DC neighborhood recommendations? Where do the artisanal-jerky-making hipsters live?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with downtown silver spring! We fall into the "tattooed parents" category, but there's overlap with the hipster jerky makers. Love it here.

We're tattooed parents in the East Silver Spring neighborhood and there are tons of folks like us here. Urban Winery and Urban Butchery, both a few blocks away, probably fall into the artisanal jerky making category. Lots of artists, journalists, nonprofit types, plus they are putting in a new ArtSpace in the old police station on Sligo. You are also walking distance to CREATE Arts Studio, Maryland Ballet Theatre, and Roundhouse Theatre.

You've never lived in LA or SF then. Silver spring is nothing like silverlake. It's bland, depressing and void of anything interesting. I'm positive you are cooler than most of DC and definitely Montgomery county but silver spring is not what op is looking for.

And you've obviously never been to silver spring.

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The advertising for the new Cathedral Commons 'hood seems pretty hip.

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Anonymous wrote:Adams morgan

All Dcps schools suck so you may want to take that into consideration

not true. stop it.

Well the ones that don't suck serve areas that aren't exactly known for their hipster population. So there is that.

Mt Pleasant. Done.

Eh, Mt. Pleasant is mostly limosine liberal, NPR-loving hippies with high net worths pretending to be poor. And grad students in group houses and Latinos in low income housing. This is not the demographic OP is looking for.

disagree w/ PP... I'm from LA, lived in Los Feliz 10 years ago. Mt P is definitely the closest DC comes.

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Anonymous wrote:The advertising for the new Cathedral Commons 'hood seems pretty hip.

I really hope you're joking. But in case you're not: no, not really. And that's not the neighborhood the "artisanal-jerky-making hipsters" would be living in anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Adams morgan

All Dcps schools suck so you may want to take that into consideration

not true. stop it.

Well the ones that don't suck serve areas that aren't exactly known for their hipster population. So there is that.

Mt Pleasant. Done.

Eh, Mt. Pleasant is mostly limosine liberal, NPR-loving hippies with high net worths pretending to be poor. And grad students in group houses and Latinos in low income housing. This is not the demographic OP is looking for.

Whoa! Way to stereotype almost every ethnic group in a single post.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with downtown silver spring! We fall into the "tattooed parents" category, but there's overlap with the hipster jerky makers. Love it here.

We're tattooed parents in the East Silver Spring neighborhood and there are tons of folks like us here. Urban Winery and Urban Butchery, both a few blocks away, probably fall into the artisanal jerky making category. Lots of artists, journalists, nonprofit types, plus they are putting in a new ArtSpace in the old police station on Sligo. You are also walking distance to CREATE Arts Studio, Maryland Ballet Theatre, and Roundhouse Theatre.

You've never lived in LA or SF then. Silver spring is nothing like silverlake. It's bland, depressing and void of anything interesting. I'm positive you are cooler than most of DC and definitely Montgomery county but silver spring is not what op is looking for.

And you've obviously never been to silver spring.

I've spent a fair amount of time in both silver spring and silver lake. To equate them to each other is laughable

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Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

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Anonymous wrote:Adams morgan

All Dcps schools suck so you may want to take that into consideration

not true. stop it.

Well the ones that don't suck serve areas that aren't exactly known for their hipster population. So there is that.

Mt Pleasant. Done.

Eh, Mt. Pleasant is mostly limosine liberal, NPR-loving hippies with high net worths pretending to be poor. And grad students in group houses and Latinos in low income housing. This is not the demographic OP is looking for.

disagree w/ PP... I'm from LA, lived in Los Feliz 10 years ago[i]. Mt P is definitely the closest DC comes.

If the last time you actually lived in LA was a decade ago, then you have absolutely no idea what Los Feliz is like today for those who live there. Los Angeles has undergone an incredible (creative, vibrant, wonderful) transformation in the last ten years.

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Anonymous wrote:Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Lol nailed it

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I hear Sodosopa is lovely.

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I think dt silver spring. Or maybe takoma park. When we moved here from Brooklyn, I thought silver spring was too bland and takoma park too smug. However, after spending more time in DC... I think both of those places are more interesting, and have more families "like us." It is funny and sad, because I never wanted to live with my own kind... Until I moved here. There are a lot of really sincere, easily offended and not very interesting families in DC. Go for a neighborhood with an art supply store and some yoga studios, it will be the best you can do.

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Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Dear pp,

Why do you feel the need to put people down who don't make the same choice as you do? After all if we all wanted to live in Bethesda or Potomac or wherever you claim is 'the best' there might not have been room for you! I live in DSS and love it. But, I recognize the fact that not everyone likes Silver Spring and that's okay. Yes, we *could* afford to live in Bethesda but we choose not to do so! Why is this so hard to believe?

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^^^Hilarious how you back up the pp!

"We could afford Bethesda but we choose not to live there." That's another category of SS residents who *feel compelled* to tell everyone they *can afford Bethesda* but choose not to live there.

[Anonymous]

Well, PP I beg to differ!

First of all. You insult all Silver Spring residents by saying that people only live here because they can't afford living anywhere else. Where is your proof? Is it true because you say it is? Exactly how am I "proving the pp's point by defending our decision?"

We obviously aren't going to be besties and show you our bank accounts. Trust me, we could afford to live in Bethesda, but we don't choose to do so. It's just not our style. Shocking, I know! You will just have to take my word and deal with it.

We get it. You don't like Silver Spring and wouldn't live here. I don't bash Bethesda but maybe it is because I am secure in our decision and still happy to live in Silver Spring!

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Anonymous wrote:Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Dear pp,

Why do you feel the need to put people down who don't make the same choice as you do? After all if we all wanted to live in Bethesda or Potomac or wherever you claim is 'the best' there might not have been room for you! I live in DSS and love it. But, I recognize the fact that not everyone likes Silver Spring and that's okay. Yes, we *could* afford to live in Bethesda but we choose not to do so! Why is this so hard to believe?

Dear silver spring personality type number 3

I don't believe you.