ANyone live in Boulder, CO?

[Newbie 0]

I was reading about it today, sounds like a very happening place, and lots to do for outdoorsy types.

Anyone care to share what it's really like? I've never been there before.

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[Squeak 17]

Sartre lives in CO but i dont know how far from Boulder, I do know Mork and Mindy live there though

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[skysprite 0]

My Uncle used to live there so I used to visit all the time. From a visitor's perspective, it's a beautiful area! Generally speaking the people up there are a different brand of people than I'm used to, but overall everyone's very nice. My Uncle would talk all the time about going hiking and doing the outdoorsy type stuff you mentioned.

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[benblee 0]

It's like heaven. It really is the perfect place to be and there is a reason it's known for that all over the world. I lived there for 4 years and every day felt like vacation. The weather gets tripped up coming over the mountains so when Denver gets 3 feet of snow, Boulder gets 6 inches in the morning and then it's 70 degrees and sunny by two in the afternoon. Oh yeah, they have a ton of micro-brews there all within walking or biking distance. I went a full year with no car, I biked 30 miles a day, the total cost to go snowboarding on some of the best slopes in the world came out to be $7 a day after gas, PB&J and the lift tickets. Just get to know the locals game and you'll wonder why anyone lives on the east coast. I almost forgot to mention that Boulder gets more days of sunshine then Hawaii per year (and yes they are warm 70 and 80 degree days by the pool).

Wow, maybe I need to get back out there.

Ben Lee
www.CollegeSkydiving.com

[sartre 0]

Oh please. More days for sitting out by the pool than Hawaii?

I've lived near Boulder for 12 years. While it's a nice city, it's not some magical mecca immune to winters and other realities. If you're into outdoorsy stuff, Boulder's great but then so is most of Colorado for that.

Perhaps someone who is currently living there and has done so for some time could give a more realistic picture.

[benblee 0]

You said it yourself, you lived NEAR Boulder. I lived IN Boulder and yes that is realistic.

I guess the more people that want to stay away from there, the more room for me!

Ben Lee
www.CollegeSkydiving.com

[sartre 0]

Funny, I still do live here, and I keep seeming to miss the part of the newscasts where they say, "High today in Denver, 53. Highlands Ranch 56. Boulder, 85 and sunny."

I call BS.

And I never said I wanted to stay away from Boulder. I said it's a city like many others. Some people love it, others hate it, some people say the people who live there smoke pot and don't take showers.

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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I was reading about it today, sounds like a very happening place, and lots to do for outdoorsy types.

Lived there for fifteen years and then made the mistake of selling my home and moving to Seattle. Allegedly the highest per-capita number of restraunts of anywhere, decent but not exceptional live music, not much theater, great outdoor activities (40,000 acres of openspace for 80,000 residents). Skiing 40 minutes away. Turbine DZ fifteen minutes outside city limits.

Not very ethnically diverse (although there is a killer carniceria, exceptional sushi, decent vietnamese/thai/korean).

Allegedly very liberal, although there's a trap range within city limits at the VFW and Boulder rifle club with almost weekly practical pistol shoots open to non-members (the waiting list is pushing a decade for membership).

While not cheap compared to places you wouldn't want to live, it's a lot less pricey than places you would (subtract a million from Bay Area prices) and taxes are low (like 4.4% state income tax, $1500 in property taxes on a $275K townhouse and not allowed to increase beyond the rate of inflation).

Global warming sucks there though. Too many days have been over 90 the last few years. It is a dry heat, but 99 degrees stinks anyways.

[ryoder 1,590]

I'm about 10 minutes from Boulder. It's cold and snowy here all year 'round. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

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[RkyMtnHigh 0]

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I'm about 10 minutes from Boulder. It's cold and snowy here all year 'round. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

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[davadikian 1]

Dude I lived IN Boulder and you're high... It does get cold during the winter (6 months out of the year) and when it snows Boulder is NOT immune, that is why they close 92 and 36, because of snow and ice NOT because it is too sunny. The whole time I was there all I heard is how warm 40 degrees is, then I would ask them "where are you from" they would say "the mid-west". Now there ARE a lot of "warm" days compared to the mid-west but most of the time if its winter and the sun is out it is still 40 or less degrees outside. I will tell you after winter this last year in Boulder I was mind washed, it was soo cold for soo long that 40 degrees DID seem warm. (oh yeah everyone told me it hasn't been like this for 40 years...) Boulder has its positives I did some rock climbing, snowboarding, and hiking and there are countless other things to do, but take it for what its worth, it isn't a utopia its just another place to live.

Oh yeah, by the way, when its 40 degrees on the ground guess what the temp is at altitude?

Fucking cold below 0

[benblee 0]

Well I'm in Atlanta right now and the weather is perfect here, never too hot or humid and you hardly need air conditioning. Oh yeah, and the winter is always comfortable. Hahaha. During my time out there the temperature during the winter was never more than 5 or 10 degrees off of the temp in Atlanta. These temps minus humidity is just about perfect.

If I could choose, I'd say Boulder.

So, who has ever heard the saying "Go East young man"?
Do you think there's a reason for that.

Ben Lee
www.CollegeSkydiving.com