Happiest City in America
February 15, 2010 at 1:13 PM Leave a comment
I have the tremendous good luck and fortune to live in the “happiest and healthiest” city in America, Boulder, Colorado. It is a great place. And, it just so happens, I moved here from the third worst place to live, Flint, Michigan.
The “curse of Chief Niwot” is a legend around here:
Chief Niwot, it is said, as eloquent and capable as he was with the English language learned from his brother-in-law, his sister’s husband, the trapper John Poisal, told the European erstwhile settlers the area was cursed. He is said to have told them the Curse of Boulder Valley is: “People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty.”
Fact is, we haven’t screwed it up, yet. The people of Boulder voted to tax themselves, over and over again, so they could build a buffer of open space — trails, dog parks and green-ways — between them and the neon-lit, Taco Bell-Target-Walmart suburbs of Denver.
The citizens of Boulder — a very liberal town — were and are willing to pay to support a stupendous quality of life.
Compare that to the hell hole the winger tax-cutters in Colorado Springs, 90-minutes to the south, are living in.
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