Providence makes most hipster metro list

PROVIDENCE IS THE seventh "most hipster" metro in the country, according to Infogroup. / COURTESY INFOGROUP
PROVIDENCE IS THE seventh "most hipster" metro in the country, according to Infogroup. / COURTESY INFOGROUP

PROVIDENCE – Providence was awarded seventh place on Infogroup’s list of the Top 10 Most Hipster Metro Areas.
Hipsters are a subculture consisting of urban, affluent, middle class youth with a taste for thrift-store fashion, organic and artisanal food, and alternative lifestyles with an abject abhorrence for mainstream culture.
To come up with the list, Infogroup used its business database of more than 15 million records, and identified metro areas which most closely identified with businesses providing products and services appealing to hipsters.
Such businesses that attract hipsters are microbreweries; record/tape/CD retail establishments; music dealers; local, non-chain coffee shops; thrift shops; bicycle dealers; tattoo parlors; and music and live entertainment venues.
Providence, which Infogroup refers to as the “Divine City,” said tattoo parlors represent 24 percent of the city’s businesses of interest; music and live entertainment, and coffee shops, 19 percent each; thrift stores, 13 percent; and bicycle shops, 9 percent.
According to Infogroup, Brown University attracts such non-conformists from all over the nation to receive an Ivy League education while the city allows them to satisfy their nontraditional tastes. The provider describes Brown University hipsters as “Pulitzer Prize winning writers at the cafeteria’s Meatless Mondays.”
Seattle; Portland, Ore.; and Denver hold the top three places respectively on the list.
Infogroup is a big data, analytics and marketing services provider based in Nebraska.

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