![]() ![]() They even included the Webster definition of “hipster” in the article as some kind of trite rhetorical device. Their criteria for an entire subculture is literally the frequency of overpriced organic kale and clothing divided by area with the added bonus of the perpetuation of stereotypes. per square mile) to determine how hip a city was. ![]() ![]() coffee shops, vintage shops, food trucks, farmer’s markets etc. 1 “Hippest Hispter Neighborhood in America.” In addition to the redundant title, their methodology is especially appalling. Last year, Forbes named Silver Lake the no. I’m playing two sides of a fucked up dichotomy. But now I’m 21 and I also subscribe to hipster youth culture and I don’t know what to make of that either. Families that have lived on my street longer than I have been alive are now forced to move further east due to the increasing cost of living. was filled with junkies and prostitutes, not pseudo-glam frozen yogurt-eating Instagram celebrities. James Franco didn’t own a house here and you never had a celebrity sighting on Sunset Blvd. The rent was cheap and the pupusas for sale on the corner were cheaper. Like any victim of gentrification, Silver Lake, Sunset Junction and Los Feliz were once the stomping grounds for struggling families, not struggling actors. Not the “I can’t pay my rent because I’m a musician and spend my money on Camel Blue cigarettes” poor that is now so familiar in the city by the reservoir. I grew up in the midst of the gentrification of Los Angeles and I don’t know what to make of it. ![]()
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