boulder views
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4/24/2007
Boulder is basically of the affluent and anglo, these days. In it's past, it was bohemian and attracted much of what you might expect in what was a more out of the way mountain/college town, leaning to left politically; now it likes to think it is while seeming more like the Hollywood version of a number of college and mountain towns rolled into one glossy package. It can be rather "yuppie progressive" versus truly enlightened - a "progressive" that can seem a bit more watered down, PC-derived, or removed from most people's realities to make some of the differences many Boulderites might expect. Open space and growth policies have, while keeping the obscene Denver sprawl and "Anywhere, America" at bay, made for an exclusive and uniform sort of population for the most part. The University of Colorado has been touted by Princeton Review as being an undergraduate place with a party-/recreation-minded place, and by graduate school rankings as being among the best in the world.
Jeff | Denver, CO