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a country with no borders, populated entirely by people who ruined dinner with their opinions on art.
means a social scene of artists, writers, and other beautifully unemployable people who value creative freedom over rent stability.
from french romantics assumed the roma people wandering paris had come from bohemia (a region now in the czech republic), so they slapped the name on anyone living outside respectable society — the geography was wrong, the vibe stuck.
coined byhonore de balzac, 1834, in a magazine essay
popularizedpuccini's la boheme made poverty sound gorgeous, 1896
actual bohemiaa real place, now western czechia, no beatniks
modern heirany neighborhood right before the rent triples