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Boulder is the worst best small town in America. You know what I mean.
It's not a small town, but rather a suburb of Denver.
It's 25 miles away from Denver.
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Yes but it's Boulder, the promised land, according to here
Boulder is the worst best small town in America. You know what I mean.
I don't know, but based on this entire thread, I think this was one of the places that was popular for people to move from cities during the pandemic, when everyone was working remotely.
Its fascinating to me that for decades people have been moving to the same cities from places like Boulder (and many such all over the country) for opportunities/careers/lives and now a few chose to move from the cities to these small towns. While I understand that people do not like change but how is this any different, its still people making a choice of moving to a different place in the country which they think is better for their lives? Isn't this NIMBY, its fine as long as everyone moves to NY, but not here.
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Been 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.
>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.
The CAGR is 0.1%, 0.6%, or 0.4%, over 10, 20, or 30 years respectively.
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Yes but it's Boulder, the promised land, according to here
Boulder is the worst best small town in America. You know what I mean.
I lived there for 6 years and halfheartedly agree. It's a very nice town in terms of general quality of life - definitely the best I've ever experienced, and I've lived all over America. But there's a pretentiousness in the air that can be utterly nauseating at times. The "Boulder bubble" is real.
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>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.
The CAGR is 0.1%, 0.6%, or 0.4%, over 10, 20, or 30 years respectively.
CAGR 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.
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The CAGR is 0.1%, 0.6%, or 0.4%, over 10, 20, or 30 years respectively.
CAGR 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.
Yes, 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.