the DENVER thread

am I going to have to give you a piggy-back ride home???

ha, i don't know, but i hope altitude sickness is like chicken pox? after my last trip i should be immune for life.

just drink a ton of water and you should be fine!!

ok. i love water so that works out well.

so are you going to see the offspring or cowboy troy this weekend, or both?

things i did in denver: went for a run in wash park (wow you guys sure love volleyball and dogs), went to heritage square amusement park with the family and went down the alpine slide, ate some ice cream at bonnie brae (tasty), went to some lame bars in that area (lame).

did you see anyone in madras shorts?

sorry I couldn't make it out to do anything this weekend :/

oh for sure. i bet they were going to the "do-it-yourself dog wash" down the street.

that's ok mandee, maybe next trip.

How expensive is it to rent here compared to, say, Portland? Or Seattle?

I rented a two-bedroom 1200 sq foot apt in the Baker neighborhood for $850.

"SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES WILL DEVELOP WEDNESDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE
INTO THURSDAY. TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 10 TO 18 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE...WITH UP TO 24 INCHES IN THE DENVER AREA. NORTH WINDS AT
15 TO 30 MPH WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW."

i tried to tell my 5 y/o--"this is one of the best times for you, you get to go to sleep hoping for a snow day." im pretty sure he'll get it this time.

Post pictures tomorrow!

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/snowjpg.jpg

19 1/2" so far, another 4-8 expected today.

What part of town are you in?

What are the pluses and minuses of living in Denver? We really liked the city and almost vaguely thought we would want to live there, but it might have been like that Cleveland episode of 30 Rock.

Where do you live now?

Pluses:
- Small enough to get around easily
- Feels like a community
- Clean, organized, nice to look out
- Mountains nearby
- Okay music scene
- Pretty good restaurants
- Mountains nearby
- Not too expensive

Cons:
- Pretty much the only big city around in like five hundred miles--I don't care about this, but some people do

i honestly didnt realize there were any other denver ilxors. wow, i am a fool!

oh, another cons: lots of mountain BRO culture and hippies around. i dont really mind these innocent folks, but some people get upset about it.

i don't live in denver, but i work there.
i think denver's cool, can't really put my finger on any *real* cons. I think compared to some cities, it might seems a tad boring/personality-less, but once you dig a little deeper there's plenty going on. some people complain about traffic (sometimes I do, too), but really, if you've lived in any other big-ish city, the traffic is not really remarkable.

I'll make it to Denver one day

Where do you live now?

― kkvgz, Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:17 AM Bookmark

Brooklyn. New York City often feels like too much for me although it's unlikely that I'll pick up and move to Denver.

Good things I noticed:
Never felt too crowded
Nice residential neighborhoods right in the city within a walk or short drive of commercial areas
Lots of green space
Love the stadiums being right downtown in a nice commercial area (we got $4 rockpile tickets, sat at a local brewery for a bit, waltzed right in for the 3rd-8th innings of the game, and then walked out)
Community -- my friend who I was staying with had several neighbors he was friendly with. I also noticed that it was easy for him to get several other people to show up for the game on short notice.
People generally care a lot about fitness and the outdoors

Negatives:
Did seem a little clean-cut and unvaried
Some parts were a little too empty
Felt like maybe it could get boring

This like us when we went out to New Mexico. Grass is always greener, amirite. Would still SRSLY love to live out there sometime though!

yeah, i think you can definitely stumble across parts of Denver that just feel like dull office parks where no one ever goes. but a bunch of the neighborhoods (wash park, s. broadway, highlands) really have nice, classic atmospheres. and downtown is surprisingly packed with stuff these days -- tons of great restaurants, awesome places to drink beer (a big part of my job currently is this: www.denverbeerfest.com), one of the better bookstores in the world ... oh, lotsa medicinal marijuana these days too.

dunno, i think one of the main problems with the perception of Denver, is that there's not a lot of romance/mystique surrounding it. when you tell people you live/work in Denver they're like "oh ..."

oh this place is wonderful for last minute-ness.

also denver used to have more mystique, but then they tore down buckingham square!

tyler, where do you live if you work here but don't live here? this is intriguing

oh, i just live in Longmont. i originally moved to/worked in boulder, and then my wife and i wanted to buy a house, and longmont is much cheaper than boulder. and then i ended up getting a job in Denver. fortunately i work from home half of the time, so i don't have to make the commute every day.

It's definitely a place where you kind of have to know a local to find the good stuff. Lots of people come here and stay downtown, wander around LoDo and the 16th street mall and crap and that's their only impression of the city. There's a lot more. It could stand to be more interesting, but the good news is that it's getting more and more so--there's a lot of support for local music and art, the weather doesn't totally suck, and there is the world's largest hobby train shoppe on south broadway (according to its signage).

yikes, that is a long drive. so people in longmont think that denver is boring?

haha, no, i don't think people in Longmont think Denver is boring. Friends on east/west coast might think Denver is boring.

and yeah, Caboose Hobbies! Pretty rad.

well you can just brag that you're that much closer to the lyons pinball museum!

are you involved with the local art scene? another thing i'm working on now is Denver Arts Week ... I can never tell whether people think it's a cool event, or just sort of lame. i feel like they don't do a good job of really engaging with the arts community, it just ends up being "there are galleries and museums" check em out.

however, when I made Adam start this thread in 2005 I was WAY more into Denver then. When I first moved here, in 2002 it was amazing. It was dirt cheap (I shared an apartment and my rent was $200/month) and there were all sorts of interesting things going on. I am sure there are interesting things still going on, but I'm just older and more into staying home and grumping around.

Another thing is that it's very easy to meet people here. Folks are interested in getting to know you. I definitely hear from friends who have moved to other places that they miss that about Denver.

the AV Club is hiring for a Denver/Boulder City Editor:

http://www.avclub.com/denver/articles/av-club-job-alert-city-editor-in-denverboulder,45116/

ha! maybe I'll apply. i used to write quite a bit for them. don't know if i'd actually like doing it though. (not that I'm terribly qualified.)

Since when would being terribly qualified matter? If you're funny like O'neal, you can rise from being a city editor to Head Newswire Editors and Deliverer of Snark, to the point where people complain when you're not doing Newswire updates

These things may be entirely my imagination, and I have no idea if the people I saw were even Denverites, but I was in Denver's airport last night (on the way from Philadelphia to Albuquerque) and I don't think I've ever seen so many guys striding around like cowboys. It's like there really is this macho thing going on that is totally not the urban sort of macho I'm used to, more ranch macho. I also swear I have never had so many women looking at me with appreciation at one time (not counting when I dance, when women who otherwise would never notice me suddenly start smiling at me). Is the male-to-female ratio really that tough there? But as I say, it could just be my imagination or at least the filters I had on regarding Denver. Plus I was just exhausted and desperate to get home.

My impressions of Denver based on lots of prejudice plus about two and a half hours spent in the airport. . .

tylerw you should apply for certain

HEY
DENVERITES

ANYONE KNOW OF A FURNISHED APARTMENT OR BEDROOM IN A SHARED HOME/APARTMENT AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER ONLY?

i find it v v odd that there is no one from denver on ilx

hmm i can't help you out with that. but since this is the DENVER thread, some of my friends from westword just started a "podcast" called the Denver Diatribe: http://denverdiatribe.wordpress.com/
it's good!

yr in longmont right tyler? i cant remember

J0hn D1ck3r is my homeboy.

I might know some people looking for a short-term roommate, but they'd be pretty annoying, younger radio1190 kids.

o yeah? i dont know john too well, but we have many many mutual friends.
i am in longmont, yes. but i'll be in denver this afternoon for what promises to be a horrible meeting. :D
in other denver news: i'm not going, but dudes from my old band are doing a GBV tribute set at the 404 Club tomorrow. i think a replacements cover band is playing too. so it'll be drunk at least.

kate78 that is fine!!!! my friend from alaska wants to move to denver for a couple of months.

404 is doing lots of shows lately; went to one last weekend that was super fun! my friend andrew is going to be playing in his band tonight at the Lion's Lair - its something called FRANKSGIVING

Come celebrate the 15th Annual Celebration of Frank Bell not kicking the bucket from Crohn's disease with special guests Rockabilly Madman Ralph Gean, Get Your Going! and LITTLE FYODOR!!! Free franks, the official foodstuff of Franksgiving!!! Donation bucket for Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America! $5, cheap!!

Actually copying and pasting that is kinda making me sad that I agreed to go. Rockabilly Madman? :/ :/ :/ Oh well at least it's for a good cause.

Also Bad Weather California is playing tomorrow night at Rhinoceropolis with Royal Baths and the Fresh & Onlys (3553 Brighton Blvd)

I am pretending as if someone might find the above info useful