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Yes but it's Boulder, the promised land, according to here
by edrxty 3y ago
Yes but it's Boulder, the promised land, according to here
- Someguy1098 3y agoBeen there. It's very expensive and crowded but it's really nice being like 15 minutes from some of the nicest hiking trails in the country.
- ttyprintk 3y agoThe city and county GIS is exceptional. Backpacking and camping permits are egalitarian, but you need to plan months or years ahead.
- jebarker 3y agoThe GIS has been really helpful when we've had close by fires too
- jebarker 3y agoI live in Boulder. It's certainly expensive, although more reasonable than some of the other popular tech cities. I honestly don't think of it as crowded though. There's tourist spots to avoid, but plenty of open space for all.
- Someguy1098 3y agoI found it crowded. I guess it depends on where you're coming from. On weekends, It takes 3 hours to make (what should be) a 1 hour drive at 5AM going to the mountain to ski, very difficult to find parking at most trailheads, camping spots are pretty much swamped on the peak to peak...etc. etc. But I guess if you're coming from L.A. or somewhere that kind of traffic isn't too bad lol And that's not all Boulder traffic, I'm sure there's a lot of Denver and surrounding city population crush, was just miserable on the weekends I found.
- jebarker 3y agoOh yeah, definitely not disputing the I-70 traffic on weekends, it's bad!
- justinator 3y ago>and crowded Oh yes, with the 5 story limit of the height of the buildings - and a year over year growth of 1%. Super crowded.
- jeffbee 3y agoThe CAGR is 0.1%, 0.6%, or 0.4%, over 10, 20, or 30 years respectively.
- bobthepanda 3y agoCAGR is misleading because it tracks population when what is more important is household growth. Household size has fallen from 2.63 in 1993 to 2.51 today, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but means you need 5% more houses to hold the same number of people.
- jeffbee 3y agoYes, and there is a general misunderstanding, mostly a willful misunderstanding among older, established homeowners, of the fact that you need to build more housing just to keep the population the same, especially when older people are squatting on empty family-sized homes.
- Someguy1098 3y agoWouldn't 5 story limit's on buildings just make it feel more crowded by constraining the growth?
- justinator 3y agoI don't follow. "It feels crowded because not everyone can live there?".
- Someguy1098 3y agoIt feels crowded because instead of being able to increase density vertically the density has to be increased horizontally.
- mp05 3y agoBoulder is the worst best small town in America. You know what I mean.
- CPLX 3y agoBoulder is more accurately described as a neighborhood or region of Denver. If that’s not obvious today it certainly will be when the staggering construction in Arvada, Broomfield, and so on, has filled in all of the areas that could plausibly be used to argue otherwise.
- jlarocco 3y agoPart of the reason it's so expensive here, though, is the swath of city and county owned open space around the outskirts of town. Maybe some day it'll get developed, but I think it'll be a long time before that can happen.
- patrick451 3y agoIt's not a small town, but rather a suburb of Denver.
- justinator 3y agoIt's 25 miles away from Denver.
- patrick451 3y agoWhat's your point? Denver is a massive sprawling metro.
- Sparkle-san 3y agoThere's still a lot of open space between Boulder and the surrounding cities. I'd argue Denver ends in that direction at Broomfield.
- Eumenes 3y agoToo commercial, too many rich brats, expensive, nice access to nature but too crowded. The western side of the Rockies are superior imo.