Pretty, Good City Planning, Ego-Centric
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8/16/2008
Boulder is mono-chromatic. I always say, for a liberal town, it's pretty conservative. I am from the east coast and once enjoyed a forward sent to me that was a link to a website "stuff white people like" and I found it pretty funny- so I relayed a couple of the blogs to a few friends here that SERIOUSLY didn't get it. They said in a confused, clueless, dry tone, "I guess I just never knew black people or was friends with non-white people". Wow.
Wow.
There is a general forced be-at-one-with-yourself-even-if-you-are-fuming-underneath tone. Yoga is competitive! Christ, I climb, bike, run, bla bla bla and because of this extracurricular resume people suggested that I would fall in love with Boulder. 6 years later and I am afraid I just see people who do these things as a programmed necessity, not enjoyment. They are pretty self indulged and scheduled. Friendships form if you have the same yoga class- that right there is the friendship, not if you have the same sense of humor, or ideas...you mostly meet activity partners.
It's very very expensive, on the flip side I feel like you do see where you tax dollars go- like a good bus system, bike lanes, and open space- but the employment doesn't seem to help you out much. Most people here aren't from here, and I'm pretty sure they brought their money IN and it didn't come from landing that high paying job here.
It's so GREAT when CU is not in session. That school has no qualifications other than being over the age of 10 (maybe). Students behave like it's a mere extension of high school having no direction or passion or clue as who they are or what they want to do, so alas, "Mom, dad, I think I'm going to go to CU". They are loud, careless, and destructive and annoying. The town exhales when summer break and Christmas rolls around.
sophie | Boulder, CO