[Orson]

If I were you. I'd pick LA - bit possibly SF or Montreal.

Cali is an unreformable state, headed down because of bad government. Inequality is the worst there (THANK YOU, Obama! Dems...), with the worst poverty in the US and the worst schools in the US. Fortunately, in your job, you'll be insulated from Cali's dysfunctionalism; you're there to work and live, not marry her. So be happy!

Just make sure your stay there is temporary - you don't want to flee like small business and the wealthy are under its oppressive tax burden.

INSIDER view on Boulder next, from a long-term resident.

[Orson]

Colorado IS sunny! And the sun exposure (if you're not used to is) is addictive. 320 days worth. More than Miami and san Diego. BUT - because of the Mile High altitude and the thin dry air, when the sun disappears, it is cool. Coloradans pre for three changes of clothes a day often. (depending on the activity, you ay not need it. But dressing in layers becomes a welcome almost daily habit here.)

Boulder is beautiful, fun, and its outdoorsy lifestyle is additive. The legendary "curse" of Arapahoe Chief Niwot is this: "May others come after you (to Boulder) and not be able to leave." And they have. You can easily feel happy here.

But it is socially difficult and isolating. My first neighbor - born and raised here - warned me of this. Boulder is very cliquey. What does this mean? Engineers socialize with other engineers. Mountain climber hang. They do things with other climbers; they don't mix. Same with chronic weed users.

After a year, I came to agree with my neighbor (who moved away to Tokyo). People are polite on the surface, but don't reach out - they are not curios or accepting. Racial minorities are rare. (Of two black men in Boulder, ALL two them were either friends or a buddy.) Thus, it is easy to feel isolated there. In all the time I lived there, I had better parties in Denver. Which is ironic: Denver is the Big Bad city - it ought to be more closed and threatening, right? And Boulder, the small town, more open. WRONG. Your intuition will be stressed here.

I still visit and enjoy it - but old and new friends there tell me its still the same.

How do you cope? It's more like Europe - friends network and introduce new friends.
Tough to work bars or clubs, though.

(Hence, I rarely had a GF from Boulder; almost always they came from denver or out of state.)

Now, if you are 25ish or so, and your target females are 25 to 21 or so - you may very much enjoy an ideal life here!

The problem with Boulder is that after young females graduate, they leave: there's nothing to keep them here. But for men, it's just the opposite. Men love the sports and outdoor athletics that begins your doorstep, and after age 25, after graduation, they want to stay. Therefore, they contrive to stay - the sex ratio does not favor 30sh men here (mid to late 20s). For 21ish men, it's the reverse.

So, part of the answer to this social weirdness is the sex ratio. Because it is a university town with over 25,000 students, and a town of about 80,000 people, this affects the social mix.

Types of women: if you can tolerate or enjoy flakey-bakey hippy chicks, then you will find a lot of women to enjoy. Maybe one-third of women are vegetarian. They into enviro-whatever-activism, lifestlyes or massage therapy or alterna-psycho dance therapies.... For this, Boulder is a zoo.

Fad sciences flourish there. During the 1990s, it was - I kid you not - "cereology" the study of crop circles. My sister came to Boulder for certification in "herbology."

If engineering and science geeks are your thing, like everywhere, your pool is limited - but certainly present in Boulder. There are many companies, entreprenurial energy and wealth comes to Boulder. (Eg, the founders/owner's of Kinko's Copy Shops [then FedEx/Kinkos, now simply FedEx] and Boston Market restaurants moved to Boulder, then sold their interests.) People commute to Boulder to work (it's cheaper to live elsewhere; 25% of students do.) But people come to Boulder for their studies and if their jobs take them elsewhere - like they often do - they then leave Boulder.

Also, if you are immune to political moralism, then Boulder will suit you. The smug, collectivist moral superiority - that will be imposed upon you - irritates others. Thus, there is mocking towards
Boulder: 5 square miles surrounded by reality.

For example, disposable plastic shopping bags are now taxed - despite the known health hazards and water stress of reusable ones. Or take public smoking. In the 1990s, a separate but equal policy was in effect. Then is was banned in public establishments (and now everywhere) - therefore the drunk driving toll to the next county rose to shocking levels, because smokers wanted a smoke AND drink (which they couldn't do in Boulder), and therefore they drove.

In the late 1990s to 2004, spring student riots became annual or more events. The solution? Not lower the drinking age - NO. The baby boomers that rule the town aren't that principled. They're hypocrites. The "solution" was to ban outdoor couches (the recycled ones favored by poor students). Why? Because when the young stood up to police instrusions, crowds would gather, and then a couch-on-fire barricades went up! Students danced around them.

Long story short - I have a love-hate relationship with Boulder. Fun to visit and play there - but living there has real limitations. These limitations are not obvious to the visitor.

[Orson]

The University of Colorado in Boulder and the to true to life "PCU" (1994) comedy about a university in New England (Connecticut, if my memory serves, but really filmed at the University of Toronto), STILL lives. Political Correctness, and a corresponding cult of victimology, is all the Left is about anymore. In Boulder, it still lives:

London Telegraph HEADLINE: 'Offensive' Halloween costumes banned by US university University of Colorado Boulder tells students to avoid costumes including cowboys, indians, white trash or anything potentially deemed offensive

Quote:

University students in America have been told not to wear "offensive" halloween costumes including cowboys, indians and anything involving a sombrero.

Students at the University of Colorado Boulder have also been told to avoid "white trash" costumes and anything that portrays a particular culture as "over-sexualised" - which the university says includes dressing up as a geisha or a "squaw" (indigenous woman).

They are also asked not to host parties with offensive themes including those with “ghetto” or "hillbilly" themes or those associated with "crime or sex work."

SOURCE

The Thought Police are everywhere on university campuses. Federally subsidized New Class of admiinistrators have nothing better to do to justify their existence.

Thus, Boulder is the very kind of place that Roosh lives to demonize, because of the Femi-nazi double standards that spoil and infantalize the women - and demonize men as men because they merely have a penis (a potential assualt weapon, natch).

Do 30-somethings have it better in Boulder? Maybe. The 2006 romantic dramedy "Catch and Release" captures the fun, idiocy, and lifestyle of extended adolescence in an outdoors obsessed town, filled with "10 year plan" students and trust-fund babies and the envious middle class. Does being a "causehead" devoted to alternaive energy delusions and recycling substitute?

This Jeniffer Garner, Tim Olyphant and Kevin Smith film was filmed in Boulder (save for the fishing scenes, all shot in BC, Canada).