Denver, the place Americans most want to live (2009, taxes)

[jkanderson521]

A new PEW research study shows that in a nationwide poll Denver is the city that Americans most want to live.

You know, that optimism, sense of opportunity, and entrepreneurial spirit that CA was once the embodiment of, lives on in CO

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...-we-live_N.htm
Hopefully CO and Denver can retain those qualities over the long haul and not slide into what CA is now becoming.

[Drew303]

http://www.city-data.com/forum/denve...y-article.html

[jazzlover]

Originally Posted by jkanderson521

Hopefully CO and Denver can retain those qualities over the long haul and not slide into what CA is now becoming.

It won't--Denver and Colorado will slide down the same sorry direction of California. In fact, it already is. Every negative force that is causing California's rapid decline is present in Colorado--and growing. The fact that Denver is so "desirable" only highlights how loathsome most every American metropolitan area has become.

[jkanderson521]

Thanks, hard to post an article that hasn't already been posted. People are fast.

Jazz, that is somewhat true, but I don't think it is all dark clouds, the frontiers of technology could open up opportunities and change things in radical ways that we have never conceived of. I think we need to draw more people from the creative class, producers who build communities, wealth, and further technology. What we don't need are takers, people who take and take and take, but add very little in comparison to what they use.

My belief is that there will always be that negative element, but that many of the people other parts of the country are in the creative class. By definition, users (and abusers) always follow because they are incapable of building communities, civilized society, or anything else that requires creative thought and only survive on the largess of the producers. California is a prime example of this where just 3% of the population pay 60% of the taxes. Over time those with the desire and means will go elsewhere or stop producing to unshackle themselves from the forced patronage that corrupt governments and societies take.