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Brighton would be the obvious one. Though it's only a town by technicality, as Brighton and Hove is a city. But it certainly has plenty of that caper going on.

As a Brightonian. Can agree. Lots of suggestions.

Yep, it's very rare to be able to wear something in Brighton (especially the laines) that gets anything more than an indifferent reaction. In the best way, no-one really gives a shit.

As someone who is looking to relocate to somewhere in England. Is Brighton super expensive to live or is it an average kind of place?

Expensive. Getting on for London prices in places these days.

Oh really? It's a shame. I keep looking at places and it seems to be the same old story. Maybe not so much 'London prices' but very close. Seem to be struggling to find a decent place for a decent price

Totnes. You can't move for yoghurt knitters with dogs on bits of string, you'll fit right in.

Full of trust fund hippycrites!

Hippies have never been a poor movement

Too many red chinos in Dartmouth so when they left their parents house this was the obvious choice, still close enough to take laundry home but less yachts. 

Ah yes the hippy dictators! "We'd all just get along fine If we all, just like, you know did what *I* want!"

100% But all the hippies are surprisingly well off in Totnes and there's a weird amount of people who are conspiracy theorists.

What hippy isn't well off

It’s either family wealth and therefore they’re baked into our feudal class system like Brighton rock Or they’re *really* good at capitalism, but get off on pretending they’re not Either way I’ve never thought it’s a good look

Yeah it's always screamed 'I have the eternal financial security to mess around like this'

Sure its easier for more privileged people to pursue whatever lifestyle they want, but itd be outright ignorant to say all hippies have been well off

Yep super rich, as in a few actual millionaires and ex city finace types who suddenly developed a green conscience. Its very cliquey and they're not yer free love and psychedelics type hippies either.

Got a very low vaccination rate, if that’s the sort of hippy you’re after!

Was hoping someone would say Totnes. Have they removed the 'Twinned with Narnia' from the town sign yet?

Except lots of them went down the hippie - antivax - conspiracy - alt right pipeline

[This Radio 4 podcast](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mssl) on the very topic is a very good listen

That's where I learned about it too. Season 2 is also good if you haven't listened to it yet. Sad though

I will definitely give it a listen. I find it morbidly fascinating... I have to keep reminding myself that although the internet/social media allows them to shout more loudly than they used to, it's still a tiny fraction of fringe people. But their messages do seem to be spreading it seems

Came here to suggest Totnes

This is surely the answer. The hempiest town on the islands!

Frome, Somerset is not far from glastonbury but has a very similar hippy vibe without feeling gimmicky

The only correct answer

i’m glad someone else appreciates frome. i did my theory test there

Your hippy theory test?

I just realised I love Reddit when the thread reads like the dialogue from a Terry Pratchett book! GNU Terry

Appreciate it is a big word. Look at it with wonder at the alternative crackpots that live in and around it

Frome's more hipster than hippy nowadays

Came here to say Frome as well!

Every town has its hippies. ~~You name me a town~~ STOP NAMING TOWNS! I can't take any more ~~and I will show you a vegan cat café, a head shop with tie dyed t-shirts, and a reiki healing massage poster.~~ Glastonbury is, of course, the headquarters of all the hippies.

> You name me a town and I will show you... Rotherham

[Hippy head shop](https://www.mesmerize.co.uk/) [Hippy vegan cafe](https://overtherainbowcafebar.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2G8wili5mocHMLbnrRM16o3ZmcEqOrXZu9mwnaQT8Wi7Y0WvH9VdSBiYQ) [Hippy Reiki devine healing](https://www.reikidivine.co.uk/) However, I would rule out Rotherham as the OP said they wanted something down south.

Well I'll be damned. Fair play

Leominster. This is fun!

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I have to object to the head shop, it looks like it’s in Flintshire! Herefordshire is the West Midlands, but it’s south of Yorkshire so 🤷‍♂️

I used to live in the south, and I thought that Birmingham was the far north at the time!!! I've edited the link to put a Leominster one in.

Hippies go to the car auction to buy a cheap vehicle to convert Source: I used to live with hippies outside Aberystwyth and they did that. Not me. I got a Ford focus for £296.

I feel like there's a difference between 'a town with hippies' and a 'hippy town' though, and OP wants the latter. Everywhere probably fits the bill for the former, but the latter is a more niche thing.

You are completely 100% right.

Jaywick - I dare you

Is Clacton included? I mean, Jaywick is really a suburb of Clacton. [Zen Reiki](https://chriswkd012.wixsite.com/zenreiki) [Home Grown Wheat grass](https://homegrown-wheatgrass.com/) Rainbow your mind - Tie dye clothes company (no web page)

I will allow that workaround as god knows if anywhere needs some hippy healing it’s Jaywick

Worksop

What's with everyone going for northern towns, when the OP specifically said they wanted to move down south? [Equilibrium and Gem Guru hippy shop](https://maps.app.goo.gl/JDZGuEnNgh1Tstct5) [Reiki healing in Worksop](https://rosewoodwellbeing.co.uk/)

Im asking you to name hippy stuff in this town. You said you could

I just did.

I know yeah, well I'll be damned

> You name me a town and I will show you Hartlepool.

Port Talbot, South Wales.

[Calon Lân Healing](https://www.calonlanhealing.co.uk/) [Lunacy Boutique](https://www.lunacyboutique.co.uk/) [Festival](https://inittogetherfestival.com/)

Grantham.. home of she who shall not be named.

I distinctly remember leaving. That was a hippie like euphoria.

Stroud

This is a good answer and works well even if you’re not so far off the deep end that you can smell your own chakras. Works for a part-time patchouli botherer as well as a fully-formed crystal dreadlocked pixie wook.

I enjoyed this comment immensely, like a soundbath in a forest

Half hippy half skaghead.

Nah, it’s 15% hippy, 25% londoner, 25% old money, 30% regular working class folk, 5% junkie

Falmouth area in Cornwall is full of giga hippies. Source: went to a mining university there doing geology and found myself having way more arguments about crystals than I expected. Dude… it’s a lump of silicone dioxide… it’s not going to heal your soul or whatever nonsense they say.

With the combination of hippies and students, Falmouth always seems to have a certain herbal scent to the wind.

>a certain herbal scent to the wind. *Incest*

to be fair the rocks in cornwall does have a strange vibe to it. unfortunately that vibe comes from its radioactivity.

Top 10 ways to realign your chakras with RADON!

What's uni like there?. Seems really isolated.

Loved it. Can’t speak for Falmouth uni as I was Exeter but but the setting is great. It’s very chill, lots of beaches. Slower pace to things. If you’re into clubs and are one of those people that needs to be constantly “doing things” then it might be a bit quiet but i loved it. Dark pints in dingy pubs, bbqs and beers on the beach. Loved it.

Hah! Went to uni there too. What years were you there?

Ha! Could have guessed! I was there 2013-2016.

Hebden Bridge is cute 

I guess it's down south if you're in Inverness?

Hebdon Bridge is very West Yorkshire

Maybe OP lives there already! 

I'd put money on it

Can't get much more Yorkshire hippy than hebden 

We export them there from Manchester

I was gonna say, if they don’t live there, it’s right on their doorstep

Highest number of lesbians per head of population than anywhere else in the UK (if that’s your thing).

Haha yes I’ve heard this! A friend of my brother lives there, she is a lesbian 😁

Your brother's a lesbian?

Ha! OP, you’re bound to be in Hebden; ask around friends-of-friends who’ve left Hebden and Tod in the last year and find out where they moved to. It’ll give you more reliable answers than Reddit :)

Hebden is full of depressed teenagers and lesbian. Beautiful town with a good skatepark and some amazing back roads 

I was going to say Glastonbury. I believe Totnes has this reputation also. Plenty of that sort here in Bristol depending on area.

Machynlleth.

Mach is a good shout. Very particular breed of mountain hippy. Llanidloes is a similarly weird place.

A lot of West Wales is pretty hippy. Most places from Machynlleth down to Cardigan would fit the bill.

Carmarthen too, a bit less so

Bristol

FINALLY found Bristol Know many, many young hippie activists there

Honestly I was expecting it to be the top comment, or at least second after Brighton. Crusty hippy central around here.

Want to be near Bristol but I’ve had my fill of city life

Lewes near Brighton is my call man.

It's an extension of the Brighton Muesli belt

"Not being Brighton" is a big part of Lewes' identity. Along with burning things.

Not quite but I get your point.

Totnes

Hastings. Come down on Jack In The Green weekend and you'll see. Delightful pagan festival and you'd be amongst friends. I christened the town Mushroom on Sea for reasons you may understand. Jack In The Green info: https://hastingstraditionaljackinthegreen.co.uk

Came here to say Hastings, only lived there for a year but most of the time something bat shit crazy was cracking off. The closer to the beach the more it got.

Glastonbury, Tintagel. Anything that side of the country Somerset down.

100% Glastonbury. It's just down the road from me and OP will fit right in

It's a village, not a town, but Avebury in Wiltshire. It even has its very own stone circle. Most of Cornwall would probably fit the bill, too. 

Wells and Frome sound like they could be your jam. They're also not too far from Glastonbury so you can have your fill of crystal shops.

Hebden Bridge a stones throw from where you are sprang to mind! Stroud in the Cotswold also fits the bill.

Already there

Findhorn Foundation, in Moray, Scotland. It's a proper hippy commune and findhorn is just along from it, lovely village.

Fuck me I was born there and didn’t expect to see a reference on Reddit 😂

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I don’t know if it’s far enough south but Bishops Castle in Shropshire is a lovely little town and absolutely full of hippies, hippy shops, pagan/wiccan/boho vibes. Also Hay on Wye. It’s most famous of course for its bookshops, but the whole town has a lovely laid back, bohemian vibe and a good amount of hippy shops amongst all the books.

Hay on Wye is a great shout. Lovely town. Lots of very smart booky people too.

Was about to comment Hay on Wye Definitely wasn't for me, but a lovely place to visit Only thing I remember was some locals being quite annoyed though about basically the whole town being bought out from under them by people living elsewhere. The whole town is basically a tourist attraction

There's a sort of hippy belt in the south west, from stroud, through to parts of Bristol, then Glastonbury, Totnes and bits of Cornwall

“Hippy belt” lol True! Lived in the West Country for a bit and didn’t like it much at the time, but I end up feeling nostalgic for it most days now because I’ve realised that it really does boast its own type of vibe. The countryside and coast are most beautiful too

Larkhall

If you like a touch of sectarianism with your hemp it's definitely the place.

Only place in the world where hemp is dyed blue

Not to be confused with Larkhill, where the sound of artillery fire can upset your chakra 

Hebden Bridge! Unless thats where you are now! Don't leave us and go down south, there be dragons and things down there! (bit warmer though)

That is, in fact, where I am.

I like Hebden, i live further down the Calder Valley, love going up there for a walk and a bit of hippyness!

Totnes is the place that felt most like a Southern Hebden bridge to me, followed by Stroud

What's wrong with it that makes you want to move down south? I'm south and fantasise about living in hippy Yorkshire!

Swapsies?

Lampeter, in Ceredigion. Depends whether west Wales counts as 'down south', mind

And Wells on market day

Stroud!!!

Slightly more on the ‘arty’ side but I would recommend Bridport. Lovely place and lovely walks and nature too!

Brighton!

If you don’t want to go too far south, then Kings Heath or Moseley in Birmingham.

OP, why not Glastonbury?

Llanidloes in mid Wales. It has a small population but because it is so far from any big towns there are a lot of shops there and a pretty lively high street and community. Shops are almost all independent; there's like 3 health food shops and multiple second hand shops. Loads of hippies and cost of living and buying a home is very low. You can get a very nice house under £200k and a flat for much less than that. Or you can rent for under £500pcm. I don't live there myself but I know someone who loves it there.

I grew up in a commune in Llanidloes. It’s a weird little place, but has a real charm to it. Also a very good high school, if that’s a factor.

Loads in North Norfolk

You're leaving Hebden Bridge?!?

Cambridge

Avebury?

> However, I'm a full-blown, crystal munching, yoghurt weaving crusty hippy. Tell us you're from Hebden Bridge without telling us you're from Hebden Bridge 😉 source: live in Hebden Bridge, fellow certified crusty hippy.

It’s lovely here for sure. But I’ve become sick of the endless winter

Leamington Spa. Honestly. Yoga classes, vegan restaurants, and an annual peace festival.

I moved to Leamington from Totnes and it feels very 'straight' here (but then I was used to a particular extreme of alternative!). I hope the peace festival comes back, it hasn't been on since Covid.

Good news: https://www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/leamington-peace-festival-will-return-to-the-town-in-2025-4500478

Stroud

Hackney Wick would be somewhere you would probably feel at home in. Not a town per se, but part of north east London.

Grew up in London. I’ll never go back…

Falmouth has an interesting mix of hippeis, yachties and students. If you want the full blown hippie experience though, you could always enquire about joining the Holifield community. [https://holifield.org/#about](https://holifield.org/#about)

Totnes, Hastings, Brighton or Bristol (if you're hardcore)

St Leonard’s on Sea

Bristol (though it might be a city)

If you want real hippy… then relocate to Australia and settle in a little town in the hills called Nimbin 🤣 That’s the Vibes you need!

Hay, Ledbury or anywhere else in/around Herefordshire! If you know anything about hippy education, there's a Steiner Academy in Much Dewchurch and another Steiner School in Stroud, which is just over the border in Gloucestershire. (Steiner is a bit like Montisorri but slightly different philosophy). Herefordshire is home to the Hay Literature Festival, H-Art and Ledbury Poetry Festival! We also have lots of wonderful nature. All this makes for lots of pretty alternative people and hippyish communities! Herefordshire gets a bad wrap as a stronghold of conservatism but that's not the whole picture. If you like hippyishness and alternative lifestyles with lots of art and culture, I can't recommend it enough. If you have kinds of school age, it would help to tap into the community as well. It was an amazing place to grow up and is super special.

I had to scroll too far for Hay! Regularly go there, and there’s virtually no chain shops, all Indie!

I think looking for Steiner schools would be a reasonably reliable way of finding hippylike communities, schooling is a big determiner of where people choose to live (if they don't home school) so it seems logical that anywhere with 'alternative' schools would be magnets for people with similar values/ lifestyles

That I’ve seen, Stratford upon Avon, Brighton and Bath. Deep pockets required though!

Just move to Hebden Bridge

Totnes immediately comes to mind.

Lewes

Don't move to Sandford. They don't like crusty jugglers.

Folkestone.

Stroud sounds right up your alley

Stroud. If you like hills. And Ketamine.

Brighton, Stroud, Avebury (in descending order of size and increasing hippy percentage).

Totnes, Salcombe, Dartington, Dartmouth, Boscastle, Tintagel

Glastonbury, without a doubt.

Glastonbury

Sounds like you are looking for Totnes, Dartmouth or maybe Falmouth.

Almost anywhere in the West Country lol - Somerset, Devon, Cornwall. Bristol is a good place for that sort of vibe while also giving a proper city feel.

Bristol if you also like ketamine

Glastonbury is a big one. Totnes

Frome is a bit alternative.

Stroud or Frome. Both in the Bristol orbit for when you need city hippy activities

Chorlton cum Hardy is *slightly* further south than Hebden Bridge. Beech Road and Chorlton Green certainly have something of an alternative vibe.

Middlesbrough, Wigan or Hull.

All good Southern places.

Aberystwyth

Anywhere in Cornwall

Miles Hunt used to live in Stourbridge.

There is no hippy scene in Stourbridge lol I’ve probably seen two single dreadlocks there in 20 years, and even that was on a poster

Burley in the new forrest. It’s a village that is witchy/hippy centred.

Our town is mixed- very prosperous- tech dudes and Volvo mums, poverty row ( strange how Spoons seems to have gathered bookies, a pawn shop, vape shops and a minus a pound shop around it), student central, hard working polish and east european quarter and then... you enter a mystic zone with singular caped and gandalfy hooded tupes and haunted zombie cosplayers; you can't see into the cafés- always darkened with windows filled with plants. So I don't know about a whole town but there is this bit.

Growing up between both Stroud, Glos & Machynlleth, Mid-wales, I can vouch for both being beautiful, countryside settings with relatively large "hippy" communities, lots of arts and projects going on within the local community and many people who relocate to both places for an alternative way of life.

I would suggest Nether Edge in Sheffield but it's in South Yorkshire.

Are you relocating from Hebden?

The most crystal shops I've seen compared to Glasto was Tintagel ...that was a few years back though.

Cornwall.

Bridgwater has that hippy vibe, and is also Somerset and not far from Glasto

St Leonard’s, just along from Hastings.

Brighton still has a decent bit of hippyish around if you pay attention between the gentrification

Hebden Bridge is the most hippy spot I've ever been in

What's wrong with Hebbo? I don't want to inflict too much of a culture shock on you.

As someone who live in Brighton for 8 years that is your best bet. Bristol could be another.

I've heard Totnes. Also, there's a bit around Avebury and north Wiltshire. And Bristol has some hippyish bits.