It is common to think that hip originates in the city life. Which I find to be somewhat true.
I grew up in California, while living there the night life was never short of well the "night life". Clothing was always new and fresh, faces always done up, cars fast and shiney. Music thriving in all variations.

     So when I moved to Idaho the whole atmosphere was different. Clothing that had been popular ages ago in California had just began surfacing in Idaho, along with camo...which had never been popular. Yikes!. Shiney cars were replaced with giant trucks. And the "night life" in Idaho was reduced to a few kids sneaking out to a friends party.

     It was a huge culture shock! It felt as if I had been dropped off into hillbilly town. Although I must say I believe the reason things were so different were due to the fact that in California there were things to do, places to go, music, and dancing, and so any things worth seeing. While Idaho has a more restrictive variation of things to do.

     Making a good time in Idaho, a very dull evening in California. Boise Idaho is also a smaller town, and it feels as if everyone knows, well, everyone. It sees as if reinventing yourself would be difficult here. Hopefully nothing horrendous during the pubescent years occured, or hell it's all over you! California gave the opportunity to change constantly, since everything there was evolving so quickly.

     So maybe it isn't just city life, perhaps it is just certain areas that are deemed with the right to make waves in the ocean of hip. Since Boise Idaho, a city, does not possess anything nearly as intense as other cities in other states. So is it a mixture of people, or the area,or setting that creates these spaces of hip? The places that are worthy to disply hip happenings?

     I can't be sure. I do know that even though there is no actual written rule, I have witnessed these honest situations. It is most clear that certain areas are indeed more hip than others, and it may not even be based on the aspect of "city life".