Boulder is also a good-sized county. The weather here is mild compared to the nearby mountains. We get a lot of sun, and a fair amount of snow. Sun worship is the local pastime. Boulder has several nom de plumes.
Students here are very civics-minded.
They riot and burn furniture in the streets because they can't drink beer at football games. There is a lot of high-tech here, the plains are bristling with new office complexes, and the ridgetops with new houses, as far as the eye can see. And that's pretty far in Colorado. The old People's Republic has turned into the new Yuppie Heaven of the 90s - high salaries, huge new shopping malls, big houses wallowing everywhere on lots too tiny to plant a tree, and parking meters popping up like dandelions on a wet spring day. Five years ago, there were only 2 or 3 places in town to buy a capuccino, now there are at least 102.