The Big Apple

I have thought about whether "hipness" is something that starts in the city and moves outward toward the rural and suburb areas.  I am planning on having several paragraphs dedicated to it in my essay on my cousin's "hipness".  Since this is not that forum I will sum it up in one sentence.  In my opinion I think that "hipness" is definetely an urban phenome, otherwise it would have also manifested at least a little in some of the richer rural countries where survival is not the only concern.  From what I have observed, "hipness" seems to manifest in the cities, usually bigger cities, then move outward and become cool as it moves.  I have three examples of things that began in urban areas and moved outward: Yoga, Rap and Technology of any kind.  Yoga especially was a big city phenome and then it became nationally recognized.  Rap was almost literally born in the big cities from places like New York and this supposed "hood".  As for technology, the people who are inventing new, hip, technology usually live near a lot of people to get inspiration and most big companies are based in urban areas.  Basically to sum it up, the idea of "hip" is born in cities then moves to the people outside of them.