Any transplants considering elsewhere because front range is too crowded (Denver: foreclosure, rent)

[Willy702]

I can't see the last decades growth being a reason to say it's now too crowded. Maybe from 40 years ago, but the Front Range was plenty crowded and expensive in 2007. I mean did you really think a place with 3 million people was peaceful and quaint then? If so maybe you and some others just made a bad choice. It's been a major metropolitan area for a long time, but maybe the myth of it being this place in the mountains got to you.

Besides for everyone who doesn't like growth there is someone equally excited for the additional restaurants, entertainment options and whatnot that come with more residents and more money. Plus the additional companies and job opportunities are welcomed too.

So I don't buy into this whole line of thinking. Maybe it's too expensive for you, maybe it's too big city, maybe it's just moving didn't solve some issues you had, but seriously blaming it on growth is a lousy excuse. Not that it doesn't happen a lot, to people from New York, Chicago or coastal California Denver may seem small, but that's a faulty assessment. Hopefully not too many people make that any longer and go to Montana or Idaho or wherever makes more sense.

[Mach50]

Nope love it here, I feel bad for people who just cant evolve with the times.

At what age do you think you decide to just freeze in your ways and resist change? I'm 45 and I don't seem to mind it... but everyone my age complains about Denver.

[SunGrins]

Everybody seems to congregate at the same places. I just spent a week in Colorado on vacation and it wasn't much of a vacation with the crowds. Steamboat Springs, Frisco, Breckinridge, and even Leadville were crammed with people. It seems to be feast or famine... some small towns were not crowded at all. I will be back again on the western slope later in the summer so please schedule your vacation somewhere else ������

[jenxx]

It's easy to get romantic about a place, I know... Growing up it was pretty idyllic but the reality of New England - obnoxious humidity, mosquitoes, deer ticks, taxes, the economy... If you don't get past the romanticism of a place you'll forever be disappointed by something.

I never expected the front range to boom the way it has when I made a leap of faith to leave the east coast attitudes.

Yes, there is endless beauty here, a contagious energy and still many pluses, but we seemed to have crossed the midline of progress and egregious, conveniences vs excess. It's outpacing itself and it's already over developed, particularly in the suburbs, which in my opinion are akin to purgatory.

[davebarnes]

37 years here after growing up in New England and upstate New York.
I love the Socialist Paradise of the City & County of Denver.
I want more people to move here.
Humans are assets, not liabilities.

[alloo66]

I moved here three years ago. It's been a tough transistion, but I may have turned the corner. I can't figure out why things are so expensive here. I just don't get it. All major cities in the US are becoming crowded and expensive. The quality of life is good relatively speaking. I like the increasing diversity of foods and population. Also like the fact that it's a growing city as opposed to a dying one.

[Colorado Rambler]

Originally Posted by Mach50

Nope love it here, I feel bad for people who just cant evolve with the times.

At what age do you think you decide to just freeze in your ways and resist change? I'm 45 and I don't seem to mind it... but everyone my age complains about Denver.

Well, let's see... For me it was around age 17. I still wear mini-skirts and white lipstick and I still iron my long hair on the ironing board to keep it nice and straight. I also refuse to listen to any music that came out after 1969, and I still miss the Chinook Bookstore downtown along with Michele's ice cream. I also refuse to travel between Colorado Springs and Denver unless I can catch the old train downtown at the depot where Giuseppe's used to be (is Giuseppe's still there, by any chance?). Oh yeah, and the only high school in Colorado Springs is THE Colorado Springs High School - known to you transients as "Palmer High" these days. The more I think about it, I can pinpoint the demise of Colorado Springs to when they put the Interstate through back when I was 5 years-old. Hmmm... Should I regress to age 5? Nah, the alzheimer's should take care of that.

[Mach50]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

Well, let's see... For me it was around age 17. I still wear mini-skirts and white lipstick and I still iron my long hair on the ironing board to keep it nice and straight. I also refuse to listen to any music that came out after 1969, and I still miss the Chinook Bookstore downtown along with Michele's ice cream. I also refuse to travel between Colorado Springs and Denver unless I can catch the old train downtown at the depot where Giuseppe's used to be (is Giuseppe's still there, by any chance?). Oh yeah, and the only high school in Colorado Springs is THE Colorado Springs High School - known to you transients as "Palmer High" these days. The more I think about it, I can pinpoint the demise of Colorado Springs to when they put the Interstate through back when I was 5 years-old. Hmmm... Should I regress to age 5? Nah, the alzheimer's should take care of that.

You don't have it already?

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

I love the Socialist Paradise of the City & County of Denver.
I want more people to move here.
Humans are assets, not liabilities.

I was born at Rose Hospital 4 decades ago. Left Denver for a little bit and travel extensively for work. I agree with the above 100%.

[sheerbliss]

I grew up in the Denver area. The Denver I knew was uncrowded, unpretentious and close to wilderness. Now? Trendy, crowded and overpriced. I sold my two-bedroom crackerbox in Englewood for a ridiculous amount of money in 2015 and decamped to Indianapolis. Not only was it the equivalent of getting a big pay raise, but Indianapolis is uncrowded, unpretentious and has beautiful forests within the city limits. Because of the topography, we can't have cheek-by-jowl infill here (the city would flood with too much hard surface). People think I'm nuts, but I'm happy with it. You'd have to put a gun to my head to get me to go back to Denver.