Lissa Harris in The Watershed Post reports that Monday, July 18, Gothamist interviewed They Might Be Giants member John Flansburgh who says both members of the band have a place upstate:

"We both have little weekend retreat laboratories in the Catskills. The Catskills is the new Williamsburg. There, I said it! There is more artisanal pork being butchered there than anywhere else."

Williamsburg is considered the hipster center of Brooklyn, although it is also home to a large Hasidic and Hispanic communities. Harris then quotes Alia Hanna Habib at Upstater, a new-ish blog about real estate in upstate New York, reacting to the Flansburgh quote. Habib writes:

"...what I really love about Greene County (aside from the natural beauty and the fainting goats at Catskill Mountain Country Store) is feeling there’s a place for me there. I could afford to buy a home, which had long been a dream of mine and was simply not a possibility in my Brooklyn neighborhood. And perhaps that’s why the NYC neighborhood/Upstate town comps can feel a little icky. I don’t want East Jewett (or Cornwallsville or even Saugerties) to become the next Williamsburg. The lack of pretension and the low density and the low pricing are the things that make being Upstate feel so good, especially when you live and work in a big city. And trust me: if I really believed the Catskills were going to become Williamsburg, I wouldn’t be broadcasting my love for them here. I’m guessing John Flansburgh feels the same."

The YouTube video is They Might Be Giants' "Canajoharie," a song off their new album Join Us, from a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, October 2, 2010.