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January 22, 2007
Home Buying for Hipsters
Hey, somebody's gonna have to buy all those waterfront condos.
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Broker disguised as educational workshop.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 22, 2007 9:35 AM
it isnt really diguised as her email address is openly displayed. And, just because it is a broker, it can certainly still be educational... although it may not be.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 22, 2007 9:39 AM
once you buy a home, you are no longer a hipster. you're a mortgage holding wiener like the rest of us.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 22, 2007 9:59 AM
9:59, I was thinking the same thing, especially about that "waterfront condo" comment with the pic: if you're attending a "Home Buying for Hipsters" meeting, doesn't that essentially make you a non-hipster?
Posted by: PiDiQuiQui at January 22, 2007 10:22 AM
"Sometimes I Feel Like I'm The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood"
www.theonion.com/content/node/51852
Posted by: Kevin Walsh at January 22, 2007 10:30 AM
Wow, a groovy new acronym: MHW (mortgage-holding wiener). Agree, MHW-ness is utterly incompatible with hipsterosity, even if you dress your baby up like a Ramone.
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at January 22, 2007 10:31 AM
Good Lord. Don't they realize that hipsters enjoy whining about having to live 3 to a studio and not being able to pay their rent? Talk about not identifying your target market!
Posted by: Queens Crapper at January 22, 2007 11:04 AM
Kevin, that article was hilarious.
Favorite quote:
"Sure, it's an hour from my day job and right next to a stinky canal and a power station, but that's the whole charm—it keeps the yuppies out."
Posted by: PiDiQuiQui at January 22, 2007 11:05 AM
this website is not half as bad as curbed. the comments aren't half as mean-spirited either.
Posted by: Queensfinest at January 22, 2007 11:13 AM
They had a previous one of these @ Black Betty back a couple mos ago. I had a friend who went and said it was so pathetically lame. Very pretentious. What are they going to tell you? Get a loan, get your daddy/mommy money, or your credit sucks, work on it? OK, bad attitude, but that's the basics.
Posted by: jbjb at January 22, 2007 11:33 AM
Somebody please go to this thing just to take a photo for Brownstoner of the kind of people who would go to this thing.
Posted by: Bob999 at January 22, 2007 12:14 PM
""Sure, it's an hour from my day job and right next to a stinky canal and a power station, but that's the whole charm—it keeps the yuppies out.""
Holy shit, it's Greenpoint!
Posted by: Bill_Stickers at January 22, 2007 1:15 PM
11:04, nail on the head! Part of being a hipster is being pushed out of the hood you helped "found." If the gentrification you yourself spurred ends up booting you out, you earn the hipster label and the right to bitch about it, not to mention the smug pleasure in exercising this right. Once you grow common sense, ditch the angst, and make an investment in your future by buying a home, you become The Man.
Posted by: Jeremy at January 22, 2007 4:24 PM
The Village Voice once described Ditmas Park an environs as "where aging hipsters go to retire." I think that translates to "breed."
Posted by: Anonymous at January 22, 2007 4:58 PM
"Part of being a hipster is being pushed out of the hood you helped "found."
Um... helped found? What about existing residents?
By the way, Columbus did not discover America.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 23, 2007 10:37 AM
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