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I don't enjoy weed or any drug and I am not a huge fan of mountains or outdoorsy stuff so I would go with Dallas. I can see why a lot of millennials move to Denver thou, I do get the appeal it is just not my scene.
I know this is from months ago, but I just visited Denver from Boston, with a friend from Dallas.
When I landed at the airport, I messaged my mother saying "I feel like I am in Dallas, but it's 10x uglier. Flat, 0 trees, and BROWN. It was 90 degrees and September. SO that is a lie. Denver is brown year round.
There are almost 0 trees in the metro until you approach the Rockies. Denver was scenically underwhelming, until you reached the incredibly stunning Rockies. The Denver metro looked just like Wyoming. The border of the two states near Cheyenne on 75 is how Denver looks.
I will say that downtown Denver is AMAZING. Lively, gorgeous, and methodically developed. The suburbs are awkward and boring.
Denver is really in the Great Plains (high plains) but close enough to the Rockies that they can get away with marketing it. Not to mention, it is obviously the closet big city to the Rockies.
Ugh, I hate how the airport is in the worst part of the city. Not a very good first impression and everyone seems to base the whole city off of that. Dallas is definitely a prettier city and has more trees. However, no Denver is not Brown year round. You came in Summer when it was very hot and dry (Aka why the city was brown). The Spring, beginning of Summer, and beginning of fall look a lot more green, although still not lush due to the dry climate.
Sorry to come back to this. Just wanted to add on to my comments about Denver not being brown year round. I was saying how it's green in the Spring/beginning of Summer and I was able to find a good example of what the surrounding area around Denver (Going to the Airport) looks like in June before the sun starts burning everything to a crisp.
Not to bad for a place that is essentially a high desert on the driest part of the Great Plains. Truthfully the area only gets about 3 months out of the year total where the grass on the plains don't look dead, but it's not like that year round.
For people who say the whole Denver area is brown all year have obviously never been through the actual Denver neighborhoods. Plenty of greenery and beautiful tree conopies. The suburbs haves lot less trees then the city but still have a good amount of trees. You can't base the whole city off what you see by the airport.
For people who say the whole Denver area is brown all year have obviously never been through the actual Denver neighborhoods. Plenty of greenery and beautiful tree conopies. The suburbs haves lot less trees then the city but still have a good amount of trees. You can't base the whole city off what you see by the airport.
I would have to agree as well. Dallas also gets slammed for what people see outside of DFW Airport, while the city proper has a lot of greenery and mature trees like in Denver.
I would have to agree as well. Dallas also gets slammed for what people see outside of DFW Airport, while the city proper has a lot of greenery and mature trees like in Denver.
Yeah that 183 to 35 drive was the first thing I saw when I flew into Dallas on a college visit. It was the ugliest drive I had ever done. We really need to do something about that, when I used to rent cars at the airport it negatively influenced many visitors. You wouldn't even believe North Oak Cliff, Lakewood, or even Deep Ellum are in the same city.
Yeah that 183 to 35 drive was the first thing I saw when I flew into Dallas on a college visit. It was the ugliest drive I had ever done. We really need to do something about that, when I used to rent cars at the airport it negatively influenced many visitors. You wouldn't even believe North Oak Cliff, Lakewood, or even Deep Ellum are in the same city.
It's awful until you get closer to the Medical District/Design District. I can't say the drive from Love Field is any better until you get into the heart of Oak Lawn.
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