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In Boulder they consider themselves a separate metro area. I consider it part of the Denver area. Or as the U.S. Census Bureau would call it, the Denver, Aurora, Boulder CSA.
If you can drive from Denver to Boulder without really leaving town for more than a couple miles, it's part of the same city. Just my opinion though.
I have never been to any of them, and I don't have a well formed opinion about any of them...
but here is what I think of them (regardless of actual accuracy)
If I were to rank them:
1) Co Spring- 2 largest metro area, air force academy, big conservative Christian center. I think of this as being Colorado's only other sizable city.
2) Bolder- I would say this was a close 2nd. Liberal, college town. Cosmopolitan for a city its size, High quality of life. High technology economy.
3) Pueblo- growing city, smaller version of Colorado Springs.
4) Ft. Collins- western city, I think it has a university, maybe an military base?
5) Aurora- big suburb of Denver. Growing/ vibrant economy.
6) Greeley- I honestly have no idea where this even is??
I would like to actually go out and visit sometime.
Every time I go there that's all I ever hear it called. BTW I live 15 minutes from the place and I go there three to four times a year, often more. Also fyi I'm enrolled as a student there to earn college credits in High School. CU--Colorado University is all they ever call it.
Suuuuure they do.
I got my masters degree from the UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. I still know some of the professors. No one ever referred to it as Colorado University.
But hey, you're 17 and you know it all. So... carry on.
Just to reiterate it, CU is never ever called "Colorado University" as that is simply not the name of the school, The University of Colorado. I don't know how it got the letters as "CU", but amongst my friends from Mass, a suprising number of whom go to school there, it's usually just called "Boulder" or "CU". I guess I didn't need to get in the argument since other people have far closer connections to the school but I have never in my life heard it called Colorado University and felt I had to chime in.
PS- Gunna be out in Boulder for spring break. any recommendations on what must be experienced? (skiing and partying are already a given)
In answer to questions as to why the University of CO is referred to as CU...
From the CU Buffs site: Why is the University of Colorado known as CU and not UC or U of C?
The same applies at Kansas-KU, Missouri-MU, Nebraska-NU, Oklahoma-OU and Denver-DU. "Midwestern casualness," says former CU historian Fred Casotti. It has always been this way at the University of Colorado, for whatever reason, and at the other five listed above--but seemingly nowhere else in the USA. In the 1950s, there was a concerted effort to eliminate the use of "CU" on the Boulder campus, both as a symbol and in speech, but Casotti said that no one would buy into it. "It's easier to say than U of C, UC sounds like slang or something (as in 'you see'), and it was traditional. By trying to eliminate it, they reinforced it."
A friend who works there told me that he always thought it was to avoid confusion with the University of California. Their campuses are referred to as "UC"; UCLA, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, etc.
I have never been to any of them, and I don't have a well formed opinion about any of them...
but here is what I think of them (regardless of actual accuracy)
If I were to rank them:
1) Co Spring- 2 largest metro area, air force academy, big conservative Christian center. I think of this as being Colorado's only other sizable city.
2) Bolder- I would say this was a close 2nd. Liberal, college town. Cosmopolitan for a city its size, High quality of life. High technology economy.
3) Pueblo- growing city, smaller version of Colorado Springs.
4) Ft. Collins- western city, I think it has a university, maybe an military base?
5) Aurora- big suburb of Denver. Growing/ vibrant economy.
6) Greeley- I honestly have no idea where this even is??
I would like to actually go out and visit sometime.
Pueblo is far from a "smaller version of Colorado Springs". We are the economic and shoping center for 16 counties and have many large industries here and more moving all the time. Colroado Springs is a military and relgious city and is not a hub for more then the metro area.
Pueblo is far from a "smaller version of Colorado Springs". We are the economic and shoping center for 16 counties and have many large industries here and more moving all the time. Colroado Springs is a military and relgious city and is not a hub for more then the metro area.
Well the Colorado Springs Metro Area is a more important region to be a hub for as it has 611,000 residents.
Pueblo and the 16 counties surrounding it have the following SMALL populations
: Pueblo- 154,000
: Ortero- 20,100
: Crowley- 5,500
: Las Animas- 15,000
: Huerfano-7,800
: Custer- 3,500
: Fremont- 46,000
: Bent- 5,900
: Baca- 3,800
: Prowers- 13,100
: Kiowa- 1,300
: Costilla- 3,300
: Alamosa- 15,400
: Saguache- 7,000
: Cheyenne- 1,749
: Lincoln- 5,200
The population of Pueblo and its currounding counties is only 308,000. Colorado Springs city limits alone have 380,000 not includong the metro area.
I would say Colorado Springs serving 611,000 residents in its metro is more important that Pueblo trying to serve 308,000 largely rural region residents in low population counties. The fact is, Pueblo is smaller than Colorado Springs, even with 16 counties. Pueblo is over 100 miles away from many of these counties too, so residents might visit Pueblo once a month, if that.
-Also what are the "large industries in Pueblo???" The fact is nobody except you has really heard about it, just look at the poll.
Pueblo is far from a "smaller version of Colorado Springs". We are the economic and shoping center for 16 counties and have many large industries here and more moving all the time. Colroado Springs is a military and relgious city and is not a hub for more then the metro area.
GDP comparison based off of 2008. These are for MSA, not city proper.
Pueblo: $4 billion, ranked 309th nationally. Not bad.
Colorado Springs: $24.1 billion, ranked 86th nationally. Again, not bad.
Colorado Springs MSA is roughly four times larger than Pueblo, but has a GDP roughly six times larger. Pueblo's rate of economic growth in 2008 was 3.6%, slightly above Colorado Springs at 3.2%. Keep in mind, the larger the economy, the larger 1% is going to be as well. Thus Pueblo's economy grew by $14,400,000 in 2008, Colorado Springs by $77,120,000. Both out-paced the national average.
What I think this shows us is that Colorado Springs, as much as you may hate to admit it, is very much the hub of Southern Colorado. In terms of size, productivity, amenities, and even national prominence there isn't another city in Southern Colorado that even comes close.
I have relatives that live in Southern Colorado, and I can tell you that they and many family friends consider Colorado Springs, not Pueblo, the premier city in the region.
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