to barber shop or hair salon

That is the question. For years and years it was barber shop until the local grocery had a hair salon open up inside the store and started to threaten the barber shop throne.
Pros for the barber shop are price ($10 inc. tip) and the all important man factor. The barbers and customers are men, there are newspapers laying around and even a laddie magazine or two. Your more likely to hear a crude joke or sports talk and you get a straight razor shave on the back of the neck with a nice musky smell. A barber once told me "it's getting harder and harder to keep you from looking ugly." See the barbershop scene in Gran Torino for more of the same.
The most glaring con is the quality of the haircut which is important.

Pros for hair salons are that the quality is much better and the ladies clip the all-important ear hairs and long eybrows. This is getting more important every year.
Cons are the price ($15 inc. tip) and the sterile atmosphere where I feel pressure to keep the conversation interesting.
I still favor the barbershop experience but the hair salon has been gaining since they opened. If only I could just take a pill to slow down the eyebrows and ear hairs.