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Old 01-28-2012, 09:18 PM
 
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Visited a friend for five days and decided I loved it here. Moved here 10 months later from Jersey.
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Old 01-28-2012, 09:38 PM
 
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NorthEast: Too expensive, too crowded, too humid
SouthEast: Too hot, Too humid, Hurricanes
MidWest: Too cold, Long winters, Humid summers (with tons of mosquitoes)
Pacific Northwest: Too rainy, dark & gray, very short (prefect) summers, Cascadia fault-zone
Northern Cali: "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco." - Enough said!
Southern Cali: Too expensive, Too crowded, San Andreas fault-zone

Colorado was the obvious choice :-)
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Old 01-29-2012, 11:51 AM
 
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Moved here in early 2009 from Dallas when my husband received a great job offer from an oil company in downtown Denver. My DH had always wanted to live "out west", so it was a dream come true.

March, 2011, the company announced they were closing their Denver office, and wanted us to relocate to HOUSTON. Hell no, we won't go...we LOVE Colorado. And, I grew up in Houston, and didn't want to go back there...stinky, humid, and ugly. We put the pedal to the metal on the job hunt, and three months later, he was offered an even BETTER position with another oil company here in Denver (their headquarters are here, so no worries about being relocated), so here were are, and here we plan to STAY!
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Old 01-29-2012, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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DH and I got married in 1980 in suburban Pittsburgh. He had just finished a post doc at the UIniversity of Illinois. His family had long vacationed in Colorado. DH wanted to look for work in CO. We packed it all into a U-haul truck and a Ford Fiesta, and after our honeymoon drove out here to job hunt. Been here ever since except for a year in NY in 1988-89.
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Old 01-30-2012, 01:23 PM
 
Location: On the corner of Grey Street
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I came out to visit some friends and never wanted to leave. I quit my job a few months after the visit and here I am!
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Old 01-31-2012, 11:21 AM
 
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Default Worst Move Ever

Was transferred to Denver from NYC. Lived downtown for a while, but tried a few other neighborhoods. The place was just boring. Quit the damn job, got a better job in NYC and moved back home. You can keep the mountains, the skiing and the place as far as I am concerned
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Old 02-01-2012, 07:11 AM
 
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I bet you were not born and raised in NYC.
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Old 02-01-2012, 10:15 AM
 
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Was transferred to Denver from NYC. Lived downtown for a while, but tried a few other neighborhoods. The place was just boring. Quit the damn job, got a better job in NYC and moved back home. You can keep the mountains, the skiing and the place as far as I am concerned

LOL...I don't know why this posting is funny, but it is...LOL. Not in Denver myself, but it seems to be a nice place to live and just be.
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Old 02-01-2012, 10:52 AM
 
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LOL...I don't know why this posting is funny, but it is...LOL. Not in Denver myself, but it seems to be a nice place to live and just be.
Heck, I grew up an hour from NYC and worked there for 3 years. I hated every minute of it. I've never been happier than in these last 9 months I've spent in Denver and wish I'd moved a lot sooner.

HOWEVER, NYC is VERY different from Denver. If you love one, I could see strongly disliking the other as just a rule of thumb. The hustle and noise of NYC is nonexistent in Denver. The nightlife is more club-oriented. There's no "cowboy" sensibility to NYC at all. The city is hopping 24 hours a day. If you don't like low-key and laid-back, I could see where Denver would be awful.

When I was in NYC one day, I remember having the horrifying realization that I would never "know" the city like I did my hometown, even if I moved there and lived there for years. It's a constantly shifting landscape, where only the major landmarks are stable. Shops and restaurants are closing and reopening left and right. I don't get that vibe in Denver at all.
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Old 02-07-2012, 11:26 AM
 
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Default Cowboy Sensibility hahahaha

Yeah I knew my post would get the old defensive "Dever love it or leave it" mentality, but I had to bust a gut when I read that comment about NYC not having cowboy sensibility. Well, duh, my friend, this is not exactly hillbilly county. We are not driving cattle up Broadway or grazing them in Central Park, although they did graze Sheep there about 100 years ago. And to the person who said I was not born in NYC, wrongo! Bor, Bred and Back again and loving it
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