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So I'm thinking of moving. - minorthreat - 09-20-2005

I hate my job and stuff. I have a friend in Boulder Co. that wants me to move out there and play bass for his band. Serious advice only please. Thanks.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Havoc - 09-20-2005

Boulder is a great town. Go and have fun. Wish I could go back.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - minorthreat - 09-20-2005

I hear it's full of hippies.




And still Anna knows pills.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - snarg - 09-20-2005

do it
get the hell out of iowa

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Blondie - 09-20-2005

Iowa???

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Blondie - 09-20-2005

great!

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So I'm thinking of moving. - minorthreat - 09-20-2005

Blondie Wrote:Iowa???

Der?

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Blondie - 09-20-2005

yeah..cool....

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So I'm thinking of moving. - minorthreat - 09-20-2005

Blondie Wrote:yeah..cool....

I said SERIOUS! Damn you!

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Blondie - 09-20-2005

minorthreat Wrote:Der?

DER! fucker! RECOGNIZE!

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So I'm thinking of moving. - minorthreat - 09-20-2005

Blondie Wrote:DER! fucker! RECOGNIZE!

Stop talking "Gangsta".

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Tribal Dragon - 09-20-2005

Boulder is fucking money.

There are hippies, but that's not the entire city. Here are some of your views.
If I had a job in Boulder, I'd live there.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Tribal Dragon - 09-20-2005

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Boulder: The view from the Pearl Street overpass, downtown with the University of Colorado
and Chautauqua Park sloping up into the thrusting granite faces of the Flatirons
BEST OVERALL
Boulder, CO
Metro Population: 278,230 • Median Household Income: $59,808 • Median Home Price: $259,100 • Climate: Perfect Rocky Mountain summers in the 80s; not-too-snowy winters
They come from everywhere, Boulderites. From Tallahassee, Sheboygan, L.A., New York. Especially New York. But that isn't why Boulder, a stony little college town*turned*minimetropolis that abuts the Front Range of the Rockies, is the outdoorsman's NYC. No, Boulder hit No. 1 on this list for the third year in a row for a simple reason: There is no town that offers so much, on so many levels, to so many people. Want to run your dog on 40,000 acres of open space at the edge of town before clocking in at your tech job? Practice your Eskimo roll and then walk two blocks for a spicy tuna roll? In Boulder, you can. "I moved here 12 years ago, near the end of a long career," says six-time Ironman winner Dave Scott. "There are lots of urban amenities, and an athletic, healthy atmosphere like almost no place else."

Boulder was founded in 1858 as a gold-mining town, but the city the world knows today was founded on the weed-sale profits of a few enterprising outdoorsy types who snatched up property in the 1970s -- or so it's rumored. They must have told a few friends, because high demand is driving the median home price up toward the $300s (annual appreciation is 11 percent). Spend big here ($700,000 and up) and you'll likely have an open-space trailhead within eyeshot of your North Boulder living room; buy on a budget (under $250,000), and you're looking at a fixer-upper townhouse a few miles from the Pearl Street pedestrian mall, the city's social hub. Which is to say that Boulder's appeal -- 246 days of sunshine, a scant 14 snow days a year, drive-up access to Colorado's 24 ski resorts, upscale groceries, creative restaurants, a ring of open space around town -- is a mixed blessing. Population has nearly doubled since 1971, to 100,000 residents (with 200,000 more in the suburbs of Longmont, Broomfield, and Westminster, which were veritable truck stops until the '90s). And it's not the most diverse population. Half of Boulderites are home-owners. Half are single. A third have college degrees. Seventy percent voted for Kerry and likely know someone who works at the New York Times.

Job-wise, Boulder fancies itself the Silicon Valley of the Rockies, with firms such as IBM and Sun Microsystems keeping 8,000 people in Gore-Tex, and a few dozen smaller companies taking up the slack. Then there's the retail and restaurant end of things, which accounts for 40 percent of Boulder's tax dollars. And, of course, there's the University of Colorado at Boulder, with its 30,000 students and faculty. Fortunately, the last 10-plus growth years have rendered the college scene more of a backdrop than a social force. Yes, there's "the Hill," where Abercrombie-clad frat boys burn sofas as if by birthright. But avoid the Hill and Boulder is a damn near perfect place to live -- especially if your definition of perfect includes yoga-fit triathlete moms and Sunday outings to the Continental Divide. --Mike Kessler

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Belle - 09-20-2005

Move to Boulder.. I'll even let you fly me out for a week!

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So I'm thinking of moving. - minorthreat - 09-20-2005

It is starting to appeal to me more and more every week.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - leucetios - 09-20-2005

say hi to turtle for me when you move


seriously: I say get the hell out of Iowa. You're young. If you hate your job, and have something to do in CO, then go for it. Carpe Boulder, and all that.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - VitaminE - 09-20-2005

Lots of hippies! I attended a week long shindig at the IBM campus out there. It was pretty epoch. I met the nerdy techie chick in the class. One night after work at the hotel bar she kept saying how she needed to drop 10-15 pounds. I was thinking she could drop 40+. Jokingly I said I was looking to drop a couple table spoons. 30 minutes later we were in my room renting porn and stuff. She was pretty ugly, my perfomance suffered.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - cLaY - 09-20-2005

i'd come visit you in Boulder, but probably not Iowa.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - Tribal Dragon - 09-20-2005

leucetios Wrote:say hi to turtle for me when you move


seriously: I say get the hell out of Iowa. You're young. If you hate your job, and have something to do in CO, then go for it. Carpe Boulder, and all that.

I thought that fukker lived in Broomfield.

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So I'm thinking of moving. - PurpleHaze - 09-20-2005

minorthreat Wrote:I hear it's full of hippies.




And still Anna knows pills.

I guess that explains it. :lol2: A lot of my husband's old hippy college friends live there. I hear it's beautiful.

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