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Oakland has replaced SF as hipster city


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2014 Nov 20, 1:05am   1,151 views  6 comments

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-20/oakland-rents-outpace-san-francisco-as-hipsters-relocate.html

Bay with the fastest-growing rents in the U.S. isnt San Francisco. Oakland, long synonymous with crime and blight, is attracting businesses and residents priced out of its more famous neighbor to the West and drawn to an increasingly vibrant scene. This is one of the few places Ive ever been where on a daily basis you see changes, said Lucy Flood, a 35-year-old freelance writer who rents work space in a converted Mazda dealership. Paintings hang advising, Hipsters Only and LGBT Only. San Francisco rents are so high. Its cheaper to be here. Its considered edgy and hip and cool....

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1   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Nov 20, 1:48am  

Hipster cities soon become unaffordable for hip people.

2   Ceffer   2014 Nov 20, 2:22am  

You mean there are enough trust fund brats to populate Oakland, too?

3   MAGA   2014 Nov 20, 4:11am  

What exactly is a "hipster"? Something tells me that I am not in that category.

4   zzyzzx   2014 Nov 20, 4:23am  

If Oakland is for hipsters now, where did the blacks go?

6   Ceffer   2023 Jan 8, 12:00pm  

Join the hipster clone farm to feel unique. Hipster is for the soys that didn't get fat.

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