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I am a Dallas transplant that now lives in Midtown ATL.
I LOVE it here, the trees, the scenery, the hills/mountains, the amazing walk-ability of the Midtown ATL area etc. I have a fantastic job prospect that creeped up in Denver, can you guys help me do a quick pro/con? The ATL vs. Denver thread just got trashed up with nastiness, hoping to have a better view here.
Things Denver would have to replicate for me to move;
-A very walkable urban Core such as Midtown ATL.(walkscore ranks them pretty close)
-A train system that is at least as useful to me as MARTA(esp. being in midtown, I love how it goes to the airport)
-High Rise condo's in an area where you can walk everywhere
-Quality Engineering Education (Ga Tech is here)
-4 Seasons
-True Melting pot for many reasons(food, shopping, culture etc)..Denver always felt very granola for me
Denver seemed really flat to me, outside the fact that it butted up against the mountains..is this just the Texan in me seeing parries everywhere? The other thing I love about ATL is the tree canopy that covers a lot of the city grit..I live 31 floors up and its beautiful looking East in the morning over all the trees and seeing stone mountain, Dallas doesn't have a tree canopy like that at all.
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Most cities don't have a tree canopy as great as Atlanta, and Denver doesn't even come close in that relm though it does have its tree cover (planted, not natural woodlands like Atlanta). I think Denver has more midrise than highrise residential living but there are certainly some impressive views and the sunsets over the Rockies are quite the spectacle. Denver's light rail has made progress but not quite up to par with MARTA, but its making strides in the future and within the next 4-6 years will have light rail lines going all over the metro including a line out to the airport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FasTracks For now it has a couple of lines going south of the city, would be convenient if you lived downtown and worked at the Denver Tech Center. Denver certainly has four seasons, though the weather seems to swing a lot there between warm and cold particularly in the should spring and fall seasons. I find its downtown to be highliy walkable.
Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 12-13-2011 at 10:33 AM..
High quality engineering programs are offered at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, which is not far from Denver. Soon the lightrail will get you close to the campus. The lightrail does not currently go to the airport but Skyride (public transportation/shuttle buses) are good alternatives for getting to/from the airport. Denver has four seasons and a bit of granola, a bit of a melting pot. I'm not terribly familiar with Atlanta though (as I can't tolerate the humidity), so I'm not an expert regarding the melting pot issue when comparing the two cities. I agree with what others have said regarding the lack of trees in Denver. It can be very brown here for much of the year if we do not receive a lot of rain and/or snow. But the view of the mountains in the distance is incredible. According to one of those cost of living comparison websites, Denver is about 5% more expensive than Atlanta, but housing costs are theoretically identical.
Last edited by MountainK; 12-13-2011 at 11:58 AM..
Still haven't made it to Denver just yet, but if it's along the lines of Minneapolis/San Diego as most stats suggest, then I know what to expect.
The stats you post just verify what everyone already knows - metro Atlanta is bigger than metro Denver (and its peers Minneapolis, San Diego, and Seattle), but who really cares? I'd still take the cities of Minneapolis, San Diego, Seattle, and Denver over the city of Atlanta. And yes, I've been to them all (lived in two of the five).
Denver's Downtown BLOWS downtown atlanta or midtown away! Maybe not in height, but def. in dense, walkable areas with things to do! Not even close!
Whats funny is midtown edges out downtown Denver on walkscore by a few points.
Oh-Main reason I didn't compare downtown is I don't wanna live in downtown ATL, I was thinking more downtown Denver vs. Midtown ATL
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