Grab a PBR, a ukelele, an ironic t-shirt, some beard balm, and eyeglasses with thick vintage frames, because you’re going to hipster town. Well, actually we’re going to 25 hipster cities. MoveHub named the most hipster cities in the world and the results may surprise you.
MoveHub ranked 446 cities across 20 countries to determine which places were more hipster than others.
The methodology did not include counting the annual total of kazoo orchestra concerts, how many pickled beets stores per square mile, most bow ties sold, most mumblecore films rented or most spirulina cold-pressed juice smoothies consumed.What they did do was examine cities with a population over 200,000. During their analysis to find the most hipster city they counted 2,834 record stores, 7,772 vegan eats, 14,588 tattoo studios, 15,549 vintage boutiques, and 93,203 coffee shops. Based on the International Hipster Index, Movehub determined that Brighton, U.K. is the most hipster city in the world for 2018. Brighton scored a hipster score of 8.1632, barely edging out Portland, Oregon which scored 8.1631. In third place was Salt Lake City at 7.8527, Seattle was fourth at 7.0290, and Lisbon rounded out the top five with a 6.9437 hipster rating.
