East Coast Small-Town with a Hipster Vibe

[Anonymous]

It sounds like maybe you want nice with a patina of quaint but not really hipster?

[Anonymous]

Annapolis.

[Anonymous]

Charleston, SC or Savannah, GA
Or you could do one of the small beaches around either
Not as likely to have a centrally located WF but nice places for a vacation.
Wilmington, NC is great but has a very small downtown area--so, definitely cool and quaint but outside of that area is a lot of strip malls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Willmington NC

+1

I would caution not to stray too far from the beaten path. You'd be surprised how 'Southern' most of NC really is... definitely no hipster vibe there.

[Anonymous]

Small town with a Whole Foods?

Can the Whole Foods be nearby?

Bar Harbor, ME

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Willmington NC

+1

I would caution not to stray too far from the beaten path. You'd be surprised how 'Southern' most of NC really is... definitely no hipster vibe there.

While driving through North Carolina we saw some crude highway billboards like, 'I got crabs at Dicks'. Lots of redneck vibes in NC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asheville nc

+1

[Anonymous]

I was going to say Lenox or Northhampton MA. Or there's a place in Vermont...I always get the towns in Vermont mixed up, though.
But real hipster places definitely don't have Chipotle or Starbucks. They have fancy coffee places named after a guy that lives there that bakes vegan scones and grinds and roasts his own coffee on site. They wouldn't be caught dead drinking starbucks.
If you just want to make sure you can eat a taco and a latte, that's easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Small town with a Whole Foods?

Can the Whole Foods be nearby?

Bar Harbor, ME

If OP can't handle the flight to Ithaca, then Bar Harbor must be out. Most of these places are out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Lenox or Northhampton MA. Or there's a place in Vermont...I always get the towns in Vermont mixed up, though.
But real hipster places definitely don't have Chipotle or Starbucks. They have fancy coffee places named after a guy that lives there that bakes vegan scones and grinds and roasts his own coffee on site. They wouldn't be caught dead drinking starbucks.
If you just want to make sure you can eat a taco and a latte, that's easy.

In my opinion, he most hipster place in NE that also has SB, Chipotle, and WF is Providence, although I don't know why you would go to Providence and go to those places-there are great independent coffee places and great restaurants (including really good dominican, venezualan, and cape verdean places).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was hoping to avoid big cities and a flight out to the west coast.

I really want something like the small towns you see on TV shows like Gilmore Girls or The Vampire Diaries. Except on the water and preferably I can find a condo/VRBO townhouse that is on top of a Chipotle.

Something like this?

So you can race back upstairs to the bathroom when the E. coli hits...smart thinking!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Lenox or Northhampton MA. Or there's a place in Vermont...I always get the towns in Vermont mixed up, though.
But real hipster places definitely don't have Chipotle or Starbucks. They have fancy coffee places named after a guy that lives there that bakes vegan scones and grinds and roasts his own coffee on site. They wouldn't be caught dead drinking starbucks.
If you just want to make sure you can eat a taco and a latte, that's easy.

+1

Otherwise I suggest Marion, MA but no Starbucks or Chipotle.

[Anonymous]

I feel like this is a bet and the OP wants DCUM to guess the right city. Like she is arguing with a friend that Portland is totally not hipster but if DCUM says it is...

[Anonymous]

Asheville NC, very hipster awesome food scene.
Also another vote for Wilmington, NC- you can go on a walking tour of the Dawson Creek filming locations. Also close to beaches.

[Anonymous]

What a weird post.

All places have groceries, coffee, and Mexican.

Learn to seek out independent places when you visit somewhere.

All suggestions have been good.