It's hard for me to hate Boulder when it was like a work vacation for me, even though my schedule was nuts sometimes. It was one reason that I never got to chill with anyone from hubski up there, I wasn't very available.

The racism isn't as generalizable to Colorado, Denver seemed much more chill. The price of living in Boulder is so high that a most of the peeps who work at the Boulder branch of my ex-employer have houses in Louisville, a 25 minute drive away from their office building in the "West End" of Boulder. And that's weird for a town of less than 100,000 (the Google office there is weird too, but I guess they might interface with the University?). Boulder's not a town at all, it's the tip of a stupidly rich, long tentacle of Denver. Maybe they're even finished with all the construction work to broaden the highway connecting the two. Nah, just kidding, I doubt it.

So yes, major college town, yes, Greek scene. 32,000 students, many from rural areas of a state that is very racially homogeneous. 87%+ white! That's crazy to me. Like I said, I'm white, and the only town I've recently lived in where I was in the majority was College Station, TX, oddly similar to Boulder, and I grew to hate it there. For reasons similar to ate-bit's (winkwinkwink) experience. What I've decided from all this is that racism is largely a lack of face-to-face exposure and "integration" with other races. I think most sociologists would agree.

Lowest obesity rates in the nation, legal pot, incredible vistas, fascinating weather, two nobel prize physicists in the university faculty, bike/walking paths traversing the entire town, and only a 45-minute from a major city. Large population of young racists. It's weird.

Also (I'm already going to hell, it's cool), while in Boulder, I came up with a game called "homeless or trendy?", and my coworker and I would get flat out stumped just about every time we walked around downtown. But to be fair, I often disguise myself as a bro, and it usually goes swimmingly, I even fool real bros. They'll talk to me about sports, and I'm a master of just bullshitting my way to acceptance.