Moved to Boulder County in the early 2000s. Do you like their music?

The music scene at that time was pretty good.

We had a good music scene, too.

I lived on the same block as the Mercury Cafe for several years. They had some interesting events.

Those were the days.

When I think back what amazes me most is how cheap it was to live.

When I moved to Boulder in 1982 I lived in a place on Broadway across from CU. Shared the place with two other guys. We paid $50.00 apiece per month. I could get by really well doing odd jobs.

I paid $450 a month for a darling apartment in an old Victorian in Capitol Hill, across the alley from the Molly Brown House. My oldest son, an EMT, is almost 27 and is just now renting his own place with two other guys; he could never afford to live by himself. He works hard 40 hours a week and I will still have to help him with grocery money. How far we have fallen.