What's the Best Hippy Town in the U.S.?

[cobalt1999]

I was having this debate with a couple of friends, by "hippie town" we meant not only does it have to have hippies, but have a good number of health food stores, second hand or vintage clothing stores, outdoor stores, laid back attitude...

One friend was saying Boone, NC; another mentioned a couple of towns in Colorado.

So, what's YOUR favorite "hippy town"? I just may have to ride the motorcycle to the consensus winner.

[bullimiami]

1. ive heard asheville.

[cobalt1999]

2. I can ride there.

The Biltmore and Hippies don't seem to go together though.

[tekisui]

5. Asheville has it all.

Hippies, rich ones from FL, a vibrant GLBT community, and we are surrounded by southern folks. And, some rednecks.

[cobalt1999]

14. You've talked me into it then.

I can drop the wife off at Biltmore (she's always wanted to go), and I can enjoy the town. Nice riding up there too.

Organic markets AND southern food...nice setup.

[Alcibiades]

130. Go to the Biltmore once

It's basically an overpriced museum with nice landscaping. A lovely memorial to an era Bush has been trying hard to recreate.

Once you've seen it, you don't need to go back. Talk about elitism! It seems to me that the place is a theme park for the wanna-be rich, who go as if the patina of all that money would somehow be transferred to them by osmosis.

But it is very nice, as is the whole area.

[Stuckinthebush]

135. Great Vegetarian restaurant

in Asheville called "The Laughing Seed". There is a brew pub downstairs from it that serves Green Man Ale.

I love Asheville. A little liberal oasis in a sea of red.

[tekisui]

3. This hippy in Asheville can vouch for that.

We have a drum circle every friday night in the center of town, organic markets and 4 or 5 head shops.

[G_j]

142. we also have a large billboard: "Impeach Bush" downtown

the other side keeps track of the war casualties.

that makes me proud

[dipsydoodle]

10. Asheville NC is also

the home of bluegrass music thanks to Bascom Lamar Lunsford who arranged the first festival there.

[Sydnie]

49. I have been to that festival ... almost 30 years ago now

and what a time I had! One of the best times I can remember actually!

[dipsydoodle]

60. DVD of its history , which started 1928

is occasionally back in print. Looks to available right now if you're into that music as am I :
http://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Roots-Bascom-Lamar-Lunsford/dp/B0001LQL5Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1215009275&sr=1-1

That DVD comes and goes. I think my copy was about twice that price a few years back but worth every cent. It's wonderful seeing cine film of the Appalachians all that time ago.

[LastDemocratInSC]

106. My father got Lunsford to begin recording the mountain music

My father was a young broadcast engineer in Asheville in the 1930s. He introduced Lunsford to the audio recording methods of the day ... wire recording and direct recording to discs. He traveled around the mountains with Lunsford and recorded for him for several years.

[seemslikeadream]

129. That is so cool

:hi:

[dipsydoodle]

134. Then your father is a hero of the first degree.

Lunsford is right up there with Lomax for the stuff he managed to find and preserve for future generations.

There are some clips on Youtube , here's one of them with him on fiddle : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7nJ6HtXdnU&feature=related

:hi:

[fasttense]

15. How very strange that you would mention Asheville.

I love that town, great food, great shops, great people. I visit there regularly. I just didn't think everyone else knew about it.

[mitchum]

34. Tru$tafarian$

[blindpig]

58. Babies full of rabies, yes, yes! n/t

[blindpig]

57. The problem with 'hip' anything

is that it sooner rather than later gets overrun with yuppies and posers. 'Success' is their downfall. That's whats happened to Asheville, NC, which is right up the road from me. The real scene gets overwhelmed by hustlers and people of my generation(boomers) looking to re-live their youth and with the bucks and time to indulge in such.

Same with bar districts, places like Fells Point in Baltimore or the waterfront in Savannah were a blast in the day, now they're sucko theme parks.

[cobalt1999]

86. Happened to Key West too.

Used to be a wild and somewhat dangerous place. Now, it's more Disney dressed up to look like old Key West.

[blindpig]

94. Even 30 years ago

Duvall St was pretty white bread. However, if ya got off the main drag and hit the Green Parrot Saloon, a shrimper joint, you could get in all kinds of trouble.

[cobalt1999]

104. I worked on a state research vessel based out of Key West in 1979

We'd regularly stagger back to our bunks in the bow around 4am, wake up after the ship had been out port for a couple hours already. Between the lack of sleep, nightlife, and two hours of bouncing, we'd have the worst hangovers imaginable.

I know what you mean about the shrimper joints, we got in ALL kinds of trouble.

[NightWatcher]

4. Boone, Asheville, and Brevard NC are all very progressive and hippie friendly

I went to Brevard back in May and was blown away by the town. I cant wait to get back to the area.

[Sequoia]

67. Hells Bells!

That's my home town and I couldn't wait to leave back in the day. Now I live in a redneck town in N. Cal. A town where some people drive their Chevy or Ford trucks with a confederate flag flapping behind it. I never saw that in Brevard, but can recall that sign in Rosman about how the sun better not going down and a certain race of people being around.

[dipsydoodle]

6. My knowledge is limited but try Yellow Springs OH.

http://www.hippy.com/review-84.html

[yellowdogintexas]

oh I would agree with you there. nt

[H2O Man]

7. Two:

{1} Ithaca, New York

{2} Corvalis, Oregon

[conscious evolution]

45. Ithaca seems to be pretty hip

My favorite band,Donna the Buffalo,comes from there.

[Mnemosyne]

53. I am going to the Great Blue Heron Music Fest. this weekend and

Donna the Buffalo is a major player there each year.

[conscious evolution]

93. They also put on the GrassRoots Festival at Finger Lakes.

IMHO,they are one of the best bands out there these days.
Jeb knows what abracadabra means and is actively involved in changing the paradym of todays so-called culture.Back to the way things were way back when.

[Blue Belle]

84. Corvallis isn't as Hippie as Eugene....

It's close, though.

[Sparkly]

143. I was just gonna say Ithaca

Haven't been there in a while, but when I was there I thought it was populated with "earth-shoes."

[Warpy]

8. Hippy means fatass

so there are a lot of contenders, especially in the deep south.

However, if you were asking about HIPPIE towns, the main contender is Madrid, New Mexico, the land that time forgot.

I've been all over New England and the south, and nothing there compares.

Just don't expect it to be tidy. It's not.

[cobalt1999]

18. That's what I get for posting before my coffee..too late now..I'll just have to look like a dumbass

Madrid, New Mexico?

I'll have to google map it, never heard of it.

[Warpy]

41. You have a lot of company on that misspelling, a pet peeve of mine

Madrid is up in the mountains between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. I found it on my first trip out here when I decided to take the scenic route south. I've been back frequently when I need to remember who I used to be.

Madrid is an old mining town that was slowly bought up by freaks and artists starting in the late 60s. One of the businesses it sports is a real 1930s era soda fountain. There's no health food store, but it can be argued that most of the food in the area is health food since there are no fast food joints and no supermarket to be found.

The best salsa in a jar I've ever had was some stuff with a homemade label I bought off the back of a pickup truck in Madrid.

[Iris]

68. Happens to the best of us!

:hippie:

[siligut]

71. It is a beautiful ride on a bike too

I second Madrid (MADrid), NM. Warm people, ease of atmosphere, a creative and enlightened, without pretension, collective consciousness. Though I might be considered a little pretentious for expressing that so blatantly, the people there are not judgmental.

[MadashellLynn]

9. GOT to be Ann Arbor Michigan

Farmers market, food co-op,and of course the hash bash.

[Squatch]

11. Olympia, WA

Boulder, CO
Moab, UT

[Squatch]

20. Oooh...forgot one...FLOYD, VA

The first sight that greets you as you roll in to town is a yurt store.



This town is pleasantly granola.

[cobalt1999]

22. I've been to Moab, UT

I really enjoyed my brief visit there.

[Squatch]

29. The only downsides to Moab are:

the throngs of college a-holes who descend on the town each spring and summer to test their 4x4's on the slickrock (all but destroying any remaining cryptogamic soil) and the fact that the beer is capped at 3.2%ABV

[lumberjack_jeff]

54. Here's another vote for Olympia. n/t

[Saphire]

12. Austin

[cobalt1999]

28. I haven't been in 25 years.

It seemed kind of "preppy" back then (but lots of college towns were then).

[Terry in Austin]

110. Austin... natch!

[sellitman]

13. New Paultz, NY

You actually think you went back in time.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

27. New Paltz is lovely, but I would say in NY, Woodstock. I did flea markets there a few years ago and

it was also a time warp. I favor Woodstock over New Paltz because of the size. Woodstock is larger. If I have the money, in a couple of years, I'd move there in a heartbeat.

[alcibiades_mystery]

50. Totally agree that it's New Paltz

n/t

[FredMertz]

56. Rosendale - right next door to New Paltz

Or as the bumper stickers say, "The Peoples Republic of Rosendale". Mellow people, beautiful countryside, and not as commercialized as Woodstock or New Paltz.

[paparush]

16. A very small part of Asheville is quite hippy-friendly. The majority is dominated

by NASCAR, Jesus, and the Junior League.

[Stuckinthebush]

136. Hell, the Junior League is all over the South

Fascinating group of women...they'd make a great ethnography.

[Sancho]

17. Key West

You may not call it "hippies", but it's a cool place...

[cobalt1999]

32. Key West in the 70's/80's was lots of fun

It's still a cool place, but turning more into a Disney Downtown like attraction.

[readmoreoften]

19. Austin. I mean there is a yearly hippie pot party with thousands in a city park.

The story is that all the hippies were in the park getting high sometime 20 or 30 years ago. I'm unsure (I only went once, not a hippy) When a cop approached one guy the cop said "what are you kids doing here?!!" And one of the hippies said very convincingly. "Oh. Because it's Eeyore's Birthday." And the cops said. "Oh. Well. Okay." And now they have a big ol' damn hippy party in Pease Park every year called "Eeyore's Birthday" and a lot of folks are smoking pot.

Also there is a nudist state park that is officially called Hippie Hollow.

Another park has Frisbee Golf. (I mean come the fuck on)

Thrift shops. (And militant political thift stores too.)

Health food stores. Including a chain of Mexican owned Vegan Mexican Restaurants called Mr. Natural.

A food co-op market.

[dysfunctional press]

21. pahoa, big island, hawaii.

duh.

[stimbox]

75. Practically all of the Puna district is pretty crunchy. n/t

[KamaAina]

121. Also, Pa'ia and Makawao, Maui

all of Maui is kind of becoming a victim of its own success, but the Upcountry area is still hanging on. Bonus: Makawao still has a hitching post right in the center of town. There are still actual paniolos (cowboys) up there, as well as on Big Island.

[Echo In Light]

23. IA City, IA used to encompass that vibe back when I played in bar bands early-mid 90s

The thriving local music scene dried up though, replaced by hip hop DJ/jock bullshit/rave scene/, so violence and crime are much more frequent there now.

[Condem]

25. Agreed, Echo

There hasn't been a name band through here since the New Deal. Losing Gabes hurt.

[Echo In Light]

31. The Picadore, now. HOF was there over the winter

I haven't heard of any decent rocking local bands there now for many yrs.

[Condem]

42. The last great shows I saw in IC

Southern Culture on The Skids and The Drive-by Truckers. Three or four years ago?

[Echo In Light]

51. Caught Electric Wizard, Warhorse and Madison, WI's own Bongzilla there several yrs back

Incredibly heavy show. Numerous brain cells up in smoke.

[Green Mountain Dem]

24. My bet would be.....

Brattleboro, Vermont..where there are outstanding warrants for the arrest of Bush and Cheney should they ever step foot in this town!
The downtown area is frequented by naked "tree huggers" strolling through the park and breathing in the smell of pot smoke in the air!

[cobalt1999]

26. Okay, now that sounds cool.

LOL at the outstanding warrants for Bush/Cheney. My kind of town. That's on the list.

[Reverend_Smitty]

114. I concur

I was up there around this time last year and it seemed like a free spirited little town. They had a great independent bookstore to boot!

[marmar]

30. Berkeley, California......Or Arcata, California

n/t

[EFerrari]

66. Or, Santa Cruz. The last time I was Berkeley, I was surprised to see

how yuppied up it was. Still liberal as hell though -- our Code Pink march got a whole bunch of supporting honks all along our route. lol

[K8-EEE]

116. Yep! My brilliant hippy daughter will be attending Santa Cruz in Sept

that's why she picked it -- plus they have the best vegan choices in the dining halls!

[EFerrari]

128. I'm jealous and hope she's loves it there.

It's a fine school in a wonderful community. :)

[Poiuyt]

33. Madison Wisconsin

State Street is groovy man

[Echo In Light]

36. That was a fun town to play...OK Lounge, or OK Corral? It burned down yrs ago

[LeftHander]

61. Okayz Corral....

Saw a few bands their...

Did you play minneapolis too?

4th Street Entry, Uptown?

80's indie rocker here...

[eowyn_of_rohan]

92. Owner opened a new club - High Noon Saloon

and she sure knows how to run a bar! High Noon is THE Place now.

[EOTE]

124. Oh how I miss State Street.

Head shop, bar, wings place, music shop, ethnic restaurant...head shop, bar, wings place, music shop, ethnic restaurant. Repeat until you reach the capitol building. I never knew how much I'd grow to love and miss Wisconsin, especially Madison and Milwaukee. Two cities as different as can be, yet each has loads to offer. I hope someday to move back.

[Blue_Tires]

35. Lawrence, KS

[Bluenorthwest]

91. Lawrence KS is not only a hippie center

It is perhaps the Beat capital of the world. Mr Bill B and all of that...cool town indeed.

[KansDem]

112. They're *still* there...

When I first came back to graduate school in 1979, I "discovered" the Beer Garden at 14th and Tennessee. When you stepped into that place, you went back in time 15 years! I don't think the "garden" is there anymore, but I'm sure the "regulars" are somewhere else in Lawrence.

[moriah]

37. Leslie, Arkansas

Considering how small it is, it's one of the most hippie towns in Arkansas.

Eureka Springs is close, but it's larger and more tourist-y.

[KamaAina]

101. I was going to mention Eureka

the interesting thing about it is, tourists aside, it divides into two groups: hippies and jeezers. There is NO in between. In my day, the first thing that greeted you as you rounded the curve coming into town was a billboard reading "Get US out! Of the U.N.", brought to you by the Gerald L.K. Smith Foundation, the same people who built the "Christ of the Ozarks" statue (once described by a seven-year-old as "a milk carton with arms") and put on -- get this -- a Passion Play (no joos aloud :sarcasm: )

Meanwhile, the hippie contingent had its own private school, where it was my privilege to serve as guest math lecturer for a day. Topic: How to multiply really, really big numbers by 1 and come up with what you started with, or by 0 and come up with 0.

[carlyhippy]

38. Manitou Springs, Colorado, Boulder Colorado

as well as up around the Taos NM area.

Carly

[cobalt1999]

39. My company offered me a job/transfer to Boulder.

I almost took it. I love running and thought the hills around the area would be perfect.

[kentuck]

64. Manitou is cool...

To be so close to Colorado Springs. :-) I go there frequently.

[Blue Belle]

85. Yes. Manitou Springs.....

An oasis I found when living in highly conservative Colorado Springs.

[rolleitreks]

40. Brattleboro, VT. "Alternative" stores, restaurants abound, with their patrons. n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

132. first one that came to my mind too-

:hi:

peace~

[conscious evolution]

43. Atlanta Georgia

We have a very strong presence here.
Especially in the Little Five Points area.

Here are links to a few of the tribes and groups.

http://www.l5p.com/
http://www.lcclt.org/
http://www.eastlakecommons.org/
http://www.thestripproject.com/Welcome.html

The Rainbow Families also have a large presence here.A lot of support for the Waveland Kitchen after Katrina was coordinated here.

Atlanta also has a strong Hindu/Buddhist scene going on here.The dalai lama set up shop at Emory University.http://www.drepung.org/
There is also a very large Hindu temple in the suburb of Lawrenceville.http://www.hindutempleofatlanta.org/

They always said the south would rise again.Just not like they expected it.

[Iris]

72. thanks for posting these links!

[CanonRay]

44. Crestone, Colorado

Must be the mountains being so close.

[Steely_Dan]

46. Santa Fe, NM or Humbolt, CA

[Bennyboy]

47. Nevada City CA, Garberville/Redway CA, Burlington VT

Have all the requirements.

Nevada City is great. Old gold rush town, lots of music going on, a great community radio station (kvmr.org)huge arts community, lots of social programs and an area that is know for it's agricultural (Sna Juan Ridge area). Great Rivers, lots of skinny dip spots.

Garberville/Redway is nice too. Downtown Emerald triangle. Great radio stations (kmud.org), Reggae on the River and other festivals, redwood trees,Rivers...Kind of like antehr country.

Burlinton. birthplace of Phish. Great radio station, lots of trees, very left politically.

[dweller]

48. at one time Chapel Hill NC

but now ... :shrug:

hell, Jesse Helms wanted to put a fence around us, and designate us the NC Zoo.

dp

[yardwork]

63. Chapel Hill is great. I love it here.

We have food coops, farmer's markets, and lots of organic farmers, I live three miles from work, free bus system all over town, gay-friendly, all kinds of music, etc.

[mnhtnbb]

120. Me, too. I love Chapel Hill. Also nominated Carrboro in post #119

[yardwork]

126. Carrboro is even cooler and more hip than Chapel Hill!

[cobalt1999]

52. Okay folks, here is the map.

I placemark'ed every city you listed. Now you can plan your trips accordingly.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104128484132441961375.0004510a8ac374dd8343a&ll=36.738884,-95.800781&spn=36.335067,88.59375&z=4

[Squatch]

76. Nice! You forgot Boulder, CO, tho.

[cobalt1999]

83. Oops. Fixed now and with the additional entries added

Enjoy. Looks like the mountains and coast are the favorite places

[ljm2002]

55. Santa Cruz, CA

A college town that has more vegetarian restaurants than you can shake a stick at. Easier to find a tofu-burger than the real thing. And they've got a boardwalk complete with roller coaster! Not only that, but the UC Santa Cruz team mascot is the banana slug... voted in by the students years ago, the school admins tried to squash it (ugh, now that's an image I could do without :-) ) but the students prevailed.

[slackmaster]

59. Arcata, California for the win

Other than maybe Santa Cruz.

[OnyxCollie]

62. Athens, OH or Flagstaff, AZ. nt

[Alexander]

96. If you're mentioning Flagstaff, I have to say a kind word about Sedona.

Sedona is practically hippy central, at least as far as Arizona is concerned.

[OnyxCollie]

115. Are you talking hippie,

or wealthy new age types? Unless you're a holistic tour guide, few people in Sedona are "hippies", IMO.

[norepubsin08]

65. Eugene

Has everything, huge campus, lots of hippies, tons of liberal stuff, close to mountains, ocean and big city Portland

[iris5426]

82. I second Eugene....

Even the corner stores sell all organic food...and don't forget that the state of OR has medicinal marijuana laws...

[Bluenorthwest]

90. Eugene

'Cause I live here, and I am in fact wearing tie dye even as I post!

[slampoet]

69. Asheville, NC Ann Arbor, MI Eugene, OR and Vancouver BC.

With big respect too for Taos NM and Burlington VT

[alfredo]

70. Berea Kentucky is very artistic, and has a real out door community.

It also has one of the best small colleges in America. For every 77 males, there are 100 females. The population is young and artistic.

This is where you go if you want to learn traditional arts and crafts.




Their arts and craft fairs are known nationwide. The whole hippy movement was about getting back to basics.

[AspenRose]

73. Santa Fe and Taos!

:bounce:

[Blue_In_AK]

74. Bolinas, California

was my favorite hippie town "back in the day," but it's almost too expensive for hippies to live there now. It's also too small to have all the stores you're talking about -- but as for "laid back," we were back there a couple of years ago, and it still has much the same feel as when I lived there in the very early '70s.

[laststeamtrain]

100. Check this out.

http://www.bigbridge.org/bolinas.htm

[cobalt1999]

103. So, which one are you in the picture?

:)

[laststeamtrain]

108. I can't remember.

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

105. Oh, my gosh, I'm going to have to bookmark that one

and read it cover to cover. My oldest daughter was born on the Bolinas mesa at home in the summer of 1972, attended by midwife Helen Swallow and 16 or 20 of my closest friends.

We sure did have some fun down there back in those days. Just sat around on the beach getting high and playing music all day long and into the night. :hippie:

[laststeamtrain]

138. I hope you enjoy this article.

I've been rereading it off & on today & sure have enjoyed it.

Hardly a day goes by that I don't remember those years.

I guess part of it was being young.

Every once & awhile my ol' lady & I (my apologies for using the jargon of the time) talk about what we thought the world would be like 40 or so years from then. It sure wasn't like this. It was nothing like this. It was going to be better.

Sometimes I'm sad. But I don't have very many regrets.

I think we surprised them. They didn't see it coming. But once they did they sure knew how to close the door.

I hope you're doing well & your family's good...all best LST.

[Blue_In_AK]

140. Oh, yes, I and my family are doing well,

and in some ways my life is almost like it was then, since I'm only working when I want to, and I live in Alaska where pot is legal. :smoke: The only thing different is that I'm doing photography now for fun instead of playing music. The years in between then and now weren't the best, but now I'm finally just kicking back, enjoying the fruits of my labors.

I don't know what to expect in the future, but if I made it this far through all the other adventures in my life, I guess I'll just keep on keepin' on. :)

[maveric]

77. Ocean Beach, San Diego.

Where I live! :hippie:

[IndependentDem]

98. I will second that one!...

OB is a great place to live.

[dajoki]

78. Key West used to be...

that way, but I think it has changed and not for the better. When I was there back in the '70s it was as you describe, "a hippie town", now I don't know.

[Lorien]

79. Asheville, NC or Yellow Springs Ohio.

Yellow Springs is the "little town that time forgot". We used to visit a lot in the early 70s, and it hasn't changed much since then.

I'd love to move to Asheville, and will if my finances ever improve.

[Zynx]

80. Madison is far and away the most hippie friendly place I have ever been in.

[Greybnk48]

81. Agreed. Madison WI is Hippie Mecca

[leftofthedial]

87. Dallas TX

they love 'em some hippies there. Best hippie brisket in the world.

[KamaAina]

102. I found it kind of stringy

and gamy. :P

[leftofthedial]

122. I don't know what the herb was they used, but

it was a little skunky.

[hogwyld]

88. Portland, OR

It's a reasonably large city, so it has everything, but it's pretty liberal, with a lot of organic goods, fair trade coffee houses, local micro-brews. Medicinal marijuana. Eugene is another great place.

[High Plains]

89. Nelson, BC--only 20 miles from the US border

Half the people are growing dope; the other half want to adjust your chakras.

Highest percentage of dread-locked white guys anywhere.

The local head shop, Holy Smoke, sells pot openly.

[laststeamtrain]

95. The Blues festival is in Portland, OR this weekend.

Canned Heat is head lining. There'll be some hippies there.

[ceile]

97. Austin or Durango, CO n/t

[Taverner]

99. Eugene, OR; Santa Cruz, CA; Berkeley, CA; Olympia, WA; Burlington, VT

At least those are my faves

[KillCapitalism]

107. Columbia, Missouri

That town is somewhat hippy from what I've seen.

[boomerbust]

109. Homer Alaska

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

[Blue_In_AK]

111. I'll second that.

My brother lives down there.

I just posted a bunch of photos from Homer in my SmugMug gallery here
http://www.northernvisions.smugmug.com/gallery/5151558_22cBe#311727603_rAApH

[boomerbust]

131. Thanks Blue

I spent yhe summer up there in 04. Great time!

[jakem]

113. Madrid, NM

the real deal. none of this yuppie hippy crap.

[orleans]

117. i went through new hope pennsylvania and thought it was pretty cool

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=New%20Hope

http://www.hippy.com/review-94.html

here's a comment from the above link:
"Comment: there are too many gay and lesbian people there for me. i have NO PROBLEM with how they live their life, if you want to be gay or a lesbian, go right ahead. but when im walking my kid down the street, and he sees two guys or two girls kissing, i think thats a little much. new hope may be known for their hippies, or there overpriced shops, or there bars that only are for middle aged people, but now a days, everyone i bring up new hope to, says "oh thats the gay town right? where everyone who lives there is a lesbian??" yup real nice tourist attraction guys. real nice "

sounds perfect!

[Rockholm]

118. Gloucester, Massachusetts!

We have it all!

[mnhtnbb]

119. Carrboro, NC--Right next to Chapel Hill.

Some people think of them as part of the same town, but they are two different towns. Carrboro
is smaller with a distinct town square area outside Weaver Street Market that serves as a real
gathering place.

One of the best venues for live music--Cat's Cradle--is there. Several excellent restaurants
as well as numerous laid back eateries.

One of two secondhand stores operated by the Chapel Hill/Carrboro City School Thrift shops is located
there. Excellent farmer's market.

Carrboro had a gay mayor for a number of years; he's now on the County Board of Supervisors. It's a very laid back town.

[KamaAina]

123. You know what? It'd be hella cool if someone would map all these

Any map software geeks out there?

[cobalt1999]

127. Look up at reply #52

I'm not up to date on the newest ones though. Maybe I'll post a new thread with the map finished if people are interested.

[Burma Jones]

125. Takoma Park, MD

[Vinca]

133. Definitely Brattleboro, Vermont.

Where else can you find Bernie Sanders milking a cow after a parade?

[robertpaulsen]

137. Ashland, Oregon

It definitely fit the bill in the 90's. I'm not so sure if it does now, the number of hippie outlets has contracted, though the attitude was still there last time I visited.

[lonestarnot]

139. Used to be Jerome AZ but the richies have taken it over I think.

[Oregone]

141. Yachats, Oregon?

Well, its not a big town like most mentioned already. And I really won't give too much away regarding what it has, being that its quite a gem that many people have not yet discovered. If you like the easy-going lifestyle and a community full of progressives, I think Yachats will fit the bill. Live music nightly, artsy atmosphere, beautiful environment...its an amazing place (far more hippy than any other place Ive been to in all of Oregon--Eugene/Ashland don't hold a candle).