Found on the msnbc website..top five for friendliest city (Denver: sales, real estate)

[goldenmom]

Denver, Colorado: When your first building is a saloon, you know you’re a friendly town

“Denver has the easygoing and friendly nature indicative of the Midwest. Various cocktail parties sport the ‘Colorado casual’ look, which is everything from sequins and silk to jeans and cowboy boots or stiletto heels.” — Patti Johnson, Denver real estate broker

Did you know?

Downtown in the Mile High City is one big, car-free “pedestrian mall” lined with shops, bars and restaurants where locals and tourists alike hang out. There’s even a free shuttle bus that runs along the main street.


Denver is one of only two cities in America with eight professional sports teams.


The first permanent structure in Denver was a saloon. Talk about hospitality.


A cultural melting pot, Denver hosts the country’s largest Cinco de Mayo festival, the Longs Peak Scottish Festival, the National Gay Rodeo Finals, PrideFest, and it has the Black American West Museum in the historically rich African-American Five Points neighborhood. Its population is 40 percent Hispanic and 10 percent African-American.


The city also boasts comprehensive accessibility services like wheelchair-friendly trails and accommodations and transportation services for the physically impaired.


Denver will host the Democratic National Convention this August. For the convention, Bikes Belong will supply the city with 1,000 bicycles to be used in a system similar to that in Paris (credit card access; rates are lowest for short jaunts around the city). Seventy will be left behind as a legacy that Denver plans to grow into a city-wide public
transportation system of several hundred bikes.


The median single-family home sales price is $223,500.

[Sockeye]

Top 5 lists are all the rave of greedy developers and their ilk. In fact, I'll bet that's what they assign their underlings to research in their quest for more places to "improve". I especially like how residential RE developers complete their new doings with the erection of an oversized U.S. flag, as if to celebrate a new conquest on the frontier.
Gaddamned media whores...

[sav858]

Originally Posted by goldenmom

Denver is one of only two cities in America with eight professional sports teams.

okay I don't know much about Denver but what professional sports teams are there besides the Broncos, Rockies, Nuggets, and Avalanche?

[tfox]

Originally Posted by sav858

okay I don't know much about Denver but what professional sports teams are there besides the Broncos, Rockies, Nuggets, and Avalanche?

Colorado Rapids (MLS), two Lacrosse teams (Mammoth and Outlaws), and Colorado Crush (AFL). There are also minor league hockey teams in Broomfield and Loveland, plus college sports at DU and CU-Boulder.

The major "gap" we have is WNBA. We need to get a WNBA franchise and we'd be set.

[vegaspilgrim]

Originally Posted by goldenmom

``Denver has the easygoing and friendly nature indicative of the Midwest. Various cocktail parties sport the ‘Colorado casual’ look, which is everything from sequins and silk to jeans and cowboy boots or stiletto heels.” — Patti Johnson, Denver real estate broker

Denver is considered the "Midwest" now? That's news to me.

The first permanent structure in Denver was a saloon. Talk about hospitality.

Ok, and Denver hasn't changed since 1859, I presume?

Interesting claim to fame, but I just don't how the article's criteria (with the exception of wheelchair accessibility and public festivals) relate to level of friendliness.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by tfox

Colorado Rapids (MLS), two Lacrosse teams (Mammoth and Outlaws), and Colorado Crush (AFL). There are also minor league hockey teams in Broomfield and Loveland, plus college sports at DU and CU-Boulder.

The major "gap" we have is WNBA. We need to get a WNBA franchise and we'd be set.

ahh I see, I guess I should expand my definition of professional sports beyond just MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA. I always forget about Soccer and didn't even realize there were a professional LaCrosse league.

[SheridanL]

goldenmom,

I thought it was a nice article.

[goldenmom]

Thanks,SheridanL.

I thought that the posting would bring out some interesting conversations!

I have copied what she based friendliness on below. If you want to read the whole thing, it is under the "Today" section.

<<What makes a city friendly? We looked for certain standards like safety, diversity, pedestrian and bike friendliness, as well as the presence of parks and public spaces. Then we looked for something unique, like a place that always has big, fun public events or someplace with a lot of farmers markets. Most importantly, we talked to brokers to get their personal stories of friendliness. (Did you know that people in Nashville will strike up a conversation with you while waiting at a red light?) And finally, we took a look at statistics that help make a place friendly, such as enough hotel rooms to welcome visitors, enough bars to have a robust happy hour, enough tourists willing to visit and, of course, budget-friendly home prices.>>

[Katarina Witt]

Downtown in the Mile High City is one big, car-free “pedestrian mall” lined with shops, bars and restaurants where locals and tourists alike hang out. There’s even a free shuttle bus that runs along the main street.

That is describing "downtown" pretty tightly. And main street? Makes it sound like a cow town.


The author evidently likes her alcohol, LOL!

[LeftHook]

Originally Posted by vegaspilgrim

Denver is considered the "Midwest" now? That's news to me.


Ok, and Denver hasn't changed since 1859, I presume?

Interesting claim to fame, but I just don't how the article's criteria (with the exception of wheelchair accessibility and public festivals) relate to level of friendliness.

Oklahoma is considered by "Okies" as the Midwest! that doesn't make sense to me either. If I had to lean one way or the other, Oklahoma is more southern than midwestern in thought, tradition, music,and racial attitudes!