Overrated and getting worse every year.
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6/21/2022
I've lived in the city since I was born (1998) and I just was ready to get out. I'm a Denver native and I am ashamed of my city. I moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania because of extremely expensive housing, recent wildfires, high property crime, and dirty air. I used to love Denver, and all the things about it, but now I feel that the Mile High City isn't even good anymore. Sure, it's better than a lot of other cities, but it's starting to get better than only a few instead of a lot. The mountains, although very beautiful, are overrated and full of money-hungry ski resorts. I was ready to say goodbye to Denver when 2020 hit. 2020 ruined Denver and a lot of other cities in the US. All the homeless camps in the city, expensive housing, decaying infrastructure in parts of Central West Denver (Pittsburgh has a much worse problem with that, but at least Pittsburgh is safe and clean), boarded up windows in many places throughout the city, and overall Denver is very overhyped. Denver sells themselves as an amazing liberal mountain oasis with happy people and low crime, but in reality, Denver is an overrated city that is okay at most, it takes an hour to get to some areas IN the city because of the outrageous traffic. Personally, I think you should move to Fort Collins or Golden if you can afford it. Ultimately, I'll always love Denver and Colorado, as it is my home, but I just feel that real Denver is gone now. It used to be a happy city full of great people and had low crime and amazing neighborhoods, now Denver is just like Seattle, LA, Portland, and Phoenix. All dirty, ruined, overrated cities in the West. I love you, Denver, but I couldn't stand it there anymore. I have no plans to ever move back to Denver.
Sanford | Carnegie, PA