What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

From todays online telegraph thinking-man's section...

Why-this-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop

urgh. Alex Proud needs to be taken out the back and shot.

super rich cunt who did exactly what he is chastising. Opened a shit bar/gallery with rich pops money but in camden.

hes a grade a fucking tool.

in other news the only people ive seen wearing carhartt and redwings so far in nyc are workmen.

i live in brooklyn but havent been to williamsburg yet but i gather everyone has left there now and are all in bushwick/flatbush/bedstuy

Very low class prossies plying their trade opposite the Ten Bells after dark, Brick Lane market was amazing back then, a treasure trove... Sleaze central...

It was a great place cuz it was so cheap, loads of my slacker musician/artist mates lived there... Old pubs, cheap booze, broken down venues that let you put gigs/clubs on... Good times...

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lol

i live in brooklyn but havent been to williamsburg yet but i gather everyone has left there now and are all in bushwick/flatbush/bedstuy

Sunnyside and next up will be woodside.
Hoboken is hipster central as well these days.

That article pleases me because it says Peckham is dead. Maybe now I can convince the landlord not to throw the rent up 16% ¬_¬

Can't wait for Brooklyn's gentrification to spread into Cypress Hill. Shit's gonna kick off.

Hi by the way, first post!

Cypress Hill - When The Shit Goes Down (Extended Version) - YouTube

in other news the only people ive seen wearing carhartt and redwings so far in nyc are workmen.

i live in brooklyn but havent been to williamsburg yet but i gather everyone has left there now and are all in bushwick/flatbush/bedstuy

Can't wait for Brooklyn's gentrification to spread into Cypress Hill. Shit's gonna kick off.

Hi by the way, first post!

My friend lives in Brooklyn and has to choose between the barbershop with the single estate coffee or the barbershop with the craft beer when he goes to get an expensive beard trim. They are both on his block so the choice is hard.

It is sad, because here in Berlin the only expensive beard trimming place only has mineral water. Germans need to get on the ball when it comes to gentrification.

i know someone from Brooklyn too!

+10 scene points 4 me

i got cousins that lived in greenpoint, then moved to bedstuy when it got to expensive
#inb4hipsters

At the risk of further sounding like a tosser, I live between Hackney and Brooklyn (WBurg or Bushwick), but I have to say there are far more wankers in Brooklyn.

Riding bikes is much more enjoyable there though.

I now live on brick lane.

do your worst

What the shit made you want to live there? First pick of rattle-can frames? Trololol

Very low class prossies plying their trade opposite the Ten Bells after dark, Brick Lane market was amazing back then, a treasure trove... Sleaze central...

It was a great place cuz it was so cheap, loads of my slacker musician/artist mates lived there... Old pubs, cheap booze, broken down venues that let you put gigs/clubs on... Good times...

My formative late teen/early twenties were spent in that neck of the woods. I lived in a flat above what is now the uke shop on Hanbury street in '98-'99. It was a fun, cool place to hang out and live but it was still also very much "just another slightly scuzzy bit of London'. As were all the other places we could afford to live such as Finsbury Park, Hackney Central, Haggerston, Dalston, Tufnell Park, Stokie etc. It's a theme park now. The new Leicester Square.

I used to live on Princelet street just off brick lane in one of the old georgian houses.
My dad brought it 20 years ago. sold up at the right time

living in the tenderloin (SF), I wish there was a little more gentrification.
it gets annoying walking up the street everyday being offered all sorts of drugs, watching people smoking crack and generally pissing/shitting on the streets.

on the plus side, we have some fucking awesome dive bars that don't cost an arm and a leg for a beer (although you might loose said arm/leg on the way home)

What the shit made you want to live there? First pick of rattle-can frames? Trololol

I'm not 100% sure. Brixton was pretty similar though.

^^Sounds good to me.

living in the tenderloin (SF), I wish there was a little more gentrification.
it gets annoying walking up the street everyday being offered all sorts of drugs, watching people smoking crack and generally pissing/shitting on the streets.

on the plus side, we have some fucking awesome dive bars that don't cost an arm and a leg for a beer (although you might loose said arm/leg on the way home)

I grew up in the country/small town in Northern California. I escaped to SF when I was young. I remember walking up Leavenworth (in the Tenderloin) for the first time trying to get to Golden Era* (RIP). A dude asked me if I wanted an "outfit". I said "no" as I felt I looked pretty good, and I didn't trust his sartorial taste.

Cool story eh, bro?

*Vegan vietnamese restaurant. semi religious cultish. good lemon 'chicken'.

if peckham is the new 'ditch,perhaps old kent rd may change
used to be great for dive bars and toe to toe fighting on a friday night

one choice one springs to mind, was in the downstairs of a kebab shop
for some reason the proprietor always had the uncanny ability to go round and take the punters glasses before it got raided

i know someone from Brooklyn too!

+10 scene points 4 me

He's too old to give you hipster points.

My formative late teen/early twenties were spent in that neck of the woods. I lived in a flat above what is now the uke shop on Hanbury street in '98-'99. It was a fun, cool place to hang out and live but it was still also very much "just another slightly scuzzy bit of London'. As were all the other places we could afford to live such as Finsbury Park, Hackney Central, Haggerston, Dalston, Tufnell Park, Stokie etc. It's a theme park now. The new Leicester Square.

The saddest thing is the only affordable places left are Edmonton and Forest Gate. And they're not even scuzzy - just shit.

The saddest thing is the only affordable places left are Edmonton and Forest Gate. And they're not even scuzzy - just shit.

That is the way it is everywhere I have any knowledge of that is gentrified much. SF has the Excelsior. NY has Queens. America has Detroit. Berlin has Steiglitz.