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According to a joint survey by Forbes Magazine and San Francisco-based startup Nextdoor.com, the Pearl District ranks No. 5 among 鈥�.鈥�

Dabney Lawless, vice president of communications for Nextdoor.com, said turning demographics from more than 250 cities into data was easier said than done.

鈥淥bviously people associate skinny jeans with being a hipster, but there’s really no way to quantify that,鈥� she said.

So the group began searching for hipster habitats 鈥� mainly coffee shops. With 28 coffee shops for every 100,000 residents, the Pearl ranks No. 2 (behind Seattle) in the country.

Lawless said food trucks and farmers’ markets were added to the criteria. Walkability also was taken into account; the Pearl ranked 95 out of 100.

鈥淲e could easily have picked three to four different neighborhoods (in Portland),鈥� Lawless said. 鈥淚t ultimately came down to the Pearl, Mississippi Avenue and the Alberta Arts District.鈥�

When it came down to it, Lawless said choosing the Pearl was simply a judgment call. On the list, it trailed only Los Angeles’ Silver Lake, San Francisco’s Mission District, Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood and Chicago’s Wicker Park.