Should I move to your state? (Denver: sales, university, income)

[Falaskan]

I am thinking about someday moving there. I am a university student and was raised here in Alaska, and need a change.

We just had a beautiful day or sunshine and semi-warmth after a long and dark winter, and I started thinking about how I wished I could have that all the time. I also wanted a place that was more populated since Alaska is kind of isolated and people seem to have that kind of mentality here.

Well I noticed Colorado gets on average 300+ days of Sunshine. Warmer winters, warmer summers (but not too hot), definitely a higher population in Denver. I hear the taxes are high tho, so that is a downer. Otherwise, do you think I should make the move, would I be happier? I know I would have to through myself into the culture or something since I have no family in that area. What is the church culture like there?

[BarryK123]

WOuld you miss seeing Russia out your window?

[Katiana]

^^^LOL! Don't believe everything you hear, summer can be very hot here. How hot? Days of 90 degree temps, interrupted by a day at 89 or so. Average high for July is 89, I believe. Most every summer will have some 100 degree days. Summer is short though, roughly mid-June through August.

[Falaskan]

I would definitely not mind that at all. I might miss Russia tho. Btw, I actually work for Sarah Palin.

[Jerry Bckr]

I think you would enjoy this climate. Summers aren't short, here. They run from June 21st to September 21st like like everywhere else in the country. The way Katiana made it sound, we don't get much warm weather. I disagree, unless you live in the mountains. We have many warm days beyond the designated dates for summer. With the mountians playing with the jet stream, out weather varies quite a bit. We can be cold in the winter for a few days and then be warm for a stretch. This winter I was able to wear shorts several times every month. I grew up in Wisconsin and the winters there can be dreary and cold. Now that I've been out hear for years, I don't think I could live in an area that's not sunny. I have no intensions of moving to Seattle for that reason. She was right, in the fact our summers can get hot. Many days are in the 90's but most people don't mind, especially if they come from areas of higher humidity, as our dry air doesn't make it seem that warm.

Denver attracts people from all over the nation, and people that tend to move also tend to be extroverted, so they tend to be more outgoing than what you may find in other cities. When I lived in Milwaukee after college it seemed like it took a lot longer to make friends as people seemed to have a harder time accepting strangers into their group. Great people just not as out going.

Our tax structure is reasonable. I think we rate about in the middle of the country as far as state income taxes. I think because of your oil income, you don't have state taxes. Our sales tax rate will depend on where you shop, but figure around 6%. Some communities will be a little higher.

The church climate has everything you can imagine. I wish more people understood that Christ wants to have a personal relationship with them, but I think that's a sign of the secular times we now live in. Hopefully, that will change.

[Mike from back east]

Here's a thread on churches, we have them all here, no shortage at all.

Denver is the place you want to be, so many educational venues.

Climate is dry, not humid, very few bugs, lots of sun, year round outdoor sports and that includes the mountains.

Great museums, culture, shows, night life, hospitals, RTD transit system, foods, all the pro sports and friendly people.

Use the index of threads and use the search tool with any topic you can think of to find the wealth of data we have already written up and placed in the Colorado and Denver forums.

You're gonna love Colorado.

[Katiana]

I think you misunderstood my post, Jerry. I think the summers are hot here, just not overly long. I was trying to clarify that summers are hot here, not merely warmer (than winter, apparently). Many has been the summer day that I've looked at the high in Pittsburgh and wished I was there instead of here. In Champaign, IL, it starts getting hot in May, and the hot weather often extends through September.