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And another one.. this one doesn't have Phoenix or San Antonio.. I mean there are a LOT of techie types in Phoenix and other cities in the top 10 excluded... it's not all "creative" most of the development here is more business oriented.. I just really get sick of these types of things not taking into account some of the largest cities in the country.

I'm just getting really, really tired of living in the 6th largest city in the US, not even including the very large suburbs, and always being excluded from these kinds of things.

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I'm pretty sure Yelp has actual usage data that provides a better signal of which cities are worth the effort than population. Plus, trendy cities get talked about more than non-trendy ones by definition. More people care where hipsters hang out in Austin than where they hang out in Phoenix even though Austin is pretty small in the grand scheme of things.

The problem is, in not including the top 10 most populated cities in the US in things like this, they exclude a lot of the nation. This example in particular may not be great... but I am constantly seeing posts about new service X that doesn't include even the top 5 most populated cities... It's like excluding a large part of potential users. It's similar to releasing an IE-only site today.

The fact that you're unhappy about not being in a popularity list automatically disqualifies you from being a hipster :-)

This is pretty interesting. You might say that anybody who doesn't want the term hipster applied to them is a hipster. And everybody else is not a hipster. So then the best thing a hipster can do to lose their hipster status is to proclaim that they are indeed a hipster after all. How ironic...

Doesn't have the DFW either. I really feel like the country wouldn't even know San Antonio existed if it wasn't for the Spurs and the Alamo. It doesn't seem like a place people find desirable to move to it seems.

> It doesn't seem like a place people find desirable to move to it seems.

I've been through a few times. There's litter everywhere. It's trashy. San Antonio does not make a good impression. Strange because Lady Bird Johnson started her beautify America (crying native chief) from Texas.

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