Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

[jamespowers]

Sounds more like they are getting what Montana got from California in the 80s and 90s.

I would send more if I could get rid of more. They have been here long enough.

 

[jamespowers]

Our hippies went up into the woods when they came here, and they generally tended to mind their own business. Most of them were "back to the landers" who just wanted to sit in their cabins and do whatever it is that they do. The gentrifiers, on the other hand, move right into town, buy houses up on the cheap, run for selectman and school board, and think the whole purpose of Maine is to be a quaint picture postcard setting for their upper-middle-class boat-owning fantasies. The one good thing about living on a street where there have been meth labs, heroin dealers, and other such things, is that the gentrifiers are scared to death to come near it.

Your hippies are fine. The ones we have here ended up doing what the gentrifiers do there and this was 40 years ago, except they wanted to create a no-work, free dope society.:eusa_doh:

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ours tend to work very hard -- you don't survive in the woods of Maine for very long if you're a slacker. Unfortunately, more than a few of working-class families in Maine are finding one of the few ways left to make a living is to grow pot for them and for the hipsters. This is what happens when about the only alternatives left for working people in Quaint Arty Upper Middle Class Maine are to mow the gentrifiers' lawns, mop their floors, clean their toilets, and raise their kids.

Maybe the hippies have the right idea -- get off the grid, hide in the woods, and plot against the System.

 

[jamespowers]

Ours tend to work very hard -- you don't survive in the woods of Maine for very long if you're a slacker. Unfortunately, more than a few of working-class families in Maine are finding one of the few ways left to make a living is to grow pot for them and for the hipsters. This is what happens when about the only alternatives left for working people in Quaint Arty Upper Middle Class Maine are to mow the gentrifiers' lawns, mop their floors, clean their toilets, and raise their kids.

Maybe the hippies have the right idea -- get off the grid, hide in the woods, and plot against the System.

They work. There is the HUGE difference.
I see yours still smoke dope though.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Sort of the difference between a bum, a tramp, and a hobo.

And yes, dope smoking is right up there with paint sniffing and getting salted on our proud state's list of Favorite Youth Activities.

 

[jamespowers]

Sort of the difference between a bum, a tramp, and a hobo.

And yes, dope smoking is right up there with paint sniffing and getting salted on our proud state's list of Favorite Youth Activities.

:rofl: True.

Oh geez! Well at least one of the local cities here is not alone then.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I grew up in the pre-gentrification era. There were glue sniffers and potheads then, but there were far fewer of them, and they were ostracized. Now they're, as the hipsters say, totally mainstream. Gentrification has made these problems much, much worse over the last twenty years or so.

 

[kiwilrdg]

Send them all to New York.

As long as they go to New York City. I like Upstate too much. The community around my parent's farm is like the golden era with internet thrown in and I would like to be able to afford to retire there.

 

[Paul Roerich]

The one good thing about living on a street where there have been meth labs, heroin dealers, and other such things, is that the gentrifiers are scared to death to come near it.

Walter White: anti-gentrification hero.

 

[jamespowers]

As long as they go to New York City. I like Upstate too much. The community around my parent's farm is like the golden era with internet thrown in and I would like to be able to afford to retire there.

That would work for me.

 

[jamespowers]

I grew up in the pre-gentrification era. There were glue sniffers and potheads then, but there were far fewer of them, and they were ostracized. Now they're, as the hipsters say, totally mainstream. Gentrification has made these problems much, much worse over the last twenty years or so.

I can just imagine. There hardly any dope smoking out here until the hippies and the like showed up. I mean Robert Mitchum was about as high profile as it got back then.

 

[JohnnyLoco]

The hipster trend is dying off, I believe.

 

[ButteMT61]

The hipster trend is dying off, I believe.

But they don't care.

 

[Yeps]

But they don't care.

It is dying off because they care so much about it that it has become too mainstream. It will be replaced by another one equally ridiculous.

 

[Paul Roerich]

Believe it or not, the hippest young people of the early to mid 1970s were wearing ... vintage 1930s and '40s clothing. It's true.


One example among many, if you know where to look: the Pointer Sisters, garbed in vintage 1940s dresses and hats, pose for the cover of their 1973 debut album. And don't forget David Bowie, who abandoned his 'Ziggy Stardust' persona in favor of the '30s-esque 'Thin White Duke'.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

No doubt influenced by the popularity of such movies as The Sting.

 

[Yeps]

No doubt influenced by the popularity of such movies as The Sting.

and vice versa.

 

[Paul Roerich]

and vice versa.

Yes.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Believe it or not, the hippest young people of the early to mid 1970s were wearing ... vintage 1930s and '40s clothing. It's true.


One example among many, if you know where to look: the Pointer Sisters, garbed in vintage 1940s dresses and hats, pose for the cover of their 1973 debut album. And don't forget David Bowie, who abandoned his 'Ziggy Stardust' persona in favor of the '30s-esque 'Thin White Duke'.

KINDA OT BUT: I love the Pointer Sisters!!!

 

[scotrace]

Ours tend to work very hard -- you don't survive in the woods of Maine for very long if you're a slacker. Unfortunately, more than a few of working-class families in Maine are finding one of the few ways left to make a living is to grow pot for them and for the hipsters.

"Street value: $800,000.00"
Man. That kind of jack would tempt just about anybody.
Modern bootlegging.