Awful
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10/18/2015
In the last 3 years Denver has become an overgrown, overpopulated, metropolis. People have been flocking here for years, but only in the last 3 has it really changed for the worst. The legalization of MJ has definitely caused a spike in population in the last year alone, every other vehicle you see is from out of state as Marijuana tourism has not slowed down even though it's legal in 4 other states now. They have crammed so many half million dollar condos on every bare piece of land they could find in the city, it's not rare to see million dollar condos next to low income housing projects- which will inevitably be torn down because the yuppies think they "discovered" a hip, new area.The average price for rent, even in crappy areas- is about 1200.00-1300.00 dollars, 4 or 5 years ago you could rent a decent apartment for 7-800.00 dollars a month but since now it's supposedly a "hip and trendy" place to live, we all get punished with higher rent prices, well punished if you aren't a yuppie or trust fund baby who enjoys forking out thousands of dollars for a closet sized room, also if you can't afford to pay a minimum of 200k for a house, buying one in Denver will be impossible. The crummiest, and smallest of homes now average 200-250k (at the cheapest), no matter how small and crummy it is. Go with lentrification is spreading to other areas because there's no more room left in "the highlands" for all the yuppies and hipsters to live and open any more bars and restaurants in. By the way, I lived in what is now known as "the highlands" most of my life, and in less than 5 years it became unbearably filled with annoying, loud mouthed, drunk idiots who can't respectfully walk around the neighborhood at 12am on a Tuesday without yelling and acting like attention starved high schoolers, not to mention that you can't find any parking and sometimes you won't even get to park in front of your own home because some yuppie bar hoppers beat ya to it.Don't get me wrong, I initially thought it was great that the city was getting vamped up a little, it didn't really need that much to be honest, but now it's just another overbloated, cesspool like San Francisco or L.A., homeless people everywhere and plenty of rich folks to counter that.Im not some "native" bumper sticker lover, I'm just someone that is disappointed about what people moving here consider "progress", no one I know who has lived here all of their life, enjoys any of this. Denver was fine without the constant traffic at every hour of the day, fine without the overrated hipster and yuppie "culture" or lack of is more like it.
Marta | Arvada, CO