So most of the people in SF? Well, everyone who works for a tech company?
The hipsters Iāve met work at restaurants, bars, coffee places, nonprofits, libraries, and hipster-friendly retail and service small businesses such as bike shops and barbers. Iāve met a few at tech companies but not many.
Iāll tell my 72 y.o. husband. Heāll love it!
The apartment we stayed in in Brooklyn had seven bikes hanging on the walls, five in the bedroom and two in the entry way. No car.
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Your criteria describe all of my friends that work at major tech companies in SF haha
And pretty much everyone Iāve observed when hanging out at Google campuses with friends.
Thereās no age limit baby!
Please donāt call me ābaby.ā
I donāt remember seeing any hipster types either of the times I interviewed at Google. If I hadnāt known it was a tech company, Iād have guessed I was on the campus of a world-class university.
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Please donāt respond to my posts.
Another hotbed of hipsters!
Well just saying your criteria certainly define Google employees. No cars, good beer, food etcā¦ ride bikes when in SF.
Idk what other criteria youāre using haha
I donāt believe you have control over that.
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if you ever wondered ā and theres no reason you should ā why i think āhipsterā is meaningless, may i present the posts in this thread, made by a series of self appointed baal shem tovs of hipster identification.
yāall carry binoculars and little notebooks, too?
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I donāt have a definition, itās just a style of conformity. I go into a store or bar and 90% of the people there seem to be following a strict dress code. Sorry, maāam, you canāt come in here without a tattoo.
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oh bullshit.
Of course no one would ever say that.
I went to hear a friendās band play one time at a storefront art space. Every guy except me and the band had blue jeans and a long-sleeved plaid shirt, and every woman had a vintage-looking sleeveless summer dress (showing off their tattoos) and cowboy boots. It was so surreal that I looked around the room trying to find an exception.
I presume they donāt feel like the conformists I perceive them as.
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Then I donāt believe you have control over my posts.
Feels like you can say that about any place you walk into to me; the dress code just changes from place to place.
o.k., robert, iām not going to go round and round with you on this anymore.
my experience runs contrary to yours.
iāve never been to a club, bar or restaurant where the patrons are
dressed so uniformly.
i havenāt heard the word āconformistā used so much since elementary school.
when iām eating and drinking (or listening to live music), what everyone else
is wearing doesnāt mean much to me.
when i read the word āhipster,ā it doesnāt tell me much.
thatās me at this moment in time.
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Iām almost 70 y.o. and a respectful term for me isnāt ābaby.ā Not even āgirl.ā
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Most places I go people are dressed all different ways. Thatās why itās startling to see such uniformity. Though come to think of it Iāve see that only in Oakland.
When we were in San Diego last June we saw a couple of places where all the women were blonde and wearing heels, all the guys were clean-shaven with untucked shirttails, and they were all tan.