I live in Colorado and visit Boulder about once a week for one reason or another. I also attend most of their tech/startup meetups and events. (Returned home ju

I live in Colorado and visit Boulder about once a week for one reason or another. I also attend most of their tech/startup meetups and events. (Returned home just an hour ago from the Colorado Green Tech Meetup, for example.) One of the great things about Boulder compared to the rest of Colorado is that it is the closest thing we have to a community built around ideas, innovation, education, science, progress, justice, health and sustainability. And therefore draws and keeps people who care about these things. Sounds like great stuff to me. How could one not like those things? The negative stereotypes are also true, in some ways, (ex-60's-hippies, trustafarians, spoiled university kids, so-called-environmentalists-driving-huge-ass-SUV's-with-black-windows-talking-on-cellphones-while-driving-in-the-rain, etc.) but I think the positive aspects of the town far outweigh the negative. You go to Boulder, you can mentally mask out the occasional dreadlock. You go to Colorado Springs or Federal Heights, you are not going to simply mentally will into existence a coffee house or auditorium full of techies, progressives, investors, serial entrepreneurs, or scientists. Because they are just not there. Not enough anyway.