Boulder is half students, half startups, and part hippie. It is a cool town with some neat local shops and very close to hiking, but with the housing is pretty expensive compared to cities around it (like Louisville and Superior) and there can sometimes be this local attitude that Boulder is the only place to live and is known as the "hippie" town sometimes. Weather is typical Colorado: snow in the winter, hot in the summer. But you cannot beat the veiws coming into Boulder.