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Denver offers pretty much anything Boulder has w/out the headaches of living in a college town and is far less expensive.
(where I live)SM - personally, LA is about as far removed from "outdoors" as you can get. Sure, there's a beach, but it is so nasty I would never think of it as an "escape". Also, you need a few million to live comfortably. (where I used to live)
Living comfortably is a big deal to me, personally, and that is impossible in SF and SM without being truly loaded. CO offers very similar weather, you get bike trails outside your door, mtns minutes away (3 hour drive doesn't really count, imho).
The only downside to CO, imho, is that there is too much sun (subjective, same as CA) and no water. I don't count nasty beaches as water, though, so I wouldn't put SM as having water either (that's me, I don't surf, I like to swim).
Lastly, everywhere is what you make of it. Still the best mtn biking I've done was in Florida (again, subjective), so you can't always just go off the brochure.