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March 16, 2012 | 2:52 PM | By Dustin Dwyer

Detroit And Austin Should Totally Be BFFs

This weekend's Austin American Statesman, as posted on imgur.com.

Ok, we’ll admit, Changing Gears has not always had a friendly tone toward Austin. But, mean-spirited jokes aside, Austin does seem to come up on this site a lot more than other non-Midwest cities. We’ve even written about Austin’s hopes to build its own local auto industry.

But when we saw the headline above, from this weekend’s Austin American-Statesman, it just seemed like this strange, long-distance flirting between cities could be the real deal. Detroit and Austin actually have a lot in common – both have great music, both have hipsters and both are pretty weird.

So how about it Austin? Do you want to go steady with Detroit?

Circle one:

Yes      or      No

FILED UNDER: Communities, Innovation, Austin, Detroit, flirting, hipsters, lovefest
February 22, 2012 | 4:58 PM | By Dustin Dwyer

Dear People Who Don’t Know Anything About Detroit, Your Jokes Are Dumb.

flickr user josephleenovak

A Detroit hipster

Hipsters. What with their mustaches, skinny jeans and bicycles, how are they not just the most adorable creatures in the world? But if there’s one thing they love even more than that navy-blue American Apparel hoodie with the white piping, it’s irony. And where do they most love casting their ironic gaze? On themselves, of course.

Which brings us to this fine piece of bloggery that’s been making the rounds. It’s written by none other than “Austin’s Blogger of the Year,” Lauren Modery.

Modery writes:

Sometimes it feels like there is no place more hipster-plentiful than Austin, Texas …But are other cities unscathed by the beast? Smaller, up-and-coming cities that are like how Austin was before ‘we’ showed up?

She then lists three cities that are not in the Midwest, and gently pokes fun at the hipsters there. I’ll be honest, I barely skimmed this part. But then, Modery gets to her final city on the brink of “hipsterfication,” Detroit:

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FILED UNDER: Communities, Austin, crepes, Detroit, hipstercrite, hipsters, Lauren Modery