The Couch

Most of you don’t know that I recently moved from Michigan, a state I’ve lived in for my entire life.  The last city I lived in was Troy and I must say, Boulder has been an upgrade.

Boulder offers a wide variety of people, unlike Troy, MI which was located in Oakland County.  Little known fact, Oakland County is apparently one of the top five wealthiest counties among counties with more than one million people.  This leads to a bunch of rich folk driving around in super expensive cars acting like they own the place.  Which in all honesty they probably do.  In Boulder I just need to worry about the huge amount of bicyclists on the road.  I’ve also had more conversations with random people while in Boulder than I did in the two years I lived in Troy.

Troy has a tenancy to close up shop around 9pm.  The only places I ever saw open later, was one Coney Island, a handful of Bars, and a couple grocery stores.  Apparently rich people don’t like to go out for a good time.  Boulder on the other hand seems to have people out at all hours.  It also has some of the best bars I’ve been to.  West End Tavern is a little bit of an upgrade from a chain restaurant that serves alcohol.

Lastly, the weather.  I have yet to complain once about how the humidity at 50 degrees is killing me outside.  It’s actually the opposite in Boulder, it seems dry all the time.  The best part about the weather is it seems like it’s sunny all the time.  Once winter hits in Michigan, the sun goes bye bye and you don’t see it till spring.  I generally like going outside here in Boulder, which is different than my experience in Troy.

In other words, if you’re in Michigan, don’t make Troy a vacation stop.  Only stop there if you want to get in fender bender with an Aston Martin just off of Exit 69 Big Beaver Rd.  Or if you want to say hi to my old roommates, who are all cool guys.

I’m not joking though, there really is an Exit 69 Big Beaver Rd.  In fact their slogan is “Why get off anywhere else?”

-Jon