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I've been to Denver three different times... I like it a lot but it doesn't feel like the coasts. You can definitely tell you're still in the Midwest...
I've lived here for almost 6 years. It's nothing like the midwest. People here don't say ope!
Snohomish County I would describe as Seattle sprawl. The population has doubled in the last 35 years and there’s all rapidly developing bedroom communities that are 30+ miles away from Seattle.
Everett is a sizeable city 30 miles north of Seattle, including the largest Boeing plant and a sizeable Navy base. Sprawl that far north, in addition to being limited by the GMA, might be related to Everett and other Snohomish employers as much as Seattle and the Eastside.
I lived about 150 miles southeast of the Twin Cities from birth until age 10. I moved to the Front Range in the early 90s, and we moved to Denver 12 years ago. I've been back to the Upper Midwest a handful of times over the years, and I can tell you from experience that Denver does not culturally feel like Minneapolis at all. Denver is significantly more influenced by Latino culture than the Twin Cities are. Nobody around here says "dontcha know," "uff da," or any of the Norwegian stuff that I'm very familiar with. My grandmother used to call me a drittsekk when I was a kid, and we had regional staples like homemade lefse (and occasionally lutefisk) at holiday meals. People here have zero clue what lutefisk is.
Never been to Denver but I've been told Salt Lake is basically a smaller version of Denver. I've seen that Boise is basically a smaller Salt Lake...
So by that measure Denver has to feel like what it is, an Interior Western city. Boise and Salt Lake don't feel like the West "Coast", but they are distinctly western...
Again if Boise is a smaller Salt Lake and Salt Lake is a smaller Denver.........................
Never been to Denver but I've been told Salt Lake is basically a smaller version of Denver. I've seen that Boise is basically a smaller Salt Lake...
So by that measure Denver has to feel like what it is, an Interior Western city. Boise and Salt Lake don't feel like the West "Coast", but they are distinctly western...
Again if Boise is a smaller Salt Lake and Salt Lake is a smaller Denver.........................
Yes, Denver is definitely a mountain west city. But, the thread is "more similar to west coast or midwest cities". The defining aspect of Denver's culture is the mountains, regardless of whether the city itself is located on the plains. That alone makes it feel much more like a western city than midwestern city. I would definitely not go as far as to say "extension of California", though, and I can see some aspects of Denver that do feel more midwestern.
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