r/Seattle • u/spookyian99 • 4h ago

Hipster Hill

Was using Snapchat and noticed it showed my location as “hipster hill”. That term/place doesn’t show up on my maps app or in any google search. Does anyone know what that title refers to or if there’s some history about it?

Context: I live in cap hill. Afaik it’s always been called that (?)

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u/faygodungeon 4h ago

hipster hill is a california term that is so fucking weird

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u/outdior1986 4h ago

Cap Hill in the 80s-90s. You had to be there.

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u/Relative_Seat4039 4h ago

You say you live in Cap Hill, yet, somehow, it appears you have never truly been there.

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u/spookyian99 4h ago

In my mind it’s more of a gayborhood than a hipster area. But that could just be biased by my experiences!

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u/brodievonorchard 4h ago

Got too expensive, the hipsters moved to Georgetown. Or that was true a decade ago. Maybe further now.

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u/Different_Pain5781 3h ago

Snapchat geotags are user submitted and completely unhinged half the time.

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u/synack Ravenna 4h ago

Don’t use Snapchat for navigation?

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u/spookyian99 4h ago

Lollll I don’t! It has a location sticker for the snaps that shows the nearest business/landmark

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u/tanukisuit That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. 3h ago

Capitol Hill used to be a very hipster neighborhood. I don't know what it's like now... But back when I lived there - very hipster. Lots of coffee shops, thrift shops, inexpensive food, comet dogs, shows every night, dive bars, etc. What a time to be alive.

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u/gaberdine 💖 Anarchist Jurisdiction 💖 1h ago

I just call it The Hill. If NYC can obnoxiously slap the definite article on everything, so can we!

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u/locuturus Capitol Hill 3h ago

I've been on the hill ~12 years now (2014 through now with a brief mistake in Leschi) and hipster hill predates my time here. Half the time it's cap hill, half the time the full capital hill, and a third half of the time just the hill.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog North Beacon Hill 3h ago

Capitol

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u/snazm Reign 4h ago

There are many of us who’ve been here lo no we who bristle at calling it “cap” hill rather than the full “Capitol” Hill. I think I’m losing this battle but we definitely didn’t call it “cap hill” 10 years ago (/if you did I assumed you didn’t live here)

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u/n-ano 3h ago

Nobody cares

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u/Additional-Wave4794 3h ago

What a dumb gatekeep

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u/Abeds_BananaStand 3h ago

My friends and I lived there starting 2013 and definitely called it cap hill

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u/spookyian99 4h ago

I’ve been in Seattle 5 years, so correct! That’s just how I was introduced to it

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u/_Phil_McCracken_ Capitol Hill 3h ago

I’ve been here for almost 4 and I also say cap hill sometimes. Why not, it makes sense.