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Feb. 4th, 2006 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sleepymaggieAlthough I often post about how much I'd rather be home, there are actually some really nice things about living in Boulder (as opposed to just visiting):
* Pearl Street Mall, although a definite tourist mecca, is a pretty cool thing. There are some pretty nice specialty stores there, including a kitcheny/homey store with lots of equipment and tools and neat gadgets. There's also a Lush -- I still think its pretty crazy that there's a Lush within walking distance of my house.
* Apparently you can get almost any kind of food product delivered to your house. Some of my friends in the department have all their dairy delivered, and are looking to get fresh organic veggies delivered as well.
* Because Boulder is so health conscious and hippie, there's a vast selection of organic, free-trade, and all natural products. We have five organic/all natural groceries in town (that I know of), three of which are in walking distance to my house. We also have specialty shops for crafting (like a collective owned yarn shop with an amazing selection) and chocolatiers, and wine shops, and cheese importers. If you've got money, you can live very well here.
* The scenery is always pretty striking. I complain about the colors and too much sunlight and all that, I know. Most of the time I go from school to home to work to home, and I never even really glance to the west at those big rocks. But every now and then, I'll drive or walk to some part of town that's a bit more open, and bam, they're right there, huge and looming.
* I also appreciate the way the city has made an effort to be friendly to walkers and bikes. There's paths and bike lanes everywhere. And there's the Boulder Creek path, which follows the creek from the mountains all the way through town. Along the path are all kinds of neat stopping points and bridges. I doubt New Brunswick could ever have anything like that -- it just takes a lot of effort to maintain, and that doesn't seem high on the agenda there.
Boulder is a really great place to live -- its just way too far away from everyone I know.
* Pearl Street Mall, although a definite tourist mecca, is a pretty cool thing. There are some pretty nice specialty stores there, including a kitcheny/homey store with lots of equipment and tools and neat gadgets. There's also a Lush -- I still think its pretty crazy that there's a Lush within walking distance of my house.
* Apparently you can get almost any kind of food product delivered to your house. Some of my friends in the department have all their dairy delivered, and are looking to get fresh organic veggies delivered as well.
* Because Boulder is so health conscious and hippie, there's a vast selection of organic, free-trade, and all natural products. We have five organic/all natural groceries in town (that I know of), three of which are in walking distance to my house. We also have specialty shops for crafting (like a collective owned yarn shop with an amazing selection) and chocolatiers, and wine shops, and cheese importers. If you've got money, you can live very well here.
* The scenery is always pretty striking. I complain about the colors and too much sunlight and all that, I know. Most of the time I go from school to home to work to home, and I never even really glance to the west at those big rocks. But every now and then, I'll drive or walk to some part of town that's a bit more open, and bam, they're right there, huge and looming.
* I also appreciate the way the city has made an effort to be friendly to walkers and bikes. There's paths and bike lanes everywhere. And there's the Boulder Creek path, which follows the creek from the mountains all the way through town. Along the path are all kinds of neat stopping points and bridges. I doubt New Brunswick could ever have anything like that -- it just takes a lot of effort to maintain, and that doesn't seem high on the agenda there.
Boulder is a really great place to live -- its just way too far away from everyone I know.
