It was filled with homeless "mall maggots" 40 years ago. It's got no middle class. Lots of trust fund spending people living their adolescence into their 40s and 50s. Nobody's "from" there-they all moved in from somewhere else. The kids that grew up there in the 70s and 80s can't afford to live there, so they moved on.
I went to Boulder about 5 years ago I guess and I definitely thought it was going to be a little bit like Bend, Oregon is. Great coffee shops, small town fancy, good places to eat, go out etc - and it was nothing like that at all.
It's really just a series of strip malls along 28th street - granted there is Pearl Street which has a few okay places but nothing amazing, but in general it was really not what I expected.
I get it from a running POV - good elevation, good weather. Some really nice longer running/hill training spots not far from town, but I can't imagine it's that great to actually live there if you aren't a student at CU or in a pro group making money (which means you are young and don't really care where you live anyway).
Boulder was definitely a let-down, thought it would be way nicer.
I have been talking about the downside of Boulder for several years.
Boulder is full of people who pretend they are homeless, yet they all own Apple 16 pro max phones, they drive leased BMWs, and they eat at all the little overpriced food shops in town about 5-6 times per week. The only people of color you see in Boulder are the athletes from CU. And the city has an unpleasant smell about it, like no one bathes or shaves, women included.
Boulder’s become filthy and overrated. The city’s crawling with trash, homelessness, and neglect, yet it still pretends to be some perfect mountain paradise. It’s overpriced, grimy, and nowhere near as special as people make it out to be.
It was filled with homeless "mall maggots" 40 years ago. It's got no middle class. Lots of trust fund spending people living their adolescence into their 40s and 50s. Nobody's "from" there-they all moved in from somewhere else. The kids that grew up there in the 70s and 80s can't afford to live there, so they moved on.
Honestly, Boulder is great. It’s a quick drive to Denver where there are lots of jobs and it’s like the number #1 place in the US for working remote. It’s also a very quick drive to Denver International Airport.
all the bums from Denver are driving into Boulder every weekday to work whereas the traffic going the other way out of Boulder is minimal
Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal lives here in a house he paid $6M for.
I have been talking about the downside of Boulder for several years.
Boulder is full of people who pretend they are homeless, yet they all own Apple 16 pro max phones, they drive leased BMWs, and they eat at all the little overpriced food shops in town about 5-6 times per week. The only people of color you see in Boulder are the athletes from CU. And the city has an unpleasant smell about it, like no one bathes or shaves, women included.
If you’re looking to smell better, they have a decent cologne selection in Boulder at the Ulta store on Arapahoe
Lived in Boulder for a few years, and I have to admit that it was painfully disappointing. Now that I’ve left, the entire running community looks like a delusional cult to me. The running is pretty good, but there are plenty of other amazing places to train. The dating scene is abysmal. There is no diversity. There are very few attractive people. Outside of the university and the pro athletes who live there, there really aren’t any young people so it is very boring and isolating. The pro athletes can’t even afford to live in Boulder so they’re all stuck out in the suburbs (Funbarrel and Schlongmont). The OAC gym is located in a 1 star shopping center. I wish I could drag everyone out of that dump so they know what they’re missing out on.
Boulder is a soft jogger town now, just deal with it. If pro runners want to live here then they should have invested better or should start winning more. Women have never preferred autistic incels when given a choice, that's not a Boulder thing. If you think you're too good to run on the Creek Path then maybe it's best that you leave. You probably aren't going to run better than you did here, mostly because you can't travel to races and let it drop that you live in Boulder.
I like various kinds of “diversity.” If you’re not in a big, cosmopolitan city, though, please tell me: where (when COL is as high as it is in Boulder or wherever) do you approve of the “diversity”?
The dating scene is abysmal. There is no diversity. There are very few attractive people. Outside of the university and the pro athletes who live there, there really aren’t any young people
bro what?
there are 38 thousands students at CU boulder.
Thats a lot of young people...and trust me there are a lot of hot girls at that campus.
boulder has an insane amount of young prime girls boyo
I literally had to quit my first job in Boulder because my female co-workers kept trying to seduce me. I don't know what to tell you. I just woke up too damn handsome for Boulder. They're going to have to take me off the market and put me in a museum one day.
I literally had to quit my first job in Boulder because my female co-workers kept trying to seduce me. I don't know what to tell you. I just woke up too damn handsome for Boulder. They're going to have to take me off the market and put me in a museum one day.
nah it's nice you just have to have money to afford living there. I liked the Superior/Louisville area better...quick access to Boulder/Denver and plenty of running options. I lived by Davidson Mesa and ran there often before it was even a "pro group spot." It was nice while we lived there: family oriented, etc. Where I live now Boulder is a dream comparatively.