i don't think i've ever posted on this board (i'm more of an ILM guy), but i live in Longmont, which is about 20 minutes east of Boulder, and I can't say enough good things about it. I lived in Boulder for close to two years before moving out here and agree with a lot of the problems mentioned on this thread. Longmont -- or at least the neighborhood I'm in -- is quite lovely. Old, affordable homes! An awesome cheese shop! Lots of cool neighbors! Fewer (or, not any) CU students! Those mountains! COME TO LONGMONT.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
that said, boulder does have plenty to recommend it -- namely some very good beer.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
longmont's beer is lacking for the most part.
Longmont also has that Macdonalds with the choo-choo
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
And the TWIN PEAKS MALL
yes, the mont is all twin peaksed out. twin peaks church! scary. longmont also has some of the best mexican food i've found in colorado.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ no freaking way
― nabisco, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
is a mound of guac standard taco topping in CO or is that just an Albertaco thing? can someone briefly say why The Springs is so bad and hated? Got family there but haven't been there for 20 years other than brief pass-thrus/stopping at Garden of the Gods/horrible sushi experience.
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
no freaking way to the mexican food or the twin peaks church / mall?
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
No freaking way to the Mexican! Or, I mean ... are you just comparing to northern Colorado, or have you eaten down south and you're still going with Longmont? I have a hard time believing Mexican in Longmont has surpassed what you get down around/past Pueblo.
Colorado Springs is largely bad and hated for being intensely conservative/evangelical, and having served for a long time as a center for lots of varieties of huge right-wing religious groups who want to focus on your family. It has self-consciously whitebread ideas sometimes, possibly due to fear of Mexicans; possibly due to its geography being somewhat deformed and disconnected in ways that completely blast any notion of human beings living in a community with one another, partly due to weird land speculation that went BOOM during the 80s savings-and-loan scandal; also possibly due to the Air Force Academy and NORAD being nearby. Also lots of people are weird. Also the Mexican food is not as good as it is further south, though if you live further south the Springs is a good place to go for bigger malls, with Chick-Fil-As. In sum, Colorado Springs is weird and conservative and creates a weird liberal enclave/prison around Colorado College, but on the plus side, the stretches of I-25 leading out of it are very pretty and worth driving on.
― nabisco, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, i guess i would amend that to best mexican food on the front range (boulder, denver, ft. collins etc.). Actually have spent next to no time at all down south, though I'm planning on it this summer.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The drive to CO springs is pretty, and Manitou Springs is cool for the penny arcade thinger, but last summer my sister and I decided to drive down to CO springs to look around and go hiking and things and we decided that town is really, really hideous.
It does have a ZOO on a MOUNTAIN though which is cool.
I'm totally a northern colorado girl though.
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
This comes from growing up in Greeley I 'spose.
i went to a party near lefthand canyon (betw. boulder & lyons) a couple weeks back and it was a serious Boulder yuppie kind of scene. Very well-off pseud-bohemians. I won't front, though, I'd live up there in a second if I had the $$$. Outrageously gorgeous.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for the springs lowdown, nabisco. it seemed like a weird place to me, but not necessarily in an unpleasant way. but like i said, have spent hardly any time there in the past 20years. where is the good mex food south of Pueblo? Along I-25, or further west, in the mountains? I couldn't find any good food til I hit New Mexico.
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, I grew up in Pueblo, so I'm biased toward the Mexican around there. There's not much to point to outside of that in terms of specific towns, but anytime I had decent Mexican in small towns anywhere in the area -- Canon City, La Junta, Trinidad, wherever -- it tended to be a lot better than up north. (Never mind crossing the border into New Mexican goodness.)
― nabisco, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
(Now that I think about it, I'm not actually sure I-25 passes through much of anything between Pueblo and New Mexico -- Trinidad? Walsenberg? Rye? So yeah, once you're past Pueblo, you tend to start checking the mileage for Raton and not stopping.)
― nabisco, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah it's pretty much a no man's land past Pueblo on I-25, but I had fantasies of there being a Shangri La of Mexican food hidden in those mountains. If I'm not mistaken, Longmont has a huge ConAgra processing facility (chickens, for sure, don't know what else. i used to work at their HQ in HR), and employs a good deal of Mexicans, which would explain the food oasis there.
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Mandee - a ride from Boulder would be reaaaally awesome if you it's convenient for you. The only thing is that I'm going to be at work until about 5pm or so. Is that too late to swing through Boulder? If so, that's cool, I'll just take the bus to Denver, it's not a big deal.
― Z S, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 nabisco's second paragraph up there in his colorado springs post
― dell, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Zach I probably won't leave Greeley until 6pm or so... so yeah, the work issue isn't a problem.
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
awwwwwwesome.
I'll send you an email with my address. It's not hard to get to - it's a few blocks west of Broadway, on the Hill.
― Z S, Thursday, 19 June 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
hey zach, change of plans - my friend's band is playing downtown tomorrow (20th & Larimer somewhere) and then there's a party thinger afterward. wanna come down for that?
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
YES, that sounds great. Although, I may have to be lame and leave the party early, because I think the last bus back to boulder leaves around midnight or so (I could be hilariously wrong on that).
― Z S, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
no, last one leaves at 2:20 am duder!!!
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
we could send you off at union station which is like 2 blocks from the party
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/Picture2.jpg
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa, gnarly!
Cool, what's the name of the bar/venue then? I can just meet you there.
― Z S, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll email you, im still gathering details
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Mandee, I just got back from Denver about 20 minutes ago. What a fucking awesome weekend trip! I laughed so hard and so often over the past few days that I actually have a sore throat (best sore throat ever). We gotta do it again sometime soon.
PS Please don't tell anyone how much I cheated at air hockey oh wait what am I doing
― Z S, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
most entertaining air hockey game ever!!
yeah man it was great to meet you and me and all my friends had a blast!!! and you are welcome to our couch in denver anytime.
― homosexual II, Monday, 23 June 2008 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Just got into an 40 minute long argument about THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY where he said that I was a hypocrite because I only am a vegetarian (a decision I made on grounds of energy use) and don't go "100%".
LATE UPDATE
he walked in and totally apologized. Maybe's he's not so bad.
SRY SO DRUNK BOULDER
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a hard time making up my mind about Boulder. When we lived there, my friends and I used to compare it to Dairy, from Stephen King's, It. You keep looking around hoping that someone else will acknowledge that there is something terribly wrong about the place, but, like you said, it's all glazed over eyes.
That being said, there were days when shit was way bad, and all I had to do was take a look at the flat irons and it would wash away.
I was planning to move to China this fall, but salary expectations and visa problems are making that less of a viable option. I think my girlfriend and I are moving to Boulder in August.
Where are you from originally, ZS?
― Benjamin-, Sunday, 6 July 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
im ogin to colorado for a month on tuesday and completely bypassing boulder HAHA FU BOULDER
― jhøshea, Sunday, 6 July 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
what are you doing here jhoshea
― homosexual II, Sunday, 6 July 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Benjamin -
I'm originally from near St. Louis, Missouri. A small town called Farmington. But now I'm living in Ithaca, NY, but only until I graduate next May. Then somewhere else. I HAVE NO HOME.
Mandee
I'm coming to Denver on Thursday night/Friday/Saturday afternoon. If you would like hang 10 gimme a call!
― Z S, Monday, 7 July 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Alright, they don't like the "1-2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9-10, ELEVEN TWELVE!" song, or the animation. FUCK THIS.
Mandee - wanna see Matmos tomorrow in Boulder? Pleeeeeeeease?
― Z S, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm down for Denver drinks on July 26th
― Jordan, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I loved Boulder when I visited. especially Boulder Brewing company
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
what the fuck are these people
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Z S email me at dr dot drew dot daniel at gee mail dot com so that I can list you in Boulder brah
― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Drew, I just emailed you, but since it's already 6:30pm I'm assuming it's too late for guest list action. No big deal though, I'll be there either way.
― Z S, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
WAIT IS IT TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY ZACH!!?!?
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry i just now saw this! AND I JUST GOT HOME FROM WORK AND I STINK!
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Jordan is speechless!
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
mandee, did you get my ilx mail?
― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
OH! Jordan!!! The email I am registered under is no longer valid - email me at mandee wr!ght at gmail dot com
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
oh cool, i re-mailed you
― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
They're still cool dudes though. My roommate says "Yeah, right?" anytime he agrees with someone else, which is endearing.
-- Z S, Monday, May 26, 2008 4:22 PM
RONG
― Z S, Sunday, 27 July 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
omg boulder is my least favorite place in the world
-- jhøshea, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:13 AM
RITE
― Z S, Sunday, 27 July 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link