Epic WTF

Ive been looking at property in detroit for shits n giggles, the size and quality of houses you can get for about £10k is mindblowing. Stuff that would cost £1m in a decent location.

You're not the only one. A lot of people I know have talked about moving there (and a lot of people I don't know have).

http://austin.culturemap.com/news/life/02-21-12-00-05-the-new-hipster-cities-of-america/

Forget Austin, forget Brooklyn, forget Portland, forget Silver Lake. What are the cities on the verge of hipsterfication right now?

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What do young and creative urbanites love most in this world? Being on the forefront of a scene — what better place to do that than Detroit, Michigan, a city that's slowly bootstrapping itself up from the PITS OF HADES. Within cities that have lost everything, hipsters favorite second thing in this world emerges — ruin porn. Add a frosting layer of adaptive reuse and you got yourself one sweet hipster cupcake.

  This city has become a newspaper darling with stories of young artists,  thinkers and entrepreneurs taking advantage of Detroit's low cost of  living and real estate. [The NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/fashion/the-young-and-entrepreneurial-move-to-downtown-detroit-pushing-its-economic-recovery.html?pagewanted=all) compares  Detroit's rebirth (more like slow expulsion from the womb) to Berlin's  rise and fall (and rise again) in the 1990s, and the [LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-detroit-20111113,0,3242102.story?page=1) insinuates  that if up-and-coming artists want to be seen, Detroit is where it's  at. Artists have been taking over abandoned warehouse spaces or homes  and building them into studios or public art pieces — Detroit is the  place to go if you're looking for street cred you really don't deserve.