the denver story continued...
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7/23/2007
denver is not diverse, and certainly not very integrated. relative to some places it is, but relative to most it's size it is not. very not. and that seems reflected in interactions with people in denver. it's not LA, it's not dallas, it's not NY, nor seattle, but if someone wanted a "nutshell" feel for it, doesn't seem way out of whack to say, "well, you might imagine an especially suburban, midwestern, and smaller scale version of a dallas/LA hybrid next to the mountains and populated with mostly ... midwesterners with a vague interest in a dallas/LA next to the mountains, it might seem". "and very sunny." to say it's "mostly new yorkers looking for tofu and granola that have issues with denver" (and i paraphrase a previous post) is disingenuous. i've personally spoken with denver natives that have plenty to say about how homogenized and "dude - goin snowboardin" denver can be. this is not to say denver's not nice in many ways, but it is also what it is in some other not as nice ways.
kevin | Denver, CO