Boulder CO a good place to live?

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I am a 24 year old soon to be college grad and I was thinking of getting my masters in nursing in the Boulder area. Is this a good fun place to go? How is the traffic? Is there a good nursing school (Nurse practicioner) around there? Any information would be greatly appreciated :)

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Living in boulder is good if you are a student in student housing, a granola, or economically advantaged. Housing is expensive, the general population is fairly liberal, and Boulder was just named the smartest city in the country. The nursing school is in Denver, and they are almost finished with a new state-of-the-art nursing school on the Denver/Aurora border, where housing is way cheaper. Traffic is ok, I grew up around that area. Lots for a 24 yr old to do. Good luck!

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The chief drawback to Boulder is that housing is expensive, say 150% of the Denver area average.

So many people who work in Boulder commute from cheaper suburbs of Denver like Louisville or Lafayette. In turn that generates high rush hour traffic, comparable to Denver's'.

Boulder is considered desirable in many ways. But high housing costs and traffic are the result. There's a major nursing school about 5 miles east of downtown Denver. Housing would be cheaper and traffic less.

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Most people who work in Boulder can't afford to live there. CU has a school of medicine but it's not in Boulder, it's in Denver. Treaffic in Boulder is bad as it is everywhere in the Denver area.
Boulder has a housing moratorium, which has made it VERY EXPENSIVE to live. I personally like Fort Collins, which is about 60 miles or so from Boulder. It's less expensive and was voted one of the best places to live. The nursing school is in Greeley, which is pretty good.
I'm a Boulder Native and I like it, but it's kind of a polarizing place. Despite what everyone is saying, Boulder-proper is actually no more expensive than most of Denver-proper. In both central Denver and central Boulder. the median home price is about $500k. There are a lot of people who live in the surrounding bedroom communities for Longmont, Louisville, Lafayette, and Superior. Commuting from Louisville and Lafayette isn't bad at all.

If you only rent an apartment, it's a little more of a hassle to find a place, but you can do it. There are fewer suburban complexes and more random apartments around the city owned by property companies. I used Housing Helpers, a real estate firm to find my current place. The cut-off for a relatively modern apartment seems to be around $700. You can get less than that, but they're usually not great apartments.

Transportation. It's extremely bicycle friendly, and because its population density is actually higher than Denver-proper, Boulder is also mostly walkable and the bus system is great for the size of town. If you don't have a car, it's a great place to live. If you do have a car, traffic is heavier than most towns of its size.

Culturally, Boulder's a typical college town. Similar to Ethica New York, Athens Georgia, or even a "Berkeley lite". Health food stores, lots of hiking, lots of rocks to climb, etc. If you like the outdoors, it's the best place in Denver.

Crime is low, cost of living is higher than the suburbs, and the majority of the non-student population has bachelors degrees. Probably more PhD's per capita than most places in the US.
It was untill about 1965, thats when IBM made its move and then everything else moved in and distroyed a very nice area.