Newcomers to Denver from CA: are you finding the Colo winter depressing? (Evergreen: how much, home)

[DougStark]

I mainly ask this to get a feel for how much the bla brown, cold, and sometimes snowy wintet are affecting your mood vs. your previous temperate, greener climate. Personally, my mood takes a dive in northern winters

[Quietude]

Having lived in California for most of my life, and then in the Northeast for 6 years, I don't see how anyone can find Denver winters depressing.

[Thoreau424]

If you open your eyes, you can't miss the dry and dead landscape around here. It's not so much brown as faded greens and greys. It's almost like nature recoiling as a shriek of sorts. Yeah, I miss the greens, though I'm not from CA. A person could be from many states, especially coastal, and be taken back.

[Count David]

I'm from CA and am enlightened by the winters here.

It's the summers that kill me. They give me a weird/draining feeling.

[StealthRabbit]

I frequent Colorado during the winter to get a glimpse of sun and stars. Both are elusive in the “Evergreen State”... 200+ days of drizzle / yr makes things green (moss, mold, sidewalks, roofs)

Plenty of CA people move here (PNW) and flee about March, when they have not seen the sun for 5 months. Steady stream of U-hauls heading South. Come give it a try. Long nights, dark by 4pm. AK will also work for you, very green in Juneau.

My 30 yrs in Brown Colorado suffice for my tastes. Some places are better to visit than to live... nearly EVERY place...

[bluescreen73]

If you think Denver experiences a northern winter then you've never experienced a northern winter. Spend a couple Januarys in the Twin Cities and get back to me.

[alloo66]

Originally Posted by DougStark

I mainly ask this to get a feel for how much the bla brown, cold, and sometimes snowy wintet are affecting your mood vs. your previous temperate, greener climate. Personally, my mood takes a dive in northern winters

Interesting question as California gets snow, has deserts, brown foothills without trees, redwood forests, high peaks...etc. California is even as north and south as Colorado. California gets fog too.

[Beanerdawg]

Not at all.

[DougStark]

^^^^ Most of the population centers are in the mild climate zones of CA though, where palms grow and flowers bloom year round.

By the way, I spent my first 30 years in "northern climates", Wis then Chicagoland, and I never liked it. While Denver isn't as winter harsh as those two, it's not a "mild"winter, otherwise you'd have palm trees growing here ��

In any case, I like hearing people's opinions, esp. of those from Cal, because there are so many former CA folk here now and they've left the (arguably) best climate in the nation. I'm only visiting Denver from home (Phx) to see family for the holidays.

[cowboyxjon]

I smiled when I read this because I grew up in a part of Pennsylvania that is notoriously cloudy during winter. A typical winter day is gloomy and gray. In fact, I was just there for the holidays and was surprised to see a bit of sun on Christmas. Compared to that, I love winter in Denver, as it’s a lot sunnier. I don’t mind the dry/brown landscape as much.