Review of Boulder, Colorado


Boulder
Star Rating - 8/13/2007
Boulder pros/ cons

Pros
1. Very pretty city 2. excellent schools 3. good shops and rests. 4. very low
crime rate

Cons
1. the way many of the people act is repulsive" very of a much me, me, me
mentality 2. ungodly expensive compared to what many people actually make
who live in Boulder 3. poor air quality 4. zero diversity 5. traffic is
a constant headache 6. many of the Boulderites act like they are better
and superior to everyone else. 7. CU has a reputation for being of the top
party schools, so unless you enjoy listening to parties choose wisely where
you live 8. if you are a liberal person, this is a good fit, however, if you
are conservative you will not fit in. Boulder is one of the most liberal minded cities in the US along with...Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Madison and
Cambridge.9. Many people move to Boulder with the expectation that this is
the Boulder of 1960's and 1970's it is not, although, it is still a very liberal minded city.
DF | Topeka, KS
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I would say that the restaurants of Boulder are somewhat sub- what you might expect from an "upscale" city. the traffic is actually not bad (like nothing relative to the SF Bay Area, DC, etc.), though the growth restrictions make for much more traffic than might otherwise exist in Boulder (many can no longer afford to live in Boulder, but still have to work there, while not necessarily being inclined to ride a bike or take a bus...and there's no rail). i would also say that Boulder's "liberal" is probably more the kind of liberal you might find in a Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) than in the union leadership of Detroit, in Vermont, in Europe, etc.. It reminds some people of how actors buy Priuses and espouse "you MUST vote" without considering the cost of a Prius for the average person, or whether voting is actually a good thing when people do not know what they are voting on (or the complexities of a measure's repercussions). True that Boulder is not liberal like Ithaca (or Greenwich of the 60s), NY, Santa Cruz, CA, Cambridge, MASS, or Berkeley, CA of the 60s.
kevin | Denver, CO | Report Abuse
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