Forbes Magazine weighs in on hipster link baiting trend

Travel + Leisure Magazine was the first to do it, now Forbes is the latest unlikely print publication to dip its well-manicured toes into the seething waters of hipster-philia. Informative & timely journalism or just a bald-faced chunk of link bait? Who cares, it’s an occasion to raise a brow and glance downnose at hipsters!

First let’s give writer Morgan Brennan credit for recognizing that the neighborhood is the correct atomic unit for hipster censusing, not the city. Slight deduction for putting both “hippest” and “hipster” in the title, which may have been ordered from on high by the Forbes SEO-czar, but I mean come on. Anyway, on to the article.

Oh noes, it’s a gallery – I hate paging through these things, here’s the tl;dr version:

1. Silver Lake, Los Angeles CA

2. Mission District, San Francisco CA

3. Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

4. Wicker Park, Chicago IL

5. Pearl District, Portland OR

6. H Street Corridor, Washington DC

7. East Austin, Austin TX

8. Capital Hill, Seattle WA

9. The Uptown, Oakland CA

10. Warehouse District, New Orleans LA

11. Downtown Portland, Portland ME

12. North Loop, Minneapolis MN

13. North Park, San Diego CA

14. Northern Liberties, Philadelphia PA

15. Hampden, Baltimore MD

16. Little Five Points, Atlanta GA

17. Lower Highlands, Denver CO

18. Allston-Brighton, Boston MA

19. Wynwood, Miami FL

20. Lower Westheimer, Houston TX