Inspired by other threads: Boulder, Colorado vs Humboldt County

[bigshrimp]

Stump-dumped lol

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

personally I would go Boulder over Humboldt. There is a much wider range of things to do in my opinion. You also have good infrastructure if you move to boulder. It really is like comparing the wild west to a gentrified hippy town. both places are very different.

 

[blueberry99]

Truth.

Just outa curiosity, why Texas?

 

[nattynattygurrl]

Please note: this post describes the common perceptions that some have of Texans, and are not necessarily my feelings…so please don’t blast me for the attempted explanation.


Coloradoans have one big thing in common with Texans: we love our home and are extremely proud of our state! And like Texans, CO'ans can also be rather egocentric, (I was born here, so I can say that! ) And we are fiercely protective of our home, which outsiders often seek to exploit.

I believe Texans get singled out for a few reasons: [Californians and people from Utah, (or sadly “U’tards”, as I’ve occasionally heard them referred), get targeted as well…but that’s another post!]

• A lot of the tourists come from Texas, and like most tourist destinations, the locals have a bit of a “love/hate” relationship with the tourists. Many of the ‘transplants' move here from Texas too, and the common perception is that all they talk about is how much better and “bigger” everything is "back in Texas”.

• Texans were also among some of the first 'outsiders' to exploit the natural gas industry after the bottom fell out of the Texas oil industry, (at least out where I live.) Texans own a lot of land in Colorado. (Lots of conflict results from people realizing they don’t own the mineral or water rights to their own land…land their great-great-grandparents homesteaded, winds up littered with natural gas wells, trucks kicking up dust, creating dust storms, as they move water, oil and equipment to-and-from the wells, destroying the nearby drinking water, in the process.)

• Finally, and most apparently, Texans tend to be awful drivers- you know, the people riding their brakes, brakes smoking as they descend Vail pass, almost coming to a stand still as they crawl up the other side, nearly causing pile ups along in their wake and rarely using their turn signals.

Texans are usually pretty easy to recognize in their giant, loud diesel trucks, with oil well (i.e. fracking) equipment in the back, "skiing in their jeans" and nearly causing car accidents along the way.

 

[blueberry99]

Please note: this post describes the common perceptions that some have of Texans, and are not necessarily my feelings…so please don’t blast me for the attempted explanation.


Coloradoans have one big thing in common with Texans: we love our home and are extremely proud of our state! And like Texans, CO'ans can also be rather egocentric, (I was born here, so I can say that! ) And we are fiercely protective of our home, which outsiders often seek to exploit.

I believe Texans get singled out for a few reasons: [Californians and people from Utah, (or sadly “U’tards”, as I’ve occasionally heard them referred), get targeted as well…but that’s another post!]

• A lot of the tourists come from Texas, and like most tourist destinations, the locals have a bit of a “love/hate” relationship with the tourists. Many of the ‘transplants' move here from Texas too, and the common perception is that all they talk about is how much better and “bigger” everything is "back in Texas”.

• Texans were also among some of the first 'outsiders' to exploit the natural gas industry after the bottom fell out of the Texas oil industry, (at least out where I live.) Texans own a lot of land in Colorado. (Lots of conflict results from people realizing they don’t own the mineral or water rights to their own land…land their great-great-grandparents homesteaded, winds up littered with natural gas wells, trucks kicking up dust, creating dust storms, as they move water, oil and equipment to-and-from the wells, destroying the nearby drinking water, in the process.)

• Finally, and most apparently, Texans tend to be awful drivers- you know, the people riding their brakes, brakes smoking as they descend Vail pass, almost coming to a stand still as they crawl up the other side, nearly causing pile ups along in their wake and rarely using their turn signals.

Texans are usually pretty easy to recognize in their giant, loud diesel trucks, with oil well (i.e. fracking) equipment in the back, "skiing in their jeans" and nearly causing car accidents along the way.

lol.....good stuff, I actually cracked a huge smile while I read all that. I'm from the Southeast (not texas) and am used to people assuming I'm a conservative mouth breather...in my travels, I've always been hesitant to admit where I'm from... "you're from xxxxxxx? I don't hear an accent?"

 

[ZZTops]

"Californy is the place you ought to be"

Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Well the first thing you know ol Jed's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Jed move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.

Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.

 

[iwannaretire]

Never In my life have I heard somebody from here say we got genetics from Colorado! Ever since weed became legal in Colorado and Washington the claims from your statemen about your dominance in the weed game forever is beyond laughable and extremely ignorant!!! Just remember one thing, there's still a TON of peeps passing Colorado from the East on their way to CALI for that kind that you can't find in Colorado!. Humboldt County is a iconic and legendary weed zone known around the world and anybody in the states who doesn't show it that respect is a fuckin HATER!

Humboldt is to be respected the same way washed up rock stars who now do Pepsi commercials are to be respected.

It's been over there for 20 years. Just money and gangsters. But originally it was amazing

 

[iwannaretire]

Boulder is a disaster. it's california in Colorado. Nothing Colorado about boulder at all. All the rest of the states hates- capital H- boulder.

Montana, oddly, is real and rural and honest. Colorado is done. Too many people. Most of them rich hiking enthusiasts tax dodging california trust fund state income tax.

 

[nattynattygurrl]

lol.....good stuff, I actually cracked a huge smile while I read all that. I'm from the Southeast (not texas) and am used to people assuming I'm a conservative mouth breather...in my travels, I've always been hesitant to admit where I'm from... "you're from xxxxxxx? I don't hear an accent?"

lol, wow…Re-reading that a few days later, I was pretty tough on Texans.
For the record, they don’t really ski in their jeans, (at least not anymore…that's an old stereotype, I meant jokingly. )

Although I was born in CO, I did live in TX for a while as a kid, (shoot, my little sister was born there!)
I worked really hard to remove most traces of my accent…I was teased when we moved to VA, just to illustrate how bad it was…They couldn’t understand me and had no idea what a “rest-room” was when I would ask, lol.

Anyway, I empathize with your plight as a southerner trying to exist in a nose-breathing, equal-rights-supporting, evolution believing, flat-earth-denying world.

Those of us with accents just have to work a little harder to prove our bone fides.

Cheers to you Blueberry99!

And I agree about Boulder…far too many people/college kids.

 

[SaBeS]

lol, wow…Re-reading that a few days later, I was pretty tough on Texans.
For the record, they don’t really ski in their jeans, (at least not anymore…that's an old stereotype, I meant jokingly. )

Not true it's 55 hear in CO and yesterday saw a cowboy hat- jean wearin Texan skiing down the mountain.

It used to upset me but now I just laugh, i mean all texans can't act like this .... Right?

 

[Sforza]

Not true it's 55 hear in CO and yesterday saw a cowboy hat- jean wearin Texan skiing down the mountain.

It used to upset me but now I just laugh, i mean all texans can't act like this .... Right?

Why would you be upset about a person skiing in jeans?

 

[IGROWMYOWN]

Boulder is awesome period if I had to live anywhere other than Cali probably colorado I had a blast spending a couple summers there with family

 

[IGROWMYOWN]

"Californy is the place you ought to be"

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Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Well the first thing you know ol Jed's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Jed move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.

Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.

Funny because alot of Okies here in cali ...reminds me of when Texas played usc in the nc game at the rose bowl ...Loud Texans with horns on their trucks cowboy hats boots throwing Hook em horns everywhere might as well have been aliens as foreign as they were anyways I lived/worked in Pasadena at the time was pretty happy when that week was over.

 

[SaBeS]

Why would you be upset about a person skiing in jeans?

Because when you see the tight Jeand cowboy man flying down the mountain out of control and smash into a little kid yellin yehaw... Maybe the right gear might have helped.

Also all day long they look like they pissed themselves. (Wet ass)

I mean I know he likes showing his Texas pride but does he have to wear a cowboy hat and jeans everywhere.

 

[guerilllataktic]

if you mind your own business you can make a good home anywhere, i prefer some where not known for and famous for growing i believe you can hide easier and get better prices for your product just try to be off the grid as much as possible and keep your game tight don't get sloppy, by the way i was born and raised in southern humboldt and no longer a resident of california

 

[spunion]

Humboldt has the ocean, and the small town vibe if you're into that.

Boulder has the university, underrated food scene, more live music.

I've been in CO for 10 years, planning on moving this year. Deciding between NM, MT, and OR. Leaning NM. If I could buy a house anywhere and semi-retire, I'd be looking at Trinidad, CA first.