I am a 57 year old native of denver and I can tell you that this place has turned to sh*t and I really miss the days of no I-70 mountain traffic, $30 lift tickets, affordable housing, very little I-25 traffic and almost zero I-25 traffic when the Broncos played at home and basically 2 major highways; I-70 and I-25. Now there are 7. Back in the day, the rest of the country made fun of us, calling us a cowtown. Now all those people who made fun of us have moved here and have ruined the city. Thanks for that. Traffic is horrendous, drivers are rude, people running red lights is a common as people smoking weed while they drive (and running that red light) accidents are everywhere, the smog is back in full force. they had cleaned it up in the 80's and 90's but so much for that. The city is aesthetically unpleasing to me. No green trees and shrubbery in the winter, no water, lots of dirty gravel roads, tons of urban sprawl with a few pockets of cool architecture and street planning here and there. But mostly urban sprawl. The cost of housing is embarrassing for a land locked city with cold winters and snow. It is a progressive city with culture and art and music and museums and such so that's a plus. But it's just no worth it to me. Yes those mountains are pretty cool. But who cares if it takes you 6 hours there and back to explore them. Rivers are full of fly fisherman that have caught the same trout over and over. The ski slopes and lift lines? HAH! The hiking trails? HAH! The trail to Hanging Lakes is being destroyed faster than you can save "leave it alone!". The mountains basically don't exist to me anymore since getting there on a weekend (friday early morning thru sunday late) is not worth the 2 years it takes off my life from stress and the 6 hours taken out of my day for what once was a 3 hour round trip. Do yourself a favor, don't move here. I left literally a week ago to greener pastures, warmer weather, bays and oceans, cheap housing, culture and a city with a 3rd of the population of denver but with all the brew pubs and coffee shops and hipness Denver has.
Scott |
Denver, CO |
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