Fun canyon flying

I see you're out of Ft. Collins. My company tried to get me to move out
there about a year ago. At the time everyone said you had to learn to
drive a tractor if you moved there.

That's funny, Fort Collins is about as far from rural as you're gonna
get. It's just a 'burb of Denver.

"Newps" wrote in message
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That's funny, Fort Collins is about as far from rural as you're gonna
get. It's just a 'burb of Denver.

Only someone from Montana would call a city over an hour's drive from
another city, and with plenty of open space between, a "suburb" of that
other city.

That said, certainly there's nothing about Fort Collins that supports the
"you have to learn to drive a tractor" comment. I find it hard to believe
that anyone who actually knew anything about Fort Collins would say that,
never mind everyone. My impression of Fort Collins, from my several visits
there, is that it's part college town, part tech industry town, with a bit
of left-over frontier West mentality. Mostly, it's pretty much like any
other medium-sized city I've seen, and there's definitely not a lot of
places to drive a tractor, not in the city anyway.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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That's funny, Fort Collins is about as far from rural as you're gonna
get. It's just a 'burb of Denver.

Only someone from Montana would call a city over an hour's drive from
another city, and with plenty of open space between, a "suburb" of that
other city.

Actually people from Montana wouldn't know what a "suburb" is and would call
this "the next town/city" :-) Yes, Montana does have "cities", just
depends on your definition... :-) as Great Falls is not "rural" but it
isn't an "urban metropolis" either (50,000 people in the middle of no
where)...

Wade Hasbrouck
(although I currently live in Seattle, grew up in Great Falls, MT)

P.S. I realize you weren't intentionally making fun of people from Montana
or Montana itself... :-), but I just couldn't resist either... :-)

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:34:38 -0700, "Wade Hasbrouck"
wrote:
Actually people from Montana wouldn't know what a "suburb" is and would call
this "the next town/city" :-) Yes, Montana does have "cities", just
depends on your definition... :-) as Great Falls is not "rural" but it
isn't an "urban metropolis" either (50,000 people in the middle of no
where)...

Kind of an "if you have a Wal-Mart, you're at least a town, if you
have a Starbucks, you're a city" ???

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:34:38 -0700, "Wade Hasbrouck"
wrote:
Actually people from Montana wouldn't know what a "suburb" is and would
call
this "the next town/city" :-) Yes, Montana does have "cities", just
depends on your definition... :-) as Great Falls is not "rural" but it
isn't an "urban metropolis" either (50,000 people in the middle of no
where)...

Kind of an "if you have a Wal-Mart, you're at least a town, if you
have a Starbucks, you're a city" ???

Same thing if you call your saloons "night clubs".

Matt Barrow wrote:

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:34:38 -0700, "Wade Hasbrouck"
wrote:

Actually people from Montana wouldn't know what a "suburb" is and would
call
this "the next town/city" :-) Yes, Montana does have "cities", just
depends on your definition... :-) as Great Falls is not "rural" but it
isn't an "urban metropolis" either (50,000 people in the middle of no
where)...

Kind of an "if you have a Wal-Mart, you're at least a town, if you
have a Starbucks, you're a city" ???


Same thing if you call your saloons "night clubs".

Does calling your strip joints art galleries count? :-)

Matt

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:11:34 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:
Does calling your strip joints art galleries count? :-)

If so, then what is the metropolitan area classification for when you
call 'em "titty flop bars"?

Naval Homeports?

Anyplace can have a Starbucks. A true criteria of "civilization"
(or civilisation) is Nordstrom's and a quality bookstore.

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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Kind of an "if you have a Wal-Mart, you're at least a town, if you
have a Starbucks, you're a city" ???


I've thought for years the US Postal service could save untold millions if
they would use the Wal-Mart meter to judge weather a place gets its own post
office. Around here every wide spot in the road (WSITR) has a post office
when they could very easily be served by the post office in a nearby town.

There seemed to be a real building boom for POs in the 90's where the little
wood frame buildings all got replaced with a brick building which in almost
all the cases I've noticed were the most expensive building in town.