Why I Love Boulder

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> Winters are bright with over 300 days of sun.

That's a long, sunny winter:-)

I'm still curious about Boulder. I was all set to go when we were still in Innsbruck (Austria is nice, but not where I want to live), but being back in Italy, now I'm not so sure. It looks like Boulder is pretty chilly with lots of summer rainstorms. Also, I wonder about the "smug" factor. I detect a strong undercurrent of "we're awesome and we live in the awesomest place" in some talk about that area.

I went to college in Boulder. The first thing I noticed there was that every building seemed to have a telescope on top of it. Lots of tech. Lots of outside. Great place. And they do have the best breakfast. I miss the Village Coffee shop and Lucile's.

Jeremy Tanner is a somewhat nonsensical dude.

That's why we like him.

Went to my first New Tech Boulder Meetup this week and I was really impressed with the crowd and the vibe. Got to see Dan Bricklin speak in person, one of my idols in the hacker/entrepreneur pantheon for Visicalc.

Boulder is a great place, in certain ways, we just don't want lots more folks to move in and spoil it. Further. We're looking at you, California. :)

Is there a lot of "noise"?

There's too much of that in the Bay area. Most people say they are working on something but doesn't have anything to show.

There

there's less signal, probably less noise (in total), but not sure about relative signal-to-noise ratios. Boulder area is not as software and high/electrical tech focused as SF/Bay/SV area is. More science, eco, and govt stuff in Boulder, in proportion, I think. And definitely a startup scene.

Don't worry, all the Californians are up here spoiling Oregon.

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