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You know what’s cool? Not caring.

So no, you shouldn’t care that Vancouver has fallen a pitiful 199th in a survey of cities around the world of their hipster-ness.

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Blame the data, maybe, but you really shouldn’t care.

Move Hub, a website that looks to help people co-ordinate moving house, did a study a year ago of U.S. cities. Now they’ve expanded to a more global look.

From their study: “Our new, improved, alternative Hipster Index combines five data points: the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores per 100,000 city residents. Combined and weighted they produce a Hipster Index score out of ten for each city.”

(Cities with populations under 150,000 are excluded.)

They say they looked at 446 cities (home to more than 200 million people) and found 2,834 record stores, 7,772 vegan eateries, 14,588 tattoo studios, 15,549 vintage boutiques and 93,203 coffee shops.