Any of you live there, or have you lived there in past couple of years? I'm looking at a job at a company that's based in Boulder, and I've never even been to Colorado. I'm an outdoorsy person, so I suspect I'll love the scenery, but aside from that, I'm clueless.

What's the cost of living? Higher or lower than the Raleigh-Durham area? Are the people nice? Good drivers? Is it clean? Any comments or suggestions you have, please post! Thanks!

1/31/2008 7:15:53 PM

You can prepare for your move by smoking lots of pot.

1/31/2008 7:23:11 PM

Big drug community up there? Or just hippies? Or one and the same?

1/31/2008 7:23:53 PM

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"I'm an outdoorsy person"

Boulder is the place for you, hands down

1/31/2008 7:24:35 PM

i want to go

1/31/2008 7:24:59 PM

Boulder is an awesome place to live.

1/31/2008 7:27:11 PM

Just lots of hippies. The last time I was there I was walking through the pedestrian mall (which is actually really cool) and had college kids stop me and ask if I could give them money for pot. Aside from pot and psychedlics I don't think that the drug culture there is any worse than it is here.

If you like skiing its a great place to live.

1/31/2008 7:28:18 PM

Colorado has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, obesity rate in the nation

why? because on the weekends everybody goes and climbs mountains or whatever. Also there's a lot of vegans over there

1/31/2008 7:29:54 PM

^ It's only 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park. A great place to hike!

1/31/2008 7:30:43 PM

Thanks for the comments...any ideas about the cost of living? I'm sure Google can help me out, but I figured I'd see if any of you know firsthand. I'm kinda psyched about the possibility.

1/31/2008 8:49:25 PM

Unos, dos, tres, catorce....

1/31/2008 8:54:39 PM

Its not called "The People's Republic of Boulder" for nothing: though left-wing philosophy seems to stop at free housing for all comrades (i.e. housing is relatively expensive at least anywhere close to the city (commune)).

The mall is pretty neat: I wonder if the contortionist fellow is still there?

If you like rock climbing, its certainly the place to be.

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1/31/2008 8:55:13 PM

i'd live in boulder in a heartbeat - in fact, i hope to move out there in a few yrs. the only weird thing about the place is pearl street mall, w/ all the homeless looking kids that are high (or are pretending to be, i couldn't figure it out). otherwise, it's hella cool. def a fantastic place for outdoor enthusiasts. is there any way you could visit before accepting the job?

1/31/2008 8:58:58 PM

take chapel hill, put it next to the rockies, and you'd have boulder, co

i live in denver, co btw

1/31/2008 9:00:30 PM

^^^ Was Ward Churchill a professor there or was it a different CO school?

1/31/2008 9:16:49 PM

housing is relatively expensive at least anywhere close to the city

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1/31/2008 9:17:54 PM

Position filled.

Ah well...maybe I'll look towards Seattle.

2/1/2008 4:50:22 PM

My old roommate is stationed out there and loves it. Its another great place to live if you love the outdoors.

2/1/2008 4:52:55 PM

Oh, I do. I'm so very sick of office life - I'd love to have some good outdoor distractions for the weekends. There are some around here, but I don't like driving so far for them.

2/1/2008 4:55:27 PM

Someone on here lives there but I can't remember who-I haven't seen the name in a while. gimme a minute if you still care. I live in Littleton ~40 miles from Boulder

It is jdman He is in Grad School there

V somewhere in the NW area I think, I was talking about Boulder


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2/1/2008 4:56:05 PM

Wasn't theDuke866 out there?

2/1/2008 4:57:59 PM