Last week I wrote a blog entry complaining about ThiftyHipster.com’s slighting of St. Paul. One reader says “thanks for highlighting the much overlooked and underestimated STP,” but another would just as soon see Mill City hipsters stay on their own side of the river. (And the hits keep on coming: “Don’t make me laugh, St. Paul,” begins a comment on this very story.)
If we were to be suddenly overrun by outsider hipsters looking for the next cool thing, we’d lose our spots at our locals, which are already doing well, thank you very much. St. Paul has many creatives, eccentrics, college students, and a diversity of settled ethnic communities with interesting restaurants and shops. Those of us who live here know this. Those of you who don’t, I’m not telling you where all the “hip” stuff is, you can find that for yourself, which should be easy, it’s everywhere…Of course, you need vision, a sense of adventure and imagination to live here. And that should be the first requirement of being a “hipster.”
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