Boulder is 26sq miles surrounded by reality - just ask anyone in Denver.

Those 'smartest city' polls always seem to define 'city' as 'something bigger than Los Alamos'.

Back in the day it was easily the most stoned city in the US.

/lived there

Sliding Carp: Those 'smartest city' polls always seem to define 'city' as 'something bigger than Los Alamos'.

They're all small college towns, hence the huge proportion of people with university degrees.

/Go Lawrence!

Boulder just wants to be Austin so very badly.

If any city warrants its own tag its Boulder.

/Born in Boulder

whiskeyinthejar: They're all small college towns, hence the huge proportion of people with university degrees.

Yeah, but my point was that Los Alamos has a phenomenally large percentage of PhD.s, but it never makes these lists because it's too small.

If you're going by asking the people who live there, i would have thought Chicago would have topped the list.

Maybe the 25 and over population around here is extremely 'smart', but the 24 and under population are heavily skewed towards 'functionally retarded'. There are plenty of exceptions (like all the young Boulder TFers), but this place earns its reputation as a haven for the worst kind of yuppies.

Just out of curiosity, can anyone direct me to national education averages? The stats they throw out for Boulder don't really mean much unless you have something for comparison.

As a CU Law student, I'm getting a real kick out of these replies...

/agrees with The Shoveller
//23 yo

/unavailable for comment

Nanu nanu?

Boulder Colorado is the smartest most educated city in the US

Fixed that for ya. You have to define your parameters with something like this.

I've always heard that the truly smart people avoid Boulder like the plage unless you're gassing up on the way to somewhere else.

/just the messenger here

ooh yay! another thread you can bash boulder as being elitist, socialist yuppie/hippie hellhole where you once lived for 4 months and then moved away but still decided for the rest of your adult life to bury the town in fark threads! yippie!

/your attempts at arguing with me are futile, i'm from the smartest city in America.
/oh, and go buffs!

There is definitely a green vibe there, but all the SUV's and Subaru's trolling the big box store parking lots kinda offset's it.

The Shoveller: Maybe the 25 and over population around here is extremely 'smart'

Not smart enough to solve any crimes, apparently.

Thanks, I came here to see Mork and Mindy.

Since when does "green" equals "smart"? Does it still equal "smug"?

Sliding Carp

Los Alamos is an order of magnitude smaller than Boulder. That's where the whole city part of smartest city comes in.

Couldn't it be said that the cost of living/housing is high enough there that it draws a more financially secure population, and that a greater percentage of said population are able to access secondary education?

/just askin'

SilentStrider: Quote 2008-02-10 04:39:26 PM
If you're going by asking the people who live there, i would have thought Chicago would have topped the list.

When unbidden, we just luxuriate in smug satisfaction over the fact.

Boulder has the highest percentage of people with Ph.D.s, which most decidedly means that it's not the smartest city.

Bethesda, Maryland

/don't live there

no it means they are more educated but that doesn't equate to being smart or having common sense.

As long as you leave your "intelligence" at the Boulder city limits, I could give a fark.

/don't need your intelligence in the rest of the flyover states.
//trust me

Counting down the days until I can leave this crappy, smug, pretentious excuse for a city.

NetPimp: Boulder is 26sq miles surrounded by reality - just ask anyone in Denver.

THIS.

/family in Loveland
//screw CU, Go Big Red!

Boulder: It's not so much a community as it is a collection of failed traffic experiments.

I'm jealous of anyone who lives in such a beautiful town, smart or not.

/Loves me some Flatirons.
//Lives in one of the stupidest cities (also a college town) in America.

DaCricket: Back in the day it was easily the most stoned city in the US.

/lived there

Are you sure that wasn't San Francisco? Not bashing either city... just saying.

Zaboomafoo: ooh yay! another thread you can bash boulder as being elitist, socialist yuppie/hippie hellhole where you once lived for 4 months and then moved away but still decided for the rest of your adult life to bury the town in fark threads! yippie!

/your attempts at arguing with me are futile, i'm from the smartest city in America.
/oh, and go buffs!

Farking rookie. New York City uses you to line their cat's litter boxes. And Denver takes pics.

Aren't they so stylish?

Up here in Longmont, the residents are all scared of what they call "Boulderization", which I presume means:

Houses actually worth a shiat
People with GEDs not getting chided for all that 'book learnin',
A shopping area that you can actually walk through
A mall where you won't get shot

Fabric_Man: Fixed that for ya. You have to define your parameters with something like this.

Indeed. I regularly interview software design geeks. I regularly see candidates fresh out of school with double masters who can't write ten lines of code in the language of their choice and who can't verbally answer a rough data structure design problem. Seriously, it amazes the hell out of me sometimes.

Lived in Boulder, now living in Denver.

Boulder is great, a bit at a time. Living there is insane- Socially I'm pretty liberal, but I've never seen so many over-the-top-with-political-correctness nutjobs in one place anywhere else. Just thousands of rich people wandering around in sandals searching high and low for things to be offended by.

Oh, and they all have a "cause," they're fighting for, regardless of whether or not they actually understand said cause.

Still a great place to go on the weekend, though!

sarcastrophe: Boulder: It's not so much a community as it is a collection of failed traffic experiments.

And certain mouthy professors that just won't shut up.

WFern: DaCricket: Back in the day it was easily the most stoned city in the US.

/lived there

Are you sure that wasn't San Francisco? Not bashing either city... just saying.

There's more to do and see in San Fran. Stoned or not.

Zaboomafoo

/your attempts at arguing with me are futile, i'm from the smartest city in America

Of course you are. Wouldn't think of arguing with you.

/From Longmont
//Rolls eyes
///Sticks tongue out in stunning display of maturity and adulthood

RoyBatty: Thanks, I came here to see Mork and Mindy.

Zaboomafoo: ooh yay! another thread you can bash boulder as being elitist, socialist yuppie/hippie hellhole where you once lived for 4 months and then moved away but still decided for the rest of your adult life to bury the town in fark threads! yippie!

This. Boulder is fine. It's just like any other college town with a location beautiful enough to drive property values way up, thus causing a strong influx of yuppies (who aren't bad, by the way; they're just people with a bunch of money). Don't like it? Move about 15 minutes northwest to Longtucky.

sarcastrophe: Boulder: It's not so much a community as it is a collection of failed traffic experiments.

You have just summed up my entire dispatching career.

/dispatching Boulder's ambulances right now
//from Arvada

crazynickstyle: Aren't they so stylish?

No. They are not (maddox)

Boulder might win for the douche-iest city, but thats about it.

I find it sort of entertaining that the only measure they use for 'intelligence' is the percentage of people with college degrees.

/lives down the road

Huggermugger: Bethesda, Maryland

/don't live there

Yeah, right.

CombMeOver: offset's


i'm not the grammar police, but this is worthy of a citizen's arrest, tasing, beatdown, and ass-raping

Actually, Woodinville, WA is the smartest city in the nation.

girljen

Don't like it? Move about 15 minutes northwest to Longtucky.

You mean northeast, don't you? Just how long did you live there?

Gone_Feral: /From Longmont

GARDEN ACRES REPRESENT!

//pounds fist against chest
///inside joke