Bizarro Villes
Mike,
Shortly after moving from Bowie, MD to Boulder, CO, I started thinking about the differences between the two towns. Was there anything I really missed in Bowie that I’d like to go back for? No. Most of our Bowie friends have moved away, Or they already lived in other places, so there were very few people left in Bowie for us to go visit. And now we live in a place that friends and relatives go out of their way to visit. Why do they come here (aside from visiting us, that is)? Well, let me count the ways. I listed the differences between the two towns and found them so different, that they are like Bizarro worlds. Maybe not so extremely different as the worlds in DC Comic Books, but really, really different. I could list even more differences than I have in the link below, but I want to spend more time actually enjoying the differences!
–rakkity
Besides the number of micro brews, my favorite: Days with cerulian skies strewn with puffy cumuli 200+ : Like today
Comment by michael — May 31, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
Start posting house listings on the blog, please — Mike’s almost ready to move, and after that slam-dunk comparison, so are we all, most likely! Sounds DEE-lightful!
Cerulean, BTW …
Comment by adam — May 31, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
The thing that would really excite me is how long a year in Boulder apparently is, based on sunny days plus totally cloudy days: 410 days. (Maybe it’s even longer, because surely there are SOME which are somewhat cloudy.) I could use 230+ non-teaching days a year.
Comment by Jennifer — May 31, 2007 @ 7:15 pm
Powder!
Comment by travis — May 31, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
Cerulean! (I’ll add that to my mental spell checker)
Let’s see, 300 sunny days (from the chamber of commerce of every city in Colorado) and 240 non totally-cloudy days according to the (probably more reliable)
http://www.city-data.com/city/Boulder-Colorado.html.
Anyway, skies are cerulean here and therefore seem longer, so maybe we have 410 cerulean equivalents.
Fixing that spurious cerulian right away…clickity click…
And this afternoon I found an 11th microbrew pub!
Comment by rakkity — May 31, 2007 @ 8:54 pm