Reviews & Comments
Denver, CO
re: An Actual Review Not Just Angry Rambling.
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3/1/2020I am one of those native grumblers from the 70's and the reviews we have given ARE real.
Just because we have lived here much longer than you doesnt make them any less accurate. You are factually wrong about crime. Statistically speaking Denvers crime has some of the worst in the nation. And the mountains? Well if you dont mind 3 hours travel each way on a weekend, have at it! I don't have the time or patience for that.
No one mentioned the self entitled millennials. The are everywhere and obnoxious. I worked with a lot of them and most were nice folks but my gosh, there were sooo self absorbed and self-entitled. It's uncanny. Winters have COLD nights and those 50 degree winters days just means there are 2 hours of nice 50 degree weather during the middle of the day. It is bone chilling cold when you go to work in the morning and come home at night. Housing prices? Well, that's just embarrassing for a land locked, ugly city with snow.
Denver, CO
re: if you're ok with...
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3/1/2020If you don't wait at least 5 seconds after your light turns green you will get hit by a duche wad running a red light that was red for a long time before they drove right thru it. Seriously, NEVER time a light and NEVER go just because the light is green. ALWAYS look both ways; twice.
Denver, CO
re: if you're ok with...
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3/1/2020You must be a millennial! Tons of those in Denver.
St. Petersburg, FL
re: Amazing, beautiful, progressive, growing
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3/1/2020Steve, Steve, Steve. First off, there is no right or wrong. These are subjective views. So to say Jesse's post is "hilarious and totally wrong" is short sighted. Second, I could no agree with Jesse more. I moved here from Denver for several reasons. People think Denver is so great. But St Pete kicks butt over Denver. When I say Saint Pete I am referring to the "bubble" area of St Pete; perhaps a 5 square mile radius. The rest of Pinellas county does not impress me. St Pete has everything I want. I moved away from Denver for several reasons: traffic, crowds, cold, snow, housing costs, too many hipster millennials that are self entitled, ugly landscape (brown and dirty half the year), ugly huge boxes pretending to be homes. So take the opposite of all that and you have St Pete. I we have a great art scene and brew pubs and coffee shops. progressive. always something to do. I few nights ago rode my bike to the bay at sunset and watched the dolphins breach and then played tennis under the lights; on a winter night. 70 degress. Fantastic. As I write this I am sitting on my porch in 75 degree weather listening to birds and watching lizards and butterflies mill about. Incredible. So for me St Pete is great. For you it is not Steve. Do us all a favor and leave if you hate it so much. The last thing people that love St Pete want is people living here, clogging the streets, that don't even want to be here and instead just bash it.
Denver, CO
re: Do a lot of research before moving here!
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5/7/2019 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.