This powerpoint is a persuasive agrument for why you and yours should move to Boulder, Colorado. The slides touch on all major areas--quality of life, jobs, food, prairie dogs. I love to make slide shows like this. They're great for convincing loved ones! Please let me know if I can make one for your target city!
6. Boulder is consistently voted Best _____
Let’s take a look at how people, surveyors, and statistics rate Boulder
7. Boulder according to the peeps
Top 10 Winter Towns - National Geographic, Dec. 21, 2010
America's "Brainiest" City - Portfolio.com, Dec. 1, 2010
America's Top 25 Arts Destinations, AmericanStyle magazine. Boulder ranked ninth among smaller cities.
Savvy Award from 3CMA for best interview/talk show, Inside Boulder News.
Sustainability Award from Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association for the city's 75th Street Wastewater
Treatment Facility
Grand Award for Engineering Excellence from the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain
Managers for the Elmer's Two-mile Creek Greenways project
"America's Foodiest Town" (Ranking #1) - Bon Appétit magazine, October 2010
Best Quality of Life for Mid-Sized US Cities - Portfolio.com, June 2010
"Ten best cities for the next decade" (Ranking #4) - Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, May 2010
Top 25 Destinations in the US (Ranking #19) - TripAdvisory.com
Top 100 Places to Live: including Top 10 Overall Cities (Ranking #9); Top 10 Recovery Cities (Ranking
#10); Top 10 Earth Friendly Cities (Ranking #4); Top 10 Recreation Cities (Ranking #1) -
RelocateAmerica.com
"Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index" (Ranking #1) - USA Today, February 2010
"Healthiest Town in U.S." (Ranking #2) - Men's Health, January 2010
Traveler's Choice 2010 Best Destinations "Top 25 Destinations in the United States" (Ranking #19) -
www.tripadvisor.com
8. Oh. And a 2010 Gallup poll found It’s America’s
happiest and healthiest city
Two hands in the air happy.
9. Ya ya, but what’s the real deal
Boulder: http://www.city-
data.com/city/Boulder-Colorado.html
DC: http://www.city-
data.com/city/Washington-District-of-
Columbia.html
10. Quality of life: Why boulder rocks!
•Most days are sunny
•Surrounded by more than 36,00 acres of recreational open
space, conservation easements, and nature preserves
•World Class hiking trails
•Abundance of rock climbing
•Boulder International Film Festival held every February—Filmmakers and
actors flock to
•Home to a variety of music—every summer there is a 6 week musical
festival
•Home to University of Colorado
•Mass transit is top notch! Extensive bus system runs every ten minutes.
Commuter rail currently being built
•Well-known for it’s bicycle culture—hundreds of miles of bike paths, lanes
and routes—city offers website to help you map a bike ride to anywhere
•Wildlife protection extends to the Urbs (urban areas)
•Nobel Prize winners live here
20. University of Colorado (7,500)
IBM (4,500)
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
(3,000[57])
Level 3 Communications (2,500)
National Institute of Standards and
Technology and National Oceanic and
Big employers: Atmospheric Administration (1,700[58])
Covidien, formerly Tyco Healthcare
Group (1,700)
LeftHand Networks (200) City of Boulder (1,600)
Rally Software National Center for Atmospheric
Development (200) Research (1,100)
Ericsson (180) Crispin Porter + Bogusky (600+)
OSI (150) Micro Motion (500)
Microsoft (150) Crocs (550)
Array Biopharma (125) Lockheed Martin (450)
HEI Medical, formerly Polycom (350)
Colorado MedTech (125) Markit (300)
Otologics LLC (75) Celestial Seasonings (250)
Google[59] (100) Medtronic (225)
Cisco Systems (100) Roche Colorado (225)
RealD Cinema Particle Measuring Systems (225)
22. Did I mention the food is great?
Healthy too!
Lots of jobs
Science and techy
Environmentally conscious and forward
thinking
Highly skilled and educated
![What is boulder?
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a detached and rounded or worn
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