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Fort Collins or Denver?

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Fort Collins or Denver?

  • Fort Collins

    Votes: 10 50.0%

  • Denver

    Votes: 7 35.0%

  • Please explain

    Votes: 3 15.0%
  • Total voters
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I've never been to Denver-besides the airport, but Ft. Collins is awesome-it is a college town so the music scene is cool, Fat Tire brewery, great hiking, town doesn't have a "suburban cornfield" feel like, say, Hilliard or West Chester, Denver is close for really big music venues.
I don't see the appeal of living in a gigantic city-you can drive to see a show, and having a Syrian or Peruvian or Croatian restaurant down the street really isn't a trade off for thuggery, no parking, bad schools, sky high rent,etc.
 
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stxbuck;752938; said:
I've never been to Denver-besides the airport, but Ft. Collins is awesome-it is a college town so the music scene is cool, Fat Tire brewery, great hiking, town doesn't have a "suburban cornfield" feel like, say, Hilliard or West Chester, Denver is close for really big music venues.
I don't see the appeal of living in a gigantic city-you can drive to see a show, and having a Syrian or Peruvian or Croatian restaurant down the street really isn't a trade off for thuggery, no parking, bad schools, sky high rent,etc.
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Me: Underground covered parking, no kids, I'll concede the expensive PSF costs, and my 5'1" wife has been running the city streets alone at 5:00 A.M. for years w/o incident. Taking a free shuttle bus to work and walking home most days (i.e., not fighting traffic) kicks butt too. Other than trading space for centrality, no real drawbacks for me.
 
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Jagdaddy;752910; said:
Gotta go with Denver. I haven't spent much time in F. Collins, but it seems like a decent mid-sized university town . . . notwithstanding that I prefer CU to CSU.

However, from my downtown Denver loft I can WALK to games at Coors Field, the Pepsi Center, Invesco Field (at Mile high), the largest performing complex West of the Mississippi until you get to LA, parks, a huge independent book store, a wide variety of restaurants/bars, movie theaters (including the STARZ film center which has the foreign and art flicks, and (just for you Sushi) THIS: http://www.internationalwineguild.com/index.htm

If I get in the car, I've got easy access to the mountains, museums, lots of decent golf courses, and tons of ethnic Asian and Mexican food restaurants and markets.

Denver's pretty white (and Hispanic), but otherwise the dude comparing it to a giant suburb either hasn't been here for 15-20 years or is using mega-cities like Manhattan, LA, or Chicago for comparison.
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Thanks, Jag! Denver seems like a great city. I have really only driven through it.

Just curious, is the bookstore called the Tattered Cover?
 
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Boulder was the IT town some time ago. It's over, now.
Fort Collins? Boring.
Denver has good "sections". If I had to choose, I'd live in one of those "sections".

And by the way, Taos totally sucks, don't move here and bring a Starsucks!:lol:
 
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Jagdaddy said:
Denver's pretty white (and Hispanic), but otherwise the dude comparing it to a giant suburb either hasn't been here for 15-20 years or is using mega-cities like Manhattan, LA, or Chicago for comparison.
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I've lived in Denver since 1991. If you've ever visited another city with a similar population (Chicago, SF, Seattle, San Diego, etc.) you'd see my point. Aurora has a larger population than Denver, last I checked. And that's just 1 of the 3 trillion suburbs.
16th street is a joke, and any city with a real downtown makes Lodo look like Old Town up here.
 
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