Gothamist: Is Green Acres the Place to Be?

Nick S

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:48:20 -0500

they'll get bored with this in a couple years, and we'll all be forced to overhear obnoxious "on the farm..." stories.

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:54:14 -0500

actually community gardens/farms grew during times of depression. People used to grow their own food to supplement what they could afford to buy. somehow I don't think these people are poverty stricken. I've seen lots of NYC'ers looking for property to buy up, upstate.

Spiny

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:45:30 -0500

"...all the cool kids are taking up farming now -- and even current city-dwellers are cheering them on." Uh, yeah, that could be because they're doing something constructive for once.

brooklynbee

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:09:29 -0500

Yep, I think most of the Times' 'trend' pieces are anecdotal to the point of being practically made up. It's ridiculous. They once had a piece on how no one ever bumps into anyone they knew in New York... because it never happened to the guy who wrote the article.

matty

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:49:08 -0500

hehe this "trend" seems highly anecdotal

plk779

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:40:18 -0500

Does anyone else think that "stuff white people like" blog is really just "stuff yuppies like"? If it were really stuff white people liked, wouldn't there be more nascar and less coastal hipster stuff? Either way, I think there are worse things to get into than producing fresh food.

petebfd

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:36:41 -0500

well, when you financial folk finish crashing our economy, who will be laughing then?

cwbuecheler

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:36 -0500

I look forward to the reduction in fauxhawks and really ugly skintight jeans that this represents for New York.

poopmast

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:07:00 -0500

umm they're just returning back to their previous lifestyle.

mmlanglie

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:50:43 -0500

"Dip Dye" - I think I just vomited a little in my mouth. I went to college with a ton of these suburban hippies-so over it.

kcin122

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:47:33 -0500

nyc used to be filled with hippies. the 60's sucked also this is old news. Asheville, NC is filled with these people.

mmlanglie

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:36:36 -0500

Hippies in NYC = My worst nightmare. Aren't they all supposed to be in Wyoming or something?!

dbc

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:34:08 -0500

The Times' article opens up with "Their Carhartts are no longer ironic." This post contains the sentence "...making their thrift store 4-H t-shirts no longer ironic." Way to plagiarize.

Tim N.

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:16:10 -0500

I like it... anything that gets yupsters out of the city gets a check + in my book.

TimSPC

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:59:53 -0500

Stuff White People Like has the funniest take on this article.

Rocknrope

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:49:19 -0500

Anyone see the Daily Show segment of the Marine Recruitment center in Berkeley? RAAAAH! HIPPIES! (Smashes through drywall)