Well, I live here and love it. I am on mountain bike trails within minutes of my front door. Great food/bars, great music scene, 4x4 trails only a few miles away. My neighbors are alway hanging out. They do need another shooting club since the one we have has a 15 year waiting list.
I sort of assumed it would be a bashing thread, but I was looking for specific reasons people feel that way, instead of these generic ones with its liberal, people there are pompous, ect.
Everyone there is friendly (maybe except for the college dudes)
you can walk outside and have a breath taking view from anywhere in the city.
you can drive or ride five m inutes and be in the middle of nowhere in the mountains.
So it seems that this has turned into a "Bashing boulder" sort-of thread.
Anyone have anything good to say about Boulder?
I seem to recall saying it was a great place to visit, but that probably got skimmed over
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Originally Posted by Parky
Well, I live here and love it. I am on mountain bike trails within minutes of my front door. Great food/bars, great music scene, 4x4 trails only a few miles away. My neighbors are alway hanging out. They do need another shooting club since the one we have has a 15 year waiting list.
I sort of assumed it would be a bashing thread, but I was looking for specific reasons people feel that way, instead of these generic ones with its liberal, people there are pompous, ect.
Seeing as how my opinions come from personal experience, I would call that specific. I actually considered going to CU Boulder before I thought about CSU, but the town turned me off.
I think Boulder is a beautiful town, but visiting there the few times that I have wasn't anything special beyond the natural beauty around the town itself. I think the college influence and the town somehow getting the "granola" label has made it a place to be visited primarily by people that want to "embrace nature" and look down their noses at anyone that drinks from a plastic bottle or drives a car. This perception is probably no where near reality, but I don't see the City of Boulder doing much to change it either. Just my 2 cents...
Boulder is another town in Colorado. This is the first I've ever heard of it being something different.
It's often called the San Fransisco of the Rockies, with some reason.
However, it's really not THAT bad. Much cleaner than SF, too.
Boulder's left wingnuts tend more towards environmental issues than social issues... though you'll find both of course.
I wouldn't live there even if I could afford it, and I won't drive a Subaru as long as I live in CO, but it's a beautiful city with lots of great reasons to visit.
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It's often called the San Fransisco of the Rockies, with some reason.
However, it's really not THAT bad. Much cleaner than SF, too.
Boulder's left wingnuts tend more towards environmental issues than social issues... though you'll find both of course.
I wouldn't live there even if I could afford it, and I won't drive a Subaru as long as I live in CO, but it's a beautiful city with lots of great reasons to visit.
Ive never been to SF so I cant talk from experience, but from what I heard about it, seen on shows like dateline, 20/20, heard from the people that do live there on the diferent 4x4 forums Im on, I could see where someone would make that statement....
but like Ive already said, theres reasons I do NOT even drive through that town.
to be fair, every town, every city in America, will have a few people that dont like it, for whatever reason.
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