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95% white, high min wage, college/retirement town, most jobs are in service and retail and refuse to commit to a schedule when hiring or even regularly assign 15 hours a week
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Prides itself in being woke, but if you're making less than six figures your can't afford a house and there aren't really any off campus apartments because "that's gentrifying"
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Young, poor people there live in housing co-ops, of which the majority don't accept students, splitting up houses more ways than they have bedrooms
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They do interesting things like force every business to integrate four garbage cans with charts on how to sort their companies waste - compost, landfill, metal, and plastic
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And they astroturf and keep Walmart and other chains out, except a subsidiary of Kroger
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So poor people can't even afford fresh food because it's ALL fucking organic health food groceries
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Oh also, if there are three unrelated people in one house
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And you need to register as a corporation, pay taxes as one, be regulated by the boulder housing authority, and have everyone sign away their 4th amendment rights as they pertain to the home
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Bit they're very woke and green and organic and they VoTe WiTh ThEiR dOlLaRs