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A small college town with at least a handful of tech companies. Boulder, CO was close to that for a while, but it has become far too expensive and is turning in
by rhexs 10y ago
A small college town with at least a handful of tech companies. Boulder, CO was close to that for a while, but it has become far too expensive and is turning into Bay Area Lite. Still a beautiful city if you're rich or well off.
Knoxville, TN always looked like a great place. Great outdoors, decent weather, smallish, good job market for the size.
- sverige 10y agoBoulder has been very expensive since the late '80s when the Danish plan was enacted (named after local Paul Danish, not Denmark). No more than two or three building permits were issued in Boulder proper over the course of 15 or 20 years, which naturally made the existing housing stock ridiculously expensive. It's actually the textbook example of how to ruin a good thing by trying to prevent it from ever changing with restrictive laws.
- ghaff 10y agoIn general, "college towns" can be a good choice if you don't want a big city but want some access to culture/food/etc. College towns often punch [EDIT: above] their population weight in those respects.