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Do you think Colorado is similar to the interior of California? Tahoe reminds me quite a bit of the Rockies and Denver seems politically similar to the West Coast, and the rural parts of Colorado are pretty similar to rural areas in interior California and eastern/central Oregon.
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No. Colorado doesn't have an answer to the Inland Empire or Palm Springs and the Rockies are in a league of their own. I can't think of anywhere in California that resembles Telluride, Silverton, or Ouray. There aren't any large cities similar enough to draw comparisons to. Denver and Boulder are somewhat like Seattle with that REI/Outdoorsman DNA, but even those cities are just too different to compare. Are there some influences in Colorado drawn from California? Perhaps, but honestly Colorado is a lot like ...Colorado.
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If one specifically loves spending time in the mountains of California, whether the Sierras or even the SoCal mountains (Big Bear/San Jacinto, etc.), as well as living in an urban area with lots to do and a lot of opportunities to meet people, but somewhere where you can get more house for your money, I think Denver, would logically be a top choice for an alternative to CA. Although the winters would be a major adjustment.
As someone who lives in LA/SoCal and loves the mountains of California, I find Denver to be on a top of my list of cities to move to for an alternative. Its even more cosmopolitan than it was even just ten years ago I think, when the "Menver" stereotype might have been a little more accurate. (I went to grad school two hours north of Denver, and went to the city a few times a year).
Both have mountains, sure. CA spans a lot of different latitudes, so the climate differs dramatically across the state. CO is relatively large, but it's not the same. It's also landlocked.
Denver is nice, but it's still fairly conservative as far as big cities go (good). It's not like CA with all the crazy hippies. Most of the state is rural. Politically, it's a swing state.
Both have mountains, sure. CA spans a lot of different latitudes, so the climate differs dramatically across the state. CO is relatively large, but it's not the same. It's also landlocked.
Denver is nice, but it's still fairly conservative as far as big cities go (good). It's not like CA with all the crazy hippies. Most of the state is rural. Politically, it's a swing state.
Theres a lot of big cities that are more conservative than Denver. (Most cities in the south and even the midwest). Boulder is more "hippie" than most places in CA. And the greater Denver-Boulder area has over half the states population.
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