks, professionals, and artsy folk. There’s also strong historical and unique local culture with lots of influence from German and Irish immigrants. Southeastern Ohio doesn’t really have any major cities, but Athens is home of Ohio University- the general area is outdoorsy, folksy, and lots of small towns with an Appalachian flair. Up in the northwest of Ohio, we have Toledo. I know almost nothing about the city or the area, other than I’ve heard Toledo has a really nice zoo, and it’s pretty flat up there.
NotUntilTheFishJumps@reddit
Thank you for saying "The Ohio State University"😁 Gotta say it right!!
tegeus-Cromis_2000@reddit
Indiana:
Hipster: Broad Ripple and Fountain Square in Indianapolis, and Bloomington
Rich: Carmel
NotUntilTheFishJumps@reddit
Yup, I concur.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Downtown Denver and Boulder. And Aspen.
qu33nof5pad35@reddit
They’re mixed in together in NYC.
Cinisajoy2@reddit
The first Austin, the second The Woodlands.
Operator_Lion@reddit
I would say the High Class people are more in Highland Park than Woodlands
degobrah@reddit
The Woodlands?
If we're talking the Houston area you're looking first at Montrose and then the Heights, and then ever increasingly the East End
78723@reddit
I think the stereotype is Austin hipsters and Dallas high class. With Houston making the oil, and Dallas selling it.
Boopa0011@reddit
Yeah, these things exist side by side in almost every city I've ever lived in. In SF, hipsters live in the Mission and you can drive two miles up Van Ness Ave to Pacific Heights and there's the high class neighborhood. All those hipsters who lived in Williamsburg Brooklyn once upon a time were just a short subway ride away from one of the richest/"classiest" neighborhoods in the city, Brooklyn Heights.
Delicious_Oil9902@reddit
Well being in New York I’d say Williamsburg though the real hipsters are all moving to Philadelphia or queens or Harlem. High class I’d say is the upper east side or the West Village, maybe tribeca. In westchester county the hipsters are primarily in port Chester or Peekskill or tuckahoe, with the more well to do ones going towards Larchmont. High class is Bronxville, Scarsdale, and Rye. Greenwich too which isn’t far away.
Frosty-Escape-4497@reddit
The Hamptons suck if you aren't a rich person who owns a house out there.
There are other places for a getaway.
Delicious_Oil9902@reddit
I never mentioned the Hamptons anywhere in my post. I’ve been out there more times than I can count (Montauk) but even a lot of folks who summer out there are venturing to the north fork or MA. My summer home is in the NW Corner and we’ve been seeing a lot of ex Hampton summerers buying and renting as a change of pace
Frosty-Escape-4497@reddit
North Fork is nice. Upstate NY is better if wine country is your thing.
Delicious_Oil9902@reddit
Yeah it’s nice but far. I like the HRV area south of Albany in the Dutchess County area - Millbrook, Millerton, around those parts. There are a few vineyards but the wine is awful. Scenic though
Frosty-Escape-4497@reddit
The Finger Lakes has better wine.
Frosty-Escape-4497@reddit
Beacon, New York. America's coolest small town 90 minutes north of NYC.
You could see its pre-hipster days in Nobody's Fool. with Paul Newman.
Far-Lecture-4905@reddit
Some Rhode Island Representation.
Hipster: West End, Olneyville, Fox Point in Providence. Maybe parts of Bristol and Warren outside of Providence.
High Class: Newport, Barrington, East Greenwich and Blackstone Boulevard in Providence.
boulevardofdef@reddit
Glad Rhode Island weighed in! Mostly on your hipster assessment, but I don't know if I'd include Bristol, as much as I love it. For high class, I think Barrington and East Greenwich are too suburban in character to qualify as the Hamptons equivalent. I'd substitute parts of Narragansett and Westerly.
Far-Lecture-4905@reddit
There are parts of EG that are very fancy though.....I agree on Narragansett and Westerly and I also would add Jamestown to the mix when you bring it up.
boulevardofdef@reddit
Oh, I totally agree on Warren, it's just Bristol that doesn't feel hipster to me. Totally agreed on Jamestown, I can't believe I forgot that.
Quenzayne@reddit
I don’t know, really. I don’t think I’ve been in Florida long enough to be certain.
I’d imagine the real money is in West Palm Beach and out on Key Biscayne, although there’s tons of it around Miami and the southern parts of Tampa like Clearwater and St. Pete.
As far as hipster goes, I really have no clue. There’s a lot of tech startups in Orlando these days, so maybe that?
PrimaryHighlight5617@reddit
The hipsters are now 45+ with kids (or medically complex dogs).
Here in AZ, 100% scottsdale for "high class"
For "hip"? IDK. im not cool
fattoush_republic@reddit
Boston area
Hipsters: Jamaica Plain, Cambridge, Somerville
High class: Seaport (new money / rich people moving here now), Back Bay & Beacon Hill (old money)
Far-Lecture-4905@reddit
For MA more broadly with high class I would put in lots of the North Shore and Weston/ Wellesley
witchy12@reddit
My exact thoughts
sics2014@reddit
I was going to say Northampton for hipsters.
Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit
Easthampton for hipsters.
SolMagicka@reddit
Depends on the region. In Georgia, the upper class tend to form their own town/area outside of the city they would be part of. For example Brooklet is the rich area outside Statesboro. Atlanta has Buckhead.\ The "hipster" crowd tends to hang around universities like UGA or GA Tech.
44035@reddit
Hipsters: Ann Arbor
High class: There are rich suburbs around Detroit but rich isn't the same as having class
witchy12@reddit
Grosse Point definitely for "high class".
ThrowRA_72726363@reddit
For Nashville, high class = Brentwood, hipster = East nashville.
I haven’t lived in Minneapolis long but from what i gather high class = Edina and hipster = north loop
Zhuemann@reddit
North loop is too expensive to be hipster, mostly just young professionals.
ThrowRA_72726363@reddit
What’s more hipster? Dinky?
Somnifor@reddit
Whittier, Powderhorn, and Northeast. A lot of South Minneapolis is bohemian now to one degree or another.
Shnoookems@reddit
It’s changed a lot over the past 10 years. With massive apartments it has changed a lot.
theEWDSDS@reddit
St. Cloud maybe?
Thrillhouse763@reddit
Minneapolis high class = Edina, Wayzata, Orono, and Deephaven. Hipster = Northeast Minneapolis
Shnoookems@reddit
Northeast is very gentrified. Northeast is more hipster. Not in a bad way.
o93mink@reddit
High class is Belle Meade, not Brentwood. Brentwood is rich rednecks.
Frosty_Employment171@reddit
what's the difference?
original_greaser_bob@reddit
hipster: Missoula. from what i was told by long time Missoulians it used to be(till about 1960) a very red neck very blue collar logging town with a bit of a college vibe. now its very trendy and hipstery. its like a Portland training ground.
high class: Bozeman. very very rich. like fuck you money. out of state fuck you money. as in "fuck you i live here now and i am bulldozing your 150 year old 5 generation farm cause i need room to ride my horsey!"
RelativeIncompetence@reddit
All the Hollywood money is in Sun Valley
Pretty much half the population of the state is in the Treasure Valley around Boise, and it has a bit of everything.
Eagle has certainly had some hipster vibes, although a lot of the conservative older money is on the north side of Eagle as well.
IndependentEffect202@reddit
Rich people from all over the world travel to BOI just to go to Sun Valley, Id for skiing. I agree that Boise is the most hipster, but i also dont know what's going on up north. It's a different state up there.
RelativeIncompetence@reddit
Anything north of McCall might as well be another planet.
Objective-Tailor-561@reddit
McCall and Sun Valley, Idaho
IndependentEffect202@reddit
Ski towns. Agreed.
BigReception7685@reddit
For hipster, I'm thinking the greater Austin metro, especially the northwestern region bleeding into the hill country (specifically if you're talking high class, since that's where the rich people are). Central-ish area, if you'd rather nab more of the arts, tech and college scene.
Social elite, high-brow makes me think more of Dallas, however. But while they have a reputation for tech and elitism, they don't have the artsy fartsy 'hipster' reputation that Austin does.
TopperMadeline@reddit
The Highlands section of Louisville.
peacebypiece@reddit
Saint Louis:
Clayton, CWE and Ladue are fancy South City neighborhoods, downtown and Soulard neighborhoods give hipster vibes
Quirky_Commission_56@reddit
Definitely Austin.
Turdle_Vic@reddit
I mean…
Adorable_Dust3799@reddit
Some areas of los angeles and san francisco.
cohrt@reddit
I’d say both are probably in NYC.
ThePickleConnoisseur@reddit
For LA, the South Bay feels a bit like both. Lots of young people who are engineers. For high class the Hills. SF also meets both a lot
VinceP312@reddit
Those are two phrases I'd never think to link to one another.
tenehemia@reddit
Lake Oswego has the reputation for the wealthy, but most of the really wealthy have moved further out and near the big corps in the burbs.
For hipsters, there's a clear divide between tech/media and arty/culture hiptsters as in your description. The tech bros are out in Hillsoboro and surrounding areas. The classic artsy hipsters are absolutely everywhere. Portland, of course, but also the burbs and the coast and Salem and Ashland and Bend and everywhere in between.
pinniped90@reddit
Kansas...the high class is easy, it's Mission Hills.
Hipster is probably Lawrence if we're talking strictly in Kansas. The hipster neighborhoods in the KC area are generally on the Missouri side.
AffectionateWay5783@reddit
Boston is complicated. It’s “high class” to live downtown but also out in the suburbs. Hipster area is Alston I guess because there’s a lot of students. All of Boston is pretty “hip”.
Ghost-of-Black-47@reddit
High class is the North Shore suburbs of Chicago. Lake Forest, Winetka, Highland Park, etc. That’s where a lot of the old money is at. You’ve also got pockets of it in the city proper in places like Gold Coast and Lincoln Park.
As far as hipster, I feel like that sort of energy has diffused in recent years. The old hipster hoods of Chicago like Wicker Park and Logan Square have turned into “artsy yuppie” rather than “gritty artist” in vibe. And the creatives haven’t had a unified move to a new neighborhood. They’ve scattered between Bridgeport, Pilsen, Avondale, Humboldt Park (and to an increasing degree in very recent times, East Garfield Park). So the hipster energy is still there, but it’s too scattered to feel as robust as it once was.
GandalfTheGrey46@reddit
That’s crazy that they moved to Humboldt Park. That used to be a dangerous gang neighborhood. How is the crime there nowadays?
Ghost-of-Black-47@reddit
Crime across the city has dropped considerably since the 90s. In Humboldt specifically, it’s fallen off a cliff. There’s still a gang presence west of the park but east of it is pretty chilled out. I wouldn’t yet say I’d feel safe in the park late at night, but daytime I’m not concerned in the slightest.
Shnoookems@reddit
Seems pretty similar to Minneapolis on a smaller scale.
uresmane@reddit
Minnesota: Around lake Minnetonka in Wayzata/Excelsior/Tonka Bay, are the Hamptons, also bits of Edina. Hipsters are in Uptown Minneapolis, The North Loop, and Northeast mpls
LinuxLinus@reddit
In Seattle & Portland -- the nearest areas where you'd usually get hipsters -- the hipsters have been largely chased out by the high class. The Portland of Portlandia doesn't exist anymore, and it hasn't in a while. That's because Portland has become too expensive live in on a barista or a bartender's pay, unless you're willing to make substantial compromises about your standard of living. Hell, it's hard to live there on a government attorney's salary. Ask me how I know.
So the hipsters have largely decamped. Vancouver, WA, once a famously sleepy suburb of Portland, has become significantly more hip in the last 10-15 years. Others go further: a lot of the people who were once drawn to Portland and Seattle are now turning up in Pittsburgh, or North Carolina, or other places where housing is cheap.
getElephantById@reddit
I agree with you if we're talking about hipsters as bohemians and artists, which is how I understand the word.
But OP's definition is a little weird: "arty, tech, media, ad, culture, high-brow". If they mean that someone who works in tech or for an advertising company counts as a hipster, that sounds like 60% of the people in Ballard or Capitol Hill are hipsters.
LinuxLinus@reddit
Well, yeah. But that's the wrong definition of hipsters. Those people are anti-hipsters.
Flimsy_Equal8841@reddit
No idea
5hallowbutdeep@reddit
high class - Marin County, California
KillBologna@reddit
Williamburg in NYC. Allentown in Buffalo, Ny, and Southwedge and Park Ave Rochester NY.
El_Polio_Loco@reddit
Virginia high class, or at least big money, is predominantly Northern VA/DC related. It is very much not hip, it’s about as un-hip as it gets.
Richmond is more hipster, with Charlottesville being rich and preppy.
DoublePostedBroski@reddit
This has to do with cities and metro areas than states. There isn’t just one hipster area per state.
nine_of_swords@reddit
Birmingham:
Old money - Mountain Brook (Real estate examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), kiddo spillover goes across a lot of the rest of the southern Over the Mountain suburbs (Vestavia Hills, Greystone, Shoal Creek, Homewood, etc.), some older couples "downsize" to nearby Bham proper neighborhoods like Redmont Park. Most sprawling of the old money areas in the state, partially because it's rather "new" since it came about post emancipation and thus started accruing money as the older old money areas were set back by emancipation and regrouping.
Hipster area - tends to hop around, it was Five Points South back when the city was more of a ghost downtown, but as it rejuvenated a bit, some places have changed pretty noticeably on the hipster front. Avondale is probably the most widely appropriate answer at the moment, but there definitely looks to be other places coming up.
Mobile:
Old Money - Spring Hill area. Surprisingly hard to find a good video on the area, but it's an area around an old college in the oldest city in the state.
Hipster - Dauphin Street; but as a coastal city, there's a bit of that across the older bits. Wouldn't say it applies more inland though, so less in West Mobile/Airport Blvd areas.
Oddly enough, Fairhope is kinda both simultaneously just across the bay.
Huntsville:
Old Money - Twickenham; there's also some modest looking areas where Operation Paperclip peeps settled near Monte Sano that would probably be well off but just don't look it.
Hipster - I would associate that with Lowe's Mill, but I'm not that in touch with Huntsville; I could see that having changed since the area's grown so much.
Montgomery:
Old Money - Old Cloverdale? Of Alabama's biggest cities, Montgomery's the one that's prospered the least. It's old money might be at risk of dying out and I never hear of it. Mostly I hear of wealth moving to areas like Prattville, or more recently, Pike Road. But those are more new money-ish in function.
Hipster - Cottage Hill, with Old Cloverdale really at risk of getting overtaken by the hipster crowd.
thats-gold-jerry@reddit
In California, the hipster areas are Silver Lake and the Mission. The high class areas are, well there’s a lot. Malibu is one of the
Quirky-Invite7664@reddit
Maryland:
Old money: Chevy Chase Hipster: Takoma Park
MartyPhelps@reddit
Potomac
PhoneJazz@reddit
Takoma Park is more hippie than hipster.
pgcotype@reddit
I agree with you there. TP has been that way for decades.
Utterlybored@reddit
Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and environs)
OK_Stop_Already@reddit
Oxford, I guess for 'old money'.
There's areas on the coast where I live that have million dollar plantation style homes on the beach, but the city around them I wouldn't call high class or hipster.
Most 'hipster' city in my area is... maybe Ocean Springs?
To be clear, hipster and high class are like kind of opposite, in my mind.
mykepagan@reddit
Hoboken, Montclair, Ridgewood, JerseyCity…
jd732@reddit
Asbury Park & Somerset county. Montclair & Ridgewood is new money, just like Monmouth County.
mykepagan@reddit
I was thinking of adding Asbury Park… I’ve seen a Bentley parked there more than a few times.
This has been mind-boggling to me because I’m old and remember Asbury as a very neglected town.
El-Mas-Vetado@reddit
My state's richest town was designated a ghost town in the 50's.
The nearby mines had run out of minerals.
It was so poor and desperate that the technically illegal but tolerated prostitutes moved out.
Now, the Kardashians go on vacation there and Mitt Romney owns one of the many mansions.
jessek@reddit
Probably RiNo in Denver for hipsters. For rich people Cherry Creek and Aspen.
Ghost_Turtle@reddit
Buckhead in Atlata
theEWDSDS@reddit
There's a reason we call Edina cakeeaters
Crazycatlover@reddit
Denver for both.
Dallas2houston120@reddit
In Dallas it’s Deep Ellum for the hipsters and Highland Park for the “high class”
Pugilist12@reddit
Pittsburgh.
Hipsters: Lawrenceville
High class: Shadyside/Squirrel Hill
Appropriate-Win3525@reddit
I feel dirty poor just driving through Shadyside on the way to my doctor's appointment. If I ever had to live in the city and hit the lotto, I wouldn't mind living there. Otherwise, I'm fine living in the woods outside the city.
SenorBlackChin@reddit
Santa Fe, NM for both.
mangobibi@reddit
Or Taos, NM
LockNessCrotchMonst@reddit
Dude, Santa Fe is kind of a shit hole. Did I miss the cool parts?
SenorBlackChin@reddit
Upper Canyon, Hyde Park Rd, Old Taos Highway. You can’t usually see over the high walls or drive past the gates. International big money up in there.
RhinoPillMan@reddit
Brickell, Star Island, Wynwood for the artsy hipster tourists, Indian Creek Village, Coral Gables. Take your pick. Except they’re mostly all also surrounded by abject poverty right down the street.
bunjywunjy@reddit
The hipsters are in Madison and the richies are in the Milwaukee suburbs
EllieIsDone@reddit
The gay areas of cities.
In Houston it’s montrose and upper Kirby. Magical place.
Get_Breakfast_Done@reddit
The Heights too, or not anymore?
My friends live in Montrose and I was so impressed with the neighbourhood
DogsBikesAndMovies@reddit
We don't really have a lot of hipsters in Seattle, though I wouldn't be offended if anybody called me one. It's just that I've lived in a city with lots of actual hipsters (Richmond, VA) and Seattle ain't like that. We do have lots of artists here, and they tend to prefer Capital Hill (no surprise that that is our "gay" neighborhood). Belltown is just north of downtown Seattle. It's actually an incredibly dangerous neighborhood. If you're ever a tourist in Seattle, do no go to Belltown.
However, the people who have high salaries live in apartments with 24hr security in Belltown. You can't get into their parking garage withough a key fob. And once in there, they're safe. The people at risk of violence in Belltown are tourists going to one of the many local bars. Locals can spot tourists from a mile away, and the people with bad intentions make you their target. I'm not just talking robbery, but murder. If you ain't a Seattleite, stay the fuck out of Belltown, for your own safety.
The "high class" areas are actually our suburbs. Sammamish, for example, is incredibly affluent. That's just one of a few.
DOMSdeluise@reddit
River Oaks and Memorial are the rich people neighborhoods here in Houston. East Downtown is the area that is currently gentrifying with cool young people afaik.
VeronicaMarsupial@reddit
Hipster: Portland inner Eastside.
High class: Portland west hills.
FoggyGoodwin@reddit
Austin has both, home to several rich individuals and known for its hip weirdness. IDK which neighborhoods.
Altruistic_Error_832@reddit
Old Money in Minnesota is in the western suburbs of Minneapolis. Edina, Eden Prairie, Plymouth, Minnetonka.
For hipster? Like the East end of Minneapolis/West End of Saint Paul. The two cities kind of intermingle around like the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood just off of the main University of Minnesota campus.
JimBones31@reddit
High class is Camden and Cape Elizabeth.
Hipster is Portland
Red_Beard_Rising@reddit
Chicagoland.
Flashy-Specific-4083@reddit
Right? And small pockets in university towns like Champaign.
TankDestroyerSarg@reddit
Chicago River north to Lake Bluff, west to Des Plaines River.
Red_Beard_Rising@reddit
Typically. As with all things, outliers exist also. Hyde Park as an example.
BUBBAH-BAYUTH@reddit
Charlotte is too big to really put a label on, it’s got every kind of neighborhood tbh.
I think Cary is known for being super bougie.
I’d say Asheville is too but they’re also super hippie while also having very very wealthy residents.
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