Living In Boulder Colorado Pros and Cons
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2023
- Welcome back everybody! In this video, I'm uncovering why Boulder, Colorado, is one of America's healthiest and best cities to raise a family. Find out the pros and cons of living in this beautiful city with me, Bill Knapp, your licensed residential realtor here in Denver, Colorado. From breathtaking landscapes to a thriving economy-I'm unpacking all the details you need to know about living in Boulder. Don't miss it!
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Great podcast! As a snow-embracing Boston area native whom visits my daughter’s young and active family in the Boulder area, I’d add …
1. The air’s so dry in Boulder, every day is a good hair day
2. Property taxes in Boulder and Colorado at large are ridiculously low. While at first glance it’s great for housing costs, it means fewer municipal and county services, as well as caliber of public education. And it shows.
3. Boulder’s homeless population is growing, everpresent, and alarming - it’s become commonplace to have homeless riddle your mailbox, sit on your porch, try your locks, and rummage through and sleep in your car if it’s unlocked, leaving a cloud of sickeningly stale sweet pot smoke behind.
4. The K-12 public schools aren’t high priority, and it shows. I think those whom can afford it and care go private.
5. The city doesn’t plow its side streets during snowstorms. FWDs be damned.
6. The altitude takes getting used to - especially for those with COPD. Take it slow, drink lots of water, and rest as nec..
7. Not only the restaurants, but the supermarkets have extraordinary organic produce and meats - Sprouts, Alfalfa’s, King Soopers, and more. I cook major dishes (whole chickens, chile rellenos, that sort of thing) whenever I visit, and delight in Boulder’s local fare every time!
8. Nothing is cheap in Boulder except the public’s access to nature.
9. Drivers are incredibly polite and civil compared to Boston. The little side street rotaries are charming and remind drivers to stop, ‘mind the gap,’ and smell the roses.
10. The diversity of architecture is unparalleled, and ranges from bright colored humble bungalows with book drops and flower gardens out front to stately historic mansions behind grand iron and red rock entrances.
11. Nobody seems to wash their car. Maybe the air’s so dry, rust is slower?
12. The resident population and local businesses are keenly earth-aware - sustainability is assumed, as is recycling.
13. Pearl Street shopping and dining are easily a great full-day adventure, from the wonderful and independent Boulder Bookstore to the distinctly-Boulder Liberty Puzzles flagship store, to Island Farm to countless arts and crafts stores and my favorite - the amazing Peppercorn. Eateries dot the way. Pearl Street’s core pedestrian walkway is filled with benches, other respite areas, sculptures, and flowerbeds.
14. No deep-dive Boulder visit would be complete without dropping into Boulder Furniture Arts (on Pearl for decades but now on 26th street) for the finest custom-crafted heirloom pieces west of the Mississippi.
15. Boulder housing, whether buying or renting, is very expensive, even for high income techies. For buyers, my best advice is to buy as close to downtown as soon as possible just short of going over your financial head. Never take what your lender claims you can ‘handle!’ Lenders don’t give a damn about your financial reality, and are in business to make money off you at any cost. Distill the madness, trust your gut: plan a big down (20+%), no HOA (HOA fees are uncappable, will eclipse your mortgage payment, and cede real ownership), and get a fixed rate 15-30 yr mortgage. Have your ducks in a row and be ready to pounce for the right listing.
Great video
Very clarifying video.....thanks a lot
Good stuff, keep it up. Peace
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I lived in Boulder for 17 years. Expensive town… rent, food etc., very hot in summer 90+ degrees. Nice people overall… most are well educated. 30% of the population are students and the population is not very diverse. Naropa University and Shambhala Institute give Boulder a nice vibe.
It can definitely be expensive, but I agree, most everyone there is nice and the vibe is hard to beat. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Good! Diversity BS destroys nice areas, keep that shit in the hoods
Thanks for this! I was thinking about Boulder as a great place to own a starter home but too bad how expensive it is! The video was super informative so thanks again!
Thanks so much for watching & commenting. Boulder does have some starter homes on the northern side, and then you can also go a bit further north or east to find some options while still being near the Boulder lifestyle. Let me know if I can help with any questions on areas
@@LivinginDenverBillKnapp That sounds promising! Thank you and I will! :)
We lived in Boulder from 1977 to 1980 .It was wonderful.But at first we felt it had something against blue collar workers. But we finally got factory and machine shop work . My wife worked at Barcarde and sons steak house.( Is it still there?) The world needs regular people you know. It all can't be high tech. Please have a video on where regular people might work. How can I get this video to play for people again. Don't want to go on to your next one without being able to show this one. The only reason we left was because wife got to missing her family back hear in Missouri. Thank you . please reply if you can.
to rainbow, many bumps, trials are unsafe many tents.
Great video and just looking to maybe retire or second career but you didn’t mention that it’s really cold. I like the cold weather snaps but does boulder have nice seasons all year round? I’m from Palm Beach County, Florida
You would probably freeze to death.
How much could a graduate student spend on housing per month? And what is the average stipend that can be okay to live in boulder?
This is highly variable based on your preferred location for living and any stipend earned via work, graduate studies, etc. I unfortunately do not work in rentals or stipends, so I would recommend checking with your contacts at CU, guidance counselor, or colleagues to see what they are doing. Thanks for watching!
date spot idea: roof of jamba juice on 28th 😎
Thanks so much for the idea and watching! Cheers!
If you aren't the kind of person who wants to spend hundreds on a meal then the best food in boulder is probably the occasional taco truck. There are a few local places like Rincon Argentina or Tiffins that are worth a visit but in general eating out in Boulder is such a bad value proposition that I now exclusively cook my own meals. I live across the street from Santo and cannot believe this place has a Michelin star.
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Same.
I lived there for the better part of the decade and the mexican food there is not authentic. Best hispanic food there is Efrains II.
I despise the place, and I was born there and lived there 45 years. Born at old Community Hospital. Closed now. Right in the shadow of Sanitas. Which is terrible to hike anymore due to the foot traffic. Everywhere is traffic, pretense, and terrible people. Boulder was great. Once. When it was working class. California and the plague of locusts ruined it. Don't let the view fool you. It is crowded. If you want real outdoors, you have to travel for hours in Colorado.
Boulder is accepting? I am a native and coined the term 'liberal fascism.' They will enable anyone and their 'culture' except for people who actually live there, work there, and pay taxes. Diversity? 98.5% of one demographic. You had better make at least $25-30 bucks an hour to afford an apartment. There are entire neighborhoods owned by people of a certain faith. It is not a place for you if you work for a living, were ever told 'no' as a child, don't smoke pot, dont have a trust fund, actually want access to the outdoors that doesn't resemble a Los Angeles health club, mind your downtown being overrun with homeless, rats and the smell of urine or if you make less than 200k a year. Oh, and I promise anyone moving into that city that all the local moving companies charge higher rates for Boulder jobs. Just for having to deal with that city and the people in it. They won't tell you that. Yet they do.
I moved to Idaho. They still put criminal vagrants in jail here. The outdoors is 5 minutes away. With a fraction of the traffic and none of the pseudo intellectualism.
Great video
Much appreciated and thank you so much for watching/commenting. Cheers!