I spent six months in Boulder in 1986 and fell in love with the town. Alas, everything changes, and it seems the more people find out about a great place, the worse it ends up with time.

You nailed this coffee shop chat a 100% girl! 😉 I like the sense of humor & honesty in your videos! 💙 Don't feel bad @ the previous video ~ you are just putting out a content/your experience but you are not responsible for `people's choice making`! Like in this video you are so grateful to live in a beauty of nature in Boulder... and I think we are all the same in this way ~ sometimes we love and sometimes we hate what we have or live & sometimes we realize that our circumstances are not so bad after all! 😏 Have a wonderful Sunday! 🥰

We (fam of 4) are flying to CO this week to visit for 4 days and visit a graduate program at Naropa. I’ve been anxious about all the cons that you coincidentally spoke to in your last video. You didn’t discourage as much as you addressed the stereotypes I already feared. But *this* one has touched me and given me hope. It’s perfectly normal for any place to have a shadow side, but I love that you and the general vibe you were feeling are of processing more openly. That’s the exact direction I want to go and this was great. Thank you ❤

Thank you for voicing this

Absolutely love your videos and your humor and truth great job.

Boulder is a gateway to the sublime...mountains, of course...and shafts of rainbow light after a rare rain, the thick perfume of sage baking in the sun, the roar of wind crescendoing through the canyons, other-worldly sunsets that force one to surrender to a moment of unmitigated awe...absolutely MAGICAL...and it would be crushing for me to leave THAT. But the town has lost its soul. The earthy quirk and character have been supplanted by what developers and monied folks always seem to prefer...absurdly overpriced boutique crap, schmancy cycling & climbing gear, crazy-expensive jewelry stores, boring loft residences, etc. I so miss the goosebump-inducing-Sunday-night-Irish-music-jams around a big, stale-beer-smelling table at Conor O'Neils (driven out by escalating rent). It's a long list of losses and I could go on but I won' because, in reality, it's stolen land and we're all occupiers, I could more appropriately whine about that. But, things and people being what they are, I'll just add that housing is impossible; there's still zero diversity; and what you're smelling isn't the neighbor's barbecue, it's a wildland fire licking at your backyard (the reality of inhabiting a Wildland Urban Interface in the epoch of climate catastrophe). It's a different place on many levels and though I lament the unfortunate slide of the town into 'ew,' I will be eternally grateful for the unexpected privilege of having walked part of my path in this extraordinary natural environment on this extraordinary blue planet suspended in an inscrutable universe...while the planet was still blue and this town still had some palpable 'duende.'

Just found your channel and watched through a few. CO native currently in Ned and I've always LOVED it here and Boulder especially (even with its pretentiousness) but the skyrocketing real estate and rent cost for those of us unlucky enough not to have owned a home is a huge struggle

I love the nature in Bolder! But I’m moving from Seattle, which is very similar to Boulder. I just vibe better with the Denver vibe! I made a lot of Facebook friends in Denver and it feels great! I’m kinda worn out of Seattle freeze culture so I just want to experience a different culture. I’d even consider Colorado Springs, even though it’s more conservative. I stayed there for a month and I like how friendly people are there.

Fascinating insights Genevieve!

Awe, you're great. I watched the other video and I love the follow up.

I totally get what you’re saying. I grew up in Nashville. I’m leaving because the cons outweigh the pros. It’s easily to feel bogged down by them when you’ve lived in the same place for awhile.

Every time you show the mountains I feel like pn vacation .Thank you.

Hello- I contacted a realtor in the area, thank you for your videos! 🙂

Love your videos yes the world is changing 💘 Colorado

Boulder is beautiful! Yes, the housing market really bothers me. If I could purchase a house here, I would never move. Thank you, Genevieve. I love your videos.

Glad to know there’s a town out there that needs me! Lol. Maybe from what you say, Boulder needs to subsidize a transfusion of hundreds of grounded, family oriented, rule-following, more traditional people from Ohio. Then Boulder could in turn inspire them to loosen up, be adventurous, and be more complex…? I just met a nice dad that recently moved back here from Boulder, driven out by the cost of living. Said the cost & access to perks like skiing for his family was prohibitive, so why be there?

Love your stuff on Colorado. Can you do a video on Denver? And maybe a best nature spots video in Colorado or at least your area? Love you Genevieve Thanks!

Hey.. my wife and I are going to move to Colorado within the next couple months.. we have a baby on the way. Would love to live in a small town but not far from Denver.. What are your thoughts on Louisville? Also loved what I’ve seen in Fort Collins and also watching ur videos. Thank you for the content!

@matthewp2522

2 жыл бұрын

Live in Louisville and it partially burned down, prices are outrageous there now just like the rest of Boulder.

You make some valid points in your video about change in Boulder but it’s not so simple. After living in Colorado for close to 10 years in which I lived in Parker, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Denver and Fort Collins. I feel like this Boulder bubble or freeze is all over Colorado. I am originally from the east coast and I found the natives to be really guarded, self absorbed and just not very friendly to outsiders. I am not saying all of them but a bulk of them have this mentality. While my time living in Colorado the friends I made where from other parts of the country and not by Coloradoans. Yes, did I have aquaintances that where Coloradoans, yes but not true friends. By nature I am very friendly, outgoing and have that sense of community I grew up in the northeast. I did not feel a sense of community in Colorado. I felt the vibe was really cold. I am one to assimilate to my surroundings but this mentality in Colorado has been there for years and it’s not easy for the natives to change or welcome change. This is just my opinion. Colorado is a beautiful state and I enjoyed the outdoors, but at the end of the day it just did not feel like home. I give you kiddos for being optimistic but as I stated earlier the mentality in Colorado is just different from other places I lived in and not in a good way. A lot of ppl move to Colorado from other states and have all these expectations but when they get here they have a rude awakening and for many it’s not what they expected. Unfortunately many leave and go back to their home states or other places of the country.

look forward to your next Randonauting outing, maybe try the intention Historic artifact - this could lead you to an item, a building or landmark or something connected to your personal History, good luck and stay safe

I lived in tents on rooftops and even rented a mansion all to myself in Boulder just to end up going broke again and being pushed out by this. Tried rly hard it didn’t work wasn’t looking to rent my whole life made enough money to own property but I guess since I wasn’t actually “rich” wud have never worked IMO looking back.

Went to CU Boulder in the early to mid Seventies. It was wonderful. College was cheap in those days as the effects of government "helping" everyone with EZ loans which enabled tuition to explode (well duh)hadn't yet kicked in. When I left Williams Village to get apartment my share of a three br on Portland was something like 55 a month (say 250 today). Crime was nonexistent except for occasional bike theft. There was one aging hippie guy who put up a teepee in a vacant lot on Pearl - that was the homeless population and he was more eccentric than crazy. My friend bought an old house on Pine for 60 grand which seemed expensive then. People were fashionably center left but not whiny and jealous and negative like today's progressive young people.

Hello-would love to contact you re:moving to CO. Not sure if there is a way to contact you directly or if you prefer public. Thank you!Jacqueline

I currently work at the 2nd location in Boulder king soopers and I went couple times to the table Mesa area when they were understaffed 😥 but yea they’re opening in October !!

@GenevieveClough

3 жыл бұрын

That all must have hit so close to home! 😢🙏

I met the love of my life on Pearl Street. Never had an issue finding friends here, but I also moved here to do Parkour. I dunno ... am I the only one that likes this place?

@KristosMenfes

3 жыл бұрын

Give it time it’s rollercoaster ulu have lots of money even then the minute ur low on funds ur not even allowed to fall asleep in public there if u have no place to sleep

There are several Boulder Collective groups like Boulder Creative Collective, but none are named just Boulder Collective Which one do you mean?

In 1964 I decided not to buy at home in Boulder because the $10,000 asking price was too high. Coming from New York City I felt like I'd moved to paradise. Being then in my mid twenties and not finding the college crowd interesting I found myself driving to Denver a few times per week for fun and frolic. The mall had not been developed and one could not even find a place for open breakfast on weekends. But you could walk anywhere in old Boulder and parking was never a problem. Only years after moving to Denver did I realize that during my years living in Boulder I'd never seen or worked with a black person although I did not feel that this was by design. Oddly, years later I bought a home in Denver and was the only white person in the neighborhood.

Boulder looks so beautiful. Even i don’t live there. I like it!

I've been visiting Boulder every few years since 1977. I especially like Pearl Street Mall. I was just there in late September and noticed the Peal Street Mall has become dirty and dingy since I was there 3 years previous. It wasn't like I remembered it. Very disappointed.

The hate Boulder video was honest, I really dug it and agreed with so much of it, and as a person who finally did leave Boulder I can tell you from the bubble looking back in you need to get out. Places like Boulder (and as "interesting" and "unique" as Boulder may believe itself to be it isn't, also not that smart, there are many communities just like it not in a good way) are self fulfilling prophecies because they are bubbles disconnected from the greater society. Do yourself a favor and let go, and put yourself into a place that has some actual adversity, some actual diversity and real challenges on the everyday level, and when those are starting you in the face everyday you will look back at Boulder and realize how ridiculous Boulder is. Pick a city with a population over 1 million, join the greater society and you will see the only places that talk obsessively about diversity are the places that don't have any. Where the poorest and the richest and everyone in-between all share the same place, in a city. There are some great ones.

Gen, My Plan; change yourself and you change The World...not the other way round...

We need an update on the two french kids!

@GenevieveClough

3 жыл бұрын

Haha they’re young adults now! Both are doing well, still living in Paris and going to university. And their English is excellent now 😉

What are you doing (personally) from the “ivory tower” you’ve apparently locked yourself in..?

Every city has its good and bad issues. Nowhere is perfect. 😁

Having been both rich and poor, I hear this lady’s message.

My wife and I are wanting to move to colorado. Can you do a video on Springs vs Denver. I want to move to Springs because it is less expensive and crowded. She wants to move to Denver because there is "more to do". But I think Springs have fun things to do too.

@jacquelynnjones1372

3 жыл бұрын

hey Ryan! I lived in durango for 3.5 years which I know is far from the denver and co springs area. I will say when i drive through colorado springs i feel a more conservative vibe almost like a kansas city feel. Denver does seem to have more going on wise if you like breweries etc! that’s just my 2 cents.

@GenevieveClough

3 жыл бұрын

This is a great topic to talk about! I’ll do some research 🙏

@ryanhoward757

3 жыл бұрын

​@@jacquelynnjones1372 Thanks for the tip! Breweries are fun!

@ryanhoward757

3 жыл бұрын

@@GenevieveClough We plan to move to Colorado in two years. I know we will at least make $5000 a month (combined salary) and work remotely (so we don't need “job opportunities”). We are your typically millennial married couple and have no kids (and don’t plan to for a while). We don't do the nightlife scene, but we do like to go out to restaurants for date nights. We LIKE the outdoors but we don’t LOVE the outdoors if you get my drift. A two hour day hike on a pretty day is more our speed. It’s not like we are looking to go camping for the whole weekend or something. We had our hearts set on Lakewood in Denver but then I started looking at the prices compared to Springs and I was like: is Denver REALLY worth the price tag? Sure, Denver has more to do: music concerts, theater/plays, and professional sports (Go Broncos lol!). But, Springs is pretty close to Denver so you could just drive to the Red Rocks Amphitheater or Broncos stadium and catch a game or concert. I guess what I am asking is as far as daily life and living… which is better? Denver or Springs? Excluding Denver’s obvious close proximity to “big time” events, can Springs hold its own compared to the “Mile High” city? Are people more friendly in Springs or Denver? Is Denver prettier than Springs? My wife and I love your videos and like to know your point of view. Thanks! Stay awesome!

@ryanhoward757

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacquelynnjones1372 We plan to move to Colorado in two years. I know we will at least make $5000 a month (combined salary) and work remotely (so we don't need “job opportunities”). We are your typically millennial married couple and have no kids (and don’t plan to for a while). We don't do the nightlife scene, but we do like to go out to restaurants for date nights. We LIKE the outdoors but we don’t LOVE the outdoors if you get my drift. A two hour day hike on a pretty day is more our speed. It’s not like we are looking to go camping for the whole weekend or something. We had our hearts set on Lakewood in Denver but then I started looking at the prices compared to Springs and I was like: is Denver REALLY worth the price tag? Sure, Denver has more to do: music concerts, theater/plays, and professional sports (Go Broncos lol!). But, Springs is pretty close to Denver so you could just drive to the Red Rocks Amphitheater or Broncos stadium and catch a game or concert. I guess what I am asking is as far as daily life and living… which is better? Denver or Springs? Excluding Denver’s obvious close proximity to “big time” events, can Springs hold its own compared to the “Mile High” city? Are people more friendly in Springs or Denver? Is Denver prettier than Springs? My wife and I love your videos and like to know your point of view. Thanks! Stay awesome!

durango was the same with housing. a home in durango that was in kansas would be like 120,000. it was astronomical!

I'm not considering Boulder simply because of how expensive it is. (I forgot that Boulder had a shooting 🥺 very unfortunate.) I'm still considering other areas. I'm a single engineer; I can't afford my own house yet, and it wouldn't make sense to move by myself to a new state by making the financial decision to move somewhere out of my budget. 😔

All very well said. Bouler is a mini San Fancisco 😏. People want to live here because of the mountains and all of the things that are going on here. But only a few can because of the cost of livng. Only the cream of the crop that have money. Which is why Boulder is how it is.

I would love to move to Boulder, but I am afraid my wife will find me, any suggestions?

I think your Awesome...

I know a few people that have left the state just due to the housing costs ....Idk, Denver-boulder area feels like it wants to be San Fran with the homeless flocking there and open drug use... the springs is still safe, for now

Gen, "smoke a herring" :)

Boulder put a vex in my heart I used to think freedom was real, now I just think my mind is the only thing I can free and the physical comfort like entitlement is only afforded to rich people. Truth FYI 10 years or more lived there

"Emotional complex"....ahahahaha. She probably learned that term in DC...Lol.

Gen, housing? Rent Control! housing? i would live in a trailer! Charlie Varrick (1976 Walter Mattau film) was crop duster who fought The Mob...and won! he lived in a trailer...

Would not live in the peoples republic of Boulder plus parking anywhere is horrible.

No don't worry there's trouble every where if Boulder is the place in your Hart nothing will stop you.

Gen, btw "diverse" is a diversion...the BPD not at city line saying "no one welcome in Boulder whose not Whitebread"...its choice, not Redling...btw im from NYC...Harlem is 98 percent Black no one complains

Honestly I've been following you for a long time and I appreciate your videos sincerely.. However living just 15 miles out of Boulder for the last 48 years and spending most of my time and career in Boulder I find your repeated reference to Boulder as a white society almost giving an impression of a silicone valley effect to be incorrect Boulder has always been very culturally driven on the underbelly side of typical idealism... I still love your videos and look forward to following you into the future 😘

lol "Nice-ish"

I think you should spend some time in another country!

@GenevieveClough

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in the UK/France for a year and am fairly well traveled to other places as well. Not really sure what your implying with this declaration.

@davidhumphrey1558

3 жыл бұрын

@@GenevieveClough I am struggling with a similar mentality. I was abroad for almost 5 years. My problem is that I escaped American culture. I went to different places and experienced new ways of living, I believe in new ideas now. It doesn’t mesh well with people who only have work to talk about and eventually become jealous mostly in the end. Abroad the jealousy is much more easy to overcome because you spend more time trying to understand each other. In America you just get lumped into social groups and it is extremely isolating. I am implying that maybe you have this same experience? My plan I still to leave again. I think I will eventually end Up owning a home in London when I am an old rich guy, But staying around unhappy in America because it would be your “patriotic duty” or any other reason of loyalty to the establishment will make you kill yourself. You need to be around the people who make you truly happy. Maybe it’s your family maybe it’s people you met in magic situations. What is happy is different for each person. If you ever want to talk more I am open to that, But I also understand if you just think I am a confused weirdo.

Gen, oh please youre NOT Berkeley! time to Cowgirl Up! you and Liz Cheney? yes? btw ive been to Seattle i was well treated

Gen, Boulder is NOT Berkeley! dont go Freud! live long, and prosper. btw NO one is keeping "minorities" out but lack of rent control is! im from NYC WE got a zillion issues :)

The thing is that people in Boulder aren't in an ivory castle. Boulder isn't really even that sophisticated. South Florida or New York is far more advanced than Boulder. The idea that they are somehow more intellectual there is kind of deluded. When Im in Boulder Im not really that impressed. The mountains are nice but that's about all its got going for it.

@GenevieveClough

3 жыл бұрын

The “ivory tower” analogy is referring to how people in Boulder often think they’re very well informed and know what’s best. That, and we’re a very wealthy and generally educated community. Boulder is certainly not “sophisticated” in ways you might think of east coasters. In fact, we’re pridefully casual and we think that makes us superior as well. 🙃

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Denver is so much more normal and livable. Too many weird hippies in boulder it's so cringey. I visited boulder last week and stumbled upon a drag queen story hour for kids which I found highly offensive.

FYI you spend 10 minutes without giving an outsider like me a clue as to what Boulder was like before. I worked in Greeley/Denver for six months in 2021. I left because Colorado is now flooded with California expats-the freaks I'm trying to get away from. The drugs and street people suck. Local and state governments are at war with traditional Colorado citizens: ranchers, energy producers, hunters, trappers, old school outdoors folks. . .it was really sad to see what has happened to your great state.

This lunatic...is a perfect example of who really lives in Boulder/Denver areas in like the past 15 years or so...yikes.

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