I was born in Boulder...and grew up to college age there.
What I just read is NOT the Boulder I left...
The Boulder I left was football games, parades with a lot of horses downtown...rodeos..
Of course we are talking decades ago...but, I did notice in the years after I moved to Texas...and would go for a visit...the "atmosphere" did change..
LOL..I have to admit though...that I am jealous. My father built our home by himself on an acre of land...and when we moved they sold it for 15,000.
According to this article...I think I am gonna be sick.
State College/Penn State is another example where old alumni have no clue how much the place has slumped down into the muck since they attended, when it was football games, rah-rah, etc.
LOL, I hear ya. My Uncle used to live in Boulder. He was about as far from the people described in the article as a person could get.
There are 2 things that happened to make Boulder the way it is now: in the 60's and 70's the hippies gathered there big time and stayed. Many are now college professors (remember Ward Churchill?). A lot of college towns are super liberal because of that (look at Austin). The other change was that many years ago, Boulder enacted a moratorium on building within the city limits. They wanted to "stop growth". This had the effect of exploding growth EVERYWHERE except within the city limits of Boulder. So, now Niwot, Louisville, Broomfield, Superior, etc are huge and bustling and Boulder sits there with all the traffic and none of the tax base. The moratorium also created a real estate market within Boulder that made it impossible for anyone except for the very wealthy to afford housing. I still have friends up there and don't know how they can stand it. They just tried to help their Catholic church raise money for a new building and had to abandon the campaign because the members would not give.