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This makes me wonder if there's a word for what I am. I'm frugal, and do things for myself and buy as much of my belongings secondhand as I can (with the occasional splurge on that perfect new thing) which makes me sound boho, but I don't like the boho "look". I like a polished, elegant aesthetic (not that I always achieve it).
Not bad. Both parts of the portmanteau stem from French. That's good.
But I'm not sure people will be able to parse the parts when they hear the term for the first time and understand the insult/joke. Fauxhemien! No, that's a joke that needs explaining.
(It's really clever you see. It's part faux and part bohémien. Because these hipsters are not really poor and on the edge of society. Get it?)
Of course the original bohémiens were not gipsies or from Bohemia either. Just city dwelling characters. Fakers! So a fauxhémien is a fake fake gipsy. Hm.
This makes me wonder if there's a word for what I am.
Easy, you're an orange swan. You can tell people that when you meet them and they ask to pin a label to you, or if you're looking for a quick bit of self-identity.