Adjective: Often used by yuppies, hipsters, or liberal news outlets to describe "cool" and "authentic" neighborhoods full of working-class, predominantly ethnic people and businesses.
Vibrant is not usually used to describe "the hood" though--a vibrant neighborhood is a neighborhood where it's jumpin', but you won't get jumped.
Kelsey: Man, I love the Mission! Look at all these amazing Mexican murals on the buildings.
Cody: This is such a vibrant neighborhood. Let's go get pupusas.
Newscaster: Local residents of the vibrant Midtown neighborhood are fighting to keep from being evicted in the face of rising rent prices.
