As someone who has lived in a few cities filled with counter-culture types, they can be incredibly insular, superficial, and tribal.  Ironically, they end up being a different looking, but similar acting version of the wealthy elite they claim to hate.<p>It seems like everyone in these places is just trying to re-invent a &quot;cooler than thou&quot; image, looking down on others who don&#x27;t prize their typically temporary life-style choices.  The gleeful embrace of self-imposed bohemian poverty, and the hatred of anyone who wants material possessions, is particularly annoying.  As someone who grew up in poverty, I really hate getting lectured on how meaningless money is by a dread-locked trust fund kid who is waxing poetic about how great of an experience it is to &quot;live simply.&quot;  They don&#x27;t seem to get the fact that for some of us, a &quot;tiny house&quot; is exactly what we fucking grew up in, except it wasn&#x27;t considered cool, and was stuck next to a bunch of other tiny houses called trailers in a community called a trailer park.<p>The point is that the people in Seattle that act like assholes to you almost certainly fall into this category of idiot.