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Old 07-24-2015, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Regardless, you really seem to just want to troll the Denver section. Whatever makes you feel better about not living here full time.
Seems to happen more and more with the increased attention towards Denver doesn't it? The more "Best 15 cities..." Denver shows up, the more "Denver, SF lead the RE market in the Nth quarter" articles come up the more the trolls come out of the bushes. I can think of another one (I am looking at you GoldenZephyr) and a few others that haven't been that bad about it.

I never understood the idea of residents of one city being jealous of another city. It's a city. Your parents didn't build it, you don't own it.
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Old 07-24-2015, 11:12 AM
 
Location: lakewood
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My Grandfather used to tell a story about the first time he had flew into Denver...

He was talking to tower, and he mentioned the abnormal atmosphere - he assumed it was smoke...
asked where the source was...

The tower replied that it wasn't smoke from a fire, just standard brown cloud here in Denver... you've not been here before, have you?


This was a long time ago, sometime in the early 60s I think...
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Old 07-24-2015, 11:33 AM
 
Location: Ned CO @ 8300'
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"So much for clean mountain air"... you do realize Denver is not in the mountains right? (smh)
The air quality is MUCH better than it was when I worked downtown in 1982/83.
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Old 07-24-2015, 12:09 PM
 
Location: I roam around. Spend most my time in the West or the Northwoods.
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My apologies. I thought this was a "City Data" forum. Data would suggest factual, balanced information. I didn't realize it was only for boosters and cheerleaders.

Denver.... where the air is thin and so is the skin?

I will still enjoy your fair city this weekend, and on my many future visits. I think this is a nice city. But like any city, it has good and bad.... and i was simply asking a question. By the way.... the genesis of my question was that anytime I am here for more than a day, my asthma flares up. It was an honest question based on actual experience.

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Old 07-24-2015, 01:54 PM
 
Location: Austin
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My apologies. I thought this was a "City Data" forum. Data would suggest factual, balanced information. I didn't realize it was only for boosters and cheerleaders.
It isn't only for "boosters and cheerleaders." Air quality issues in Denver are well known, or so I thought until I read your original post. It is also common knowledge that the air quality used to be much worse. Acknowledging the improvement isn't being a sunshine pumper. It is being truthful.


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Denver.... where the air is thin and so is the skin?
Is this the famous Minnesota nice?


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I will still enjoy your fair city this weekend, and on my many future visits. I think this is a nice city. But like any city, it has good and bad.... and i was simply asking a question. By the way.... the genesis of my question was that anytime I am here for more than a day, my asthma flares up. It was an honest question based on actual experience.
Asthma can also be aggravated by low humidity. Maybe that is why you have problems in Denver compared to MN.
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Old 07-24-2015, 02:03 PM
 
Location: Berkeley Neighborhood, Denver, CO USA
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CDPHE - Colorado.gov/AirQuality - Today

Carbon Monoxide | AirTrends | Air & Radiation | EPA - lots of data
Particulate Matter | AirTrends | Air & Radiation | EPA
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Old 07-24-2015, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
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My apologies. I thought this was a "City Data" forum. Data would suggest factual, balanced information. I didn't realize it was only for boosters and cheerleaders.

Denver.... where the air is thin and so is the skin?

I will still enjoy your fair city this weekend, and on my many future visits. I think this is a nice city. But like any city, it has good and bad.... and i was simply asking a question. By the way.... the genesis of my question was that anytime I am here for more than a day, my asthma flares up. It was an honest question based on actual experience.
From what I've read, the EPA has changed the standards. So breaking the standard (of what's acceptable air quality) today is much less of an issue than breaking the standard in 1985. I recall seeing the "brown cloud" a few times in 1995 and if you were in the city, it was almost like you were wearing a pair of sunglasses when you walked outside. I haven't seen anything near that sort of poor air quality since moving back here 10 years ago. The air quality overall is much better today. I work up high and can see across the metro area basin, so can easily tell when it's smoggy. And having lived in the L.A. area in the early 90s, I know what ridiculously horrible smog looks and smells like. Even the L.A. basin has cleaned up a lot since then. Unless you're extremely sensitive to particulates, you shouldn't have a problem in Denver. But most days, the air is quite clear. And smog isn't just a "Denver problem". Any city next to high mountains will have issues, and I've seen it quite smoggy in NYC and Philly numerous times.
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Old 07-24-2015, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
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I remember in the early 90s, living in the Inland Empire in CA, the air quality would get up into the hazardous range The air would smell like bleach!
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Old 07-24-2015, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Denver and Boston
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I stopped reading the article when I read that Realty Trac was the source. Nothing that realty trac publishes is accurate. Their entire business model is based upon producing worthless click bait crunched from questionable data using flawed methodologies, then getting some lazy newspaper like the Denver Post to print it.

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Old 07-24-2015, 02:52 PM
 
Location: I roam around. Spend most my time in the West or the Northwoods.
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Asthma can also be aggravated by low humidity. Maybe that is why you have problems in Denver compared to MN.
Now we are getting somewhere. My asthma acts up mainly in Los Angeles and Denver. I rarely have issues with it in places like Dallas, Scottsdale, or Charlotte. You might have a point re: dry air, but curious that I don't have issues in Scottsdale.

Whatever the case, I don't want to make this a thread about Jack's health issues. My original post was about air quality questions and thanks to those of you who responded constructively.
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