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Guys, the search is over. MoveHub, a London-based moving-information company, has “scientifically proven that Vancouver, Washington, is the most hipster city in the United States” — but not only that, that Richmond is the fifth most hipster city in the country.

We say: eye roll, sigh and duh.

“There’s no one prevailing definition, but common qualities (of hipsters) are easy enough to spot,” MoveHub says. “Hipsters are a subculture of 20- to 30-somethings who position themselves as non-mainstream pioneers; freethinkers and nonconformist conformists.”

Using “no editorialising here; just data. Pure, bohemian data,” the company measured the number of microbreweries, vegan restaurants, tattoo parlors and thrift shops per 100,000 residents among the country’s 150 most populous cities.

It threw in rent inflation in the last year, and out came the “U.S. Hipster Index.”

Richmond came in at No. 5 with a hipster ranking of 7.040.

Interestingly, the only category in which Richmond came in at No. 1 was thrift stores. Yes, thrift stores. Apparently, we have 14 thrift stores per 100,000 people, which seems to be the category that put us over the edge. (We came in No. 6 for breweries, by the way.)

MoveHub notes: “Smaller populations lend themselves to hipsterness. Not a single city in the top 10 had a population above 500,000. In other words, big cities literally aren’t niche enough to be true hipster havens.”

The Seattle Times contributed to this report. kpeifer@richmond.com (804) 649-6321 Twitter: @KarriPeifer