Here the hippie enclave is Boulder (aka The People's Republic of Boulder), or Manitou Springs (I'm in Colorado). But Boulder is more Trust Fund Hippies and so very expensive. 😉
I'm 39 but have always been the enviro hippie type. I remember in high school (so, mid-90s) I was walking home and some kids were staring at me and as I passed said, "Are you a hippie??"
I said, uh, yeah, I guess. They said, "Oh!" and smiled as if that explained it.
I then spent the rest of the walk home wondering what was so hippie about me that needed explaining... 😂
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aww gee..I must confess I am quite a bit older...but it is not the age that produces the hippie. It's what is in our nature or our soul. So I am 62. I was a classic hippie. The long blonde hair to my bum, the tie die shirt, the bell bottoms, and we embroided flowers on them. Moccasins on my feet, a suede fringe belt, suede fringe purse and a jacket. We made flower rings for our hair out of daises or dandelions. My poor conventional immigrant parents. All my boyfriends had long hair. Not to mention what we smoked, or ingested. I do have to say even though it was a huge movement and me and my friends went to every sit in, love in, rock concerts etc. Not everyone followed that crowd or thinking. Eventually we all grew up and got nice corporate jobs and wore suits and worked in downtown Toronto in skyscrapers. As time wore on the hippies left that world and joined a new age platform. New age music and new age thinking. Healthfood stores were approaching and we migrated to that. A lot went to Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. The Trust Fund ones as you call them are in Yorkville, in Toronto. Here in Nova Scotia they are scattered around. Mahone Bay, Lunenberg, some in Halifax and right here in St. Margarets's Bay area where I live. My little home of Seabright on St. Margaret's Bay is largely artists, homesteaders and whirlaround hippies. Thats what I call us older ones whirlarounds. Since we have been this way around before. Deja vu.
My mom is 66 and my dad 73, but they were never hippies (even though my dad did All The Drugs). Very conventional. Conventional food, TV news, take a handful of pills if the doctor says so, police and military on mom's side three generations (American and Canadian - her parents are from NS and NB), and police and military on dad's side two generations. I was raised Catholic and almost became a religious. So my hippie inclinations make me the tye dye sheep of the family. Add Paganism, Communo-Anarchist views and Queer As A Snowstorm In July and you can guess what they all think of me.
very special indeed :)) from my viewpoint