Portland and Seattle both have lots of these people.
Cities to Avoid?
I didn’t see Tempe or Tucson, AZ.
The Hampden section of Baltimore? One of the few remaining white enclaves in the city, it used to be solid working-class. Now being gentrified and old run-down row houses with postage-stamp backyards are going for $300K and 8% city property taxes. Accompanying that are horrible city schools, just as a bonus.
I gag on all of them. I nominate Charlottesville Virginia to the gag list.
No Burlington, Vermont?
I don’t get Williamsburg. It still looks poor to me. It’s an old factory town and a lot of those factories aren’t renovated. I will say the Jewish section of Williamsburg is amazing - but not hip - more like the 1950s.
Williamsburg was the setting for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - and it looks pretty much the same to me.
I just knew Asheville, NC would be on the list.
Some years back, the NC Republican Party held their convention in that hive of hirsute hippies. I did attend, but was baffled by the party’s choice of that town. To say we were not welcomed with open arms is an understatement.
Austin is full of these loses.