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Curious: From your perspective, what are some reasons you prefer Chattanooga over Boulder?

gregkerzhner 10y ago
The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing). This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.
- AznHisoka 10y ago
  What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.
  - caleblloyd 10y ago
    a yuppie has an expensive car and house, a hipster has a bike and roommates, and a millennial borrows their parent's car and lives at home
    - Grishnakh 10y ago
      Age too: yuppies are generally older ("yuppie" was a popular term in the 80s), hipsters are probably in their early 30s, and millennials are in their 20s-early 30s.
  - graton 10y ago
    Well "yuppie" came from Young Urban Professional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? A "yuppie" is an term of 1980s vintage for "young urban professional", formed directly from the phrase. A "hipster" is a term of more recent invention, for basically the same thing (a young urban professional). Both carry some implications of both in-group trendiness and conspicuous consumption though, with the changing character of the times, the "yuppie" has stronger associations with conspicuous consumption and "hipster" with trendiness with less general conspicuous consumption (and perhaps an outward, though often skin deep, rejection of consumerism.) A millennial is a member of a particular generational cohort, basically the group now between the mid-teens and mid-30s. Modern hipsters/yuppies are probably also millenials, but plenty of millenials are neither.
  - joeclark77 10y ago
    Does anybody remember the terms DINK or BoBo? Some fun nicknames for demographics that I haven't heard in a while.
    - Infernal 10y ago
      DINK as in "dual income no kids"? That one is still in common usage as far as I know, I have heard at least a couple people say it in the past month. Never heard of BoBo as far as I can recall.
      - joeclark77 10y ago
        It meant "bourgeois bohemian", and referred to the sort of yuppies who shop at Whole Foods and style themselves as hippies. I knew a bunch of people who thought it applied to themselves or their friends in the early 2000s. But I haven't heard it much in five or ten years now.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    They are stereotypes denoting different generational cultures (wikipedia calls it "demographic cohort"). If I made your list chronologically I would put "Generation X" between yuppie and hipster. Every generation gets a name, huge swaths of commerce depend on it.
- bbarn 10y ago
  Funny, as a cyclist - Chatanooga was a really exciting prospect for a trip. There's beautiful mountains to ride on, great looking roads, etc... but the locals were awful to deal with when we went. I have had less altercations and negative experiences with people in Chicago than there. Boulder on the other hand was always great for that. Chatanooga proper seems to have done it's best to be welcoming, but it's the mountains nearby that are the draw, and the folks up there, well.. let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome.
  - joshmarlow 10y ago
    I'm not a cyclist but I've heard similar complaints from cyclists about the area. The downtown is getting more bike-friendly with dedicated lanes here and there, but - as you said - the mountains are the real appeal there. It's something we need to work on. Sorry you didn't have a great experience!
    - stray 10y ago
      Hey Josh! It's funny -- I was reading that in your voice even before I saw that it actually was you.
  - archon 10y ago
    > let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome. I'm extremely curious to know where you saw that. I live in Chattanooga, and I've never seen such a thing. I am sorry you had such a bad experience with the cycling and can sympathize. I stopped riding on public streets here a couple years back. Not worth my life.
  - stray 10y ago
    Very clear non-whites weren't welcome? I'm going to have to ask for proof because it hasn't been 1961 for a very long time now. And Chatty is a very very long way from Vidor, Texas.
    - bbarn 10y ago
stray 10y ago
Boulder is a bit snobby and decidedly unfriendly (in a "I disapprove of your failure to believe precisely what everybody else thinks" sort of way). And it's godawful expensive. And not to put too fine a point on it, but motherfuck the snow. And Boulder rent.

The appeal of both places is that they have a wealth of outdoor activities really close by (especially rock climbing). This is subjective, but I think the rock climbing is better in Chattanooga. Also, people are friendlier and more down to earth in Chatty, its that southern hospitality after all. The Boulderites have a reputation for being snobs and yuppies. Also the cost of living is way cheaper in Chattanooga.

AznHisoka 10y ago
What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? I get these buzzwords confused.
- caleblloyd 10y ago
  a yuppie has an expensive car and house, a hipster has a bike and roommates, and a millennial borrows their parent's car and lives at home
  - Grishnakh 10y ago
    Age too: yuppies are generally older ("yuppie" was a popular term in the 80s), hipsters are probably in their early 30s, and millennials are in their 20s-early 30s.
- graton 10y ago
  Well "yuppie" came from Young Urban Professional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > What's the difference between a yuppie, a hipster and a millenial? A "yuppie" is an term of 1980s vintage for "young urban professional", formed directly from the phrase. A "hipster" is a term of more recent invention, for basically the same thing (a young urban professional). Both carry some implications of both in-group trendiness and conspicuous consumption though, with the changing character of the times, the "yuppie" has stronger associations with conspicuous consumption and "hipster" with trendiness with less general conspicuous consumption (and perhaps an outward, though often skin deep, rejection of consumerism.) A millennial is a member of a particular generational cohort, basically the group now between the mid-teens and mid-30s. Modern hipsters/yuppies are probably also millenials, but plenty of millenials are neither.
- joeclark77 10y ago
  Does anybody remember the terms DINK or BoBo? Some fun nicknames for demographics that I haven't heard in a while.
  - Infernal 10y ago
    DINK as in "dual income no kids"? That one is still in common usage as far as I know, I have heard at least a couple people say it in the past month. Never heard of BoBo as far as I can recall.
    - joeclark77 10y ago
      It meant "bourgeois bohemian", and referred to the sort of yuppies who shop at Whole Foods and style themselves as hippies. I knew a bunch of people who thought it applied to themselves or their friends in the early 2000s. But I haven't heard it much in five or ten years now.
- rhizome 10y ago
  They are stereotypes denoting different generational cultures (wikipedia calls it "demographic cohort"). If I made your list chronologically I would put "Generation X" between yuppie and hipster. Every generation gets a name, huge swaths of commerce depend on it.
bbarn 10y ago
Funny, as a cyclist - Chatanooga was a really exciting prospect for a trip. There's beautiful mountains to ride on, great looking roads, etc... but the locals were awful to deal with when we went. I have had less altercations and negative experiences with people in Chicago than there. Boulder on the other hand was always great for that. Chatanooga proper seems to have done it's best to be welcoming, but it's the mountains nearby that are the draw, and the folks up there, well.. let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome.
- joshmarlow 10y ago
  I'm not a cyclist but I've heard similar complaints from cyclists about the area. The downtown is getting more bike-friendly with dedicated lanes here and there, but - as you said - the mountains are the real appeal there. It's something we need to work on. Sorry you didn't have a great experience!
  - stray 10y ago
    Hey Josh! It's funny -- I was reading that in your voice even before I saw that it actually was you.
- archon 10y ago
  > let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome. I'm extremely curious to know where you saw that. I live in Chattanooga, and I've never seen such a thing. I am sorry you had such a bad experience with the cycling and can sympathize. I stopped riding on public streets here a couple years back. Not worth my life.
- stray 10y ago
  Very clear non-whites weren't welcome? I'm going to have to ask for proof because it hasn't been 1961 for a very long time now. And Chatty is a very very long way from Vidor, Texas.
  - bbarn 10y ago

stray 10y ago

Boulder is a bit snobby and decidedly unfriendly (in a "I disapprove of your failure to believe precisely what everybody else thinks" sort of way). And it's godawful expensive. And not to put too fine a point on it, but motherfuck the snow. And Boulder rent.