Anyone else having a hard time adjusting to CO?

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by N610DL

I've brought this up many times and the point still stands - major cities don't have people move and "absorb" culture, they have people move to contribute to an evolving culture. Denver seems to be against the latter with people flooding in and that's what will inevitably prevent it from growing up.

Denver can build as many new apartment buildings as they want but a shift in culture on a city level needs to occur. Your advice shouldn't be "move on" but "thanks, tell me more on our ills to make it a better experience."

Perhaps not a more millennial statement has ever been uttered. It's also not even close to accurate. Tell New York that it needs more rodeo. Tell New Orleans that it needs more Kansas City BBQ and less emphasis on Cajun culture.

What you are saying is Denver should be less about what makes it unique and more like everywhere else.

[N610DL]

Originally Posted by Mike from back east

It's a slow newsday with the orange menace out playing golf and not twitting while sitting on his gold crapper.

Hahaha meanwhile Mattis is out working his butt off on North Korea issues

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by N610DL

Then why is it then, I want to say like 50-75% of all dates I go on off the apps the question always comes up as "So what do you do up in the mountains?" My response as of lately is the following:

1. Earlier this year, I was moving unexpectedly between jobs and didn't want to loose clients so I didn't have time to go snowboarding.

2. The weather conditions for winter sports were bad because we had a mild winter. There was no point in trying to wake up on a weekend to battle traffic to look for conditions that were on par with the weak conditions that make up much of the East Coast.

3. My job takes priority, and lately I don't have time to be exploring mountains when I need time to unwind and sleep.

4. I'm not waking up at 5am on a Saturday to do a 14er.


When I'm pretty frank (and/or slightly critical about these factors) I immediately get backlash. I don't think it's fair when I put work first and I know many who get out and explore the mountains when they have jobs they can manage around it - teaching, nursing, freelance etc.

Working for a living is not pathetic, but jumping to conclusions when not understanding my whole situation is, yes "NARROW AND PATHETIC." Go figure it out.

You could just say something along the lines of "My work keeps me too busy to go to the mountains." Darned near everybody has been in that situation and can relate. You are making this a bigger divide than it needs to be.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by N610DL

Dude, get off of it. There's no "eating alive" in a place like Denver. It's a B class city for a reason - sorry to hear you have an issue with Vegas but that's not the culture out there either. And screw camping, that's a dangerous slash dirty outdoor activity. I went to sleep away camp in Maine for a few years and had my Nalgene bottle and everything. It's something you do when you're 14, not 30.

There it is again. "People who like something I don't like are narrow, pathetic, Class B, childish, lazy, yadayadayad..."

[Pilot1]

Does N610DL = November 6-1-0 Delta Lima by any chance?

[sheerbliss]

It's not you, OP. I'm a native Coloradan living in Indiana. Before I even moved a stick of furniture, I knew more people in my neighborhood here than I did in my neighborhood in Englewood, where I'd lived for 20 years. Every Hoosier I've talked to who's been to Colorado has remarked how unfriendly the people are. I agree with them.

[pikabike]

Can't wait to see what Narrow and Pathetic's opinion of Indiana is, after that comment putting down "transplants from the Midwest in Denver."


The Sour Grapes Serenade

Narrow and Pathetic, that's what I think of youuuuuuu.
As I sit all blurry-eyed and sob into my brewwwww.
Don't want no purple majesty
Or amber fields of grain.
The only time I tried to hike I got an ankle sprain!
So take your Rocky Mountains and bikes and snowboards, tooooooo.
'Cuz I'm a global urbanite who thinks your city is poooooo.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by pikabike

There it is again. "People who like something I don't like are narrow, pathetic, Class B, childish, lazy, yadayadayad..."

But he owned a Nalgene bottle once so he clearly understands being outdoors.

[Mike from back east]

Well, we've run amok here, so I will "adjust" this thread to the closed setting. I think we're all bored with this long weekend but we need to stop picking each other's scabs. Myself, I miss the stock market when it's closed and end up in the Food forums.