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I guess if you really want to pinpoint it you could say it's a Mountain West city on steroids, with hints of the Southwest, the Midwest and the West Coast.
I just took a 1 week vacation in the Denver area. It feels like a combination of Midwest and Utah. It does not feel much like the West Coast.
Ha!
Denver is much more west coast than some conservative combination of Utah and the Midwest.
SLC + Minneapolis I can see. However, Minneapolis is a cultural outlier in the midwest. But literally any other midwest city? No. SLC + Portland/Seattle and you got a deal.
Denver is extremely provincial. It is definitely less so today than 10 or especially 20 years ago, but it isn't fair to compare a metro of 3 million with a rural town of 100k. Denver is by far Colorado's most cosmopolitan and happening city. But we aren't comparing Denver to Leadville and Sterling. We are comparing it to Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Seattle. And, yes, Denver has a distinct insularity or lack of real cosmopolitanism that is pretty characteristic of the Midwest. You feel in Denver a lot of what you feel in KC, which is neither good nor bad just unique to the middle of the country. Denver, like much of the Midwest, is not very diverse or international at all. What it is is a typical, large plains city that happens to be on the doorstep to one of the Western hemispheres greatest outdoor recreational opportunities. That's pretty cool, even if it isn't Seattle or San Diego (which it's really not).
"I bagged the summit in 90 minutes and it would have been faster
if wasn't for all the yoga mom's with backpack toddlers slowing up the trail.
Good thing I para-sailed down or I would never have made happy hour"
OMG, that's a horrible attitude to bring to the natural world.
I live in Seattle and can't remember the last time I saw a flannel shirt.
Everyone guy in Florida wears white suits, right?
Re-read that, they're actual saying that CO is different because people there wear flannels and have beards.
And maybe you don't see them in Seattle, but that's pretty wild to me. My wife and I frequently joke that the generalization fits. Grunge may have started the association with the look, but the weather makes a lot of sense as to why they're the unofficial outfit of the PNW as they can be worn all year round, even in summer. Of course people wear other items of clothing but I still see them all the time and in fact am wearing one right now.
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