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by ianseyer 2947 days ago
Someone posted a comment mentioning that coffee shops are a good metric for cultural development when trying to look for a new city
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There's this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391753

How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops (medium.com) 326 points by edward on Oct 15, 2015 | 306 comments

https://medium.com/@Sam_Floy/how-to-know-if-where-you-live-i...

Completely disagree about the fried chicken part of the equation. The more fried chicken the better.
Its not making a judgment call, just a correlation.
I wasn't making a judgement call either. Just stating how much I like fried chicken.
That metric is so implicitly bigoted it's funny