Just saw my first real life hipster

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(01-01-2017, 08:23 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Ranked 9th highest cost of living in the US.  Sad when you consider the population size versus the remainder of the top 10.

I have a friend who lived for a couple years on an island north of Seattle. Said outside the city, it was a lot more affordable, almost as cheap as living in Kentucky.

(01-02-2017, 12:42 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: Lived there(Seattle)from late 80s to mid 90s.

Cost of living was much lower until the migration of California residents began(they were considered hipsters BTW).

It was not a trendy place when I moved there.  Some granola hippie/some rednecks/some average people.

Yes, you read that correctly.  There were and probably still are rednecks there.  Just like anywhere else.

The perception of Ohio is we could be Iowa.  The same to them.  Farmers and corn.


The other thing I found odd is that a lot of people on the west coast think New York state is New York City.

All skyscrapers, bustling streets, and traffic jams.

One time I told someone I had an uncle who owned a dairy farm in New York...  and he scratched his head.

"Where do they keep the cows in the city?"  LMAO



Lastly...I guarantee you scan certain areas ANYWHERE that has a metropolis and you'll find a "hipster".

Talked to a guy at the Space Needle (he started the conversation and seemed pretty happy to have someone to talk to who wasn't Asian). He was a native, said things were good until the 90s when they had an "Asian invasion," said people from Japan, China, etc., thought Seattle was a cheap place to vacation. That kind of surprised me considering I paid $15 for what amounted to a ham sandwich at a place near the airport, and dinner at the Space Needle was a few hundred.