What do you love and hate about living in Colorado? (Denver: beach, office)

[hello-world]

Originally Posted by pittnurse70

OK, OK, I guess we just disagree on that. I thought I would present another point of view. Maybe it's my work in health care, where, as I have said, there is a diverse staff and diverse patients, even in Louisville.

My main point was about people not getting out of their own little worlds. That happens everywhere. You would think in Chicago, which is not so isolated as Denver, that people would be more traveled, but not so. My DD met people in college in that area who had never crossed the Mississippi River, less than 150 miles away. This was among college students, last year! I do think that Denverites look west more than east. I was just talking to a friend about this the other day. So many people who have taken their kids to Disneyland, Disneyworld, Mexico, etc, have never taken them to Washington DC. When I was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh that was a favorite vacation destination. And yeah, there are lots of suburbanites who are afraid of the city. That happens everywhere, too.

not meaning to harp on you, pittnurse! i think it's interesting to think about and a good exchange. and, while i do think we can find exceptions to many things, it does seem that in some places, there are idiosyncracies (not negative or bad, but cultural or regional "qualities") in the overall nature of them. somewhat as people's skin or eye color might be "different from the majority" (however the "majority" is measured, and i imagine that can be disputed, for sure), though not "worse" nor "better".

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by hello-world

not meaning to harp on you, pittnurse! i think it's interesting to think about and a good exchange. and, while i do think we can find exceptions to many things, it does seem that in some places, there are idiosyncracies (not negative or bad, but cultural or regional "qualities") in the overall nature of them. somewhat as people's skin or eye color might be "different from the majority" (however the "majority" is measured, and i imagine that can be disputed, for sure), though not "worse" nor "better".

Well, I certainly have no disagreement with that! Everyone in my family has a different eye color, different hair color, too. My hair is (was) very dark, my kids are blond and red-haired. I have been asked if they are my kids. Anyway, I get your point.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by pittnurse70

Well, I certainly have no disagreement with that! Everyone in my family has a different eye color, different hair color, too. My hair is (was) very dark, my kids are blond and red-haired. I have been asked if they are my kids. Anyway, I get your point.

When I am out with my little girls and someone asks "Oh, Are those your girls?", I respond "Probably, but I have no clinical data to prove it. I do claim them on my taxes."

I often tell my wife the one looks like the cable man, the others like the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.

[Katarina Witt]

People used to ask me/my daughter where she got her red hair. I started saying, well, we don't have a milkman, we have a mail-lady, so it must be from my husband. People also ask her if she's Irish (no, she is not).

[Karen Livi]

All,

I have lived in Denver, CO for 20 years and loved it. Recently I have begun to notice how horrible brown it is here most of the year. I grew up in NY and lived in Fl for 14 years. I just miss the green and all the trees back East. The mountains here just don't do it anymore. Anyone else in CO feel "Brown & Out"???

[ColoWeb]

I am "used to it". I have visited friends in FL; yes it is nice seeing green in the winter. I have not been in Colorado that long, so the Mountains are still a very "hot" view for me and substitute the green. I also get a big doze of “green” from hiking and camping.
This is just Colorado.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Karen Livi

All,

I have lived in Denver, CO for 20 years and loved it. Recently I have begun to notice how horrible brown it is here most of the year. I grew up in NY and lived in Fl for 14 years. I just miss the green and all the trees back East. The mountains here just don't do it anymore. Anyone else in CO feel "Brown & Out"???

I'll pass on the bugs, humidity, questionable economies, archaic infrastructure, crime, overcrowding, flatness, and dreary gray SAD inducing winters.

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[BlueWillowPlate]

heh
Denver and my town have the exact same temperature today.
OTOH
No place is perfect.
My memories of May and September snowstorms are still quite vivid.

[C_M]

Originally Posted by MorningGlory

To answer you question, I have heard there is an active KKK in Canon City and one in Indian Hills, between Morrison and Conifer. I don't know if either is true. I think there are little pockets of hate like that everywhere, but it does seem to quickly be being replaced with hatred for illegal aliens. They seem to be the scapegoat for every problem our country has right now.

I just dont get people. Severely penalize employers, and its taken care of. No need for radical patriotic anti-anyone anything.

In listening to today's "law and order & protect our borders" (For Example: Lou Dobbs & his audience, he will dress it up by inviting Jessie Jackson, etc. on to the program but the overall thrust is racist hate mongering) types it is good if you know where these groups stem from one source for the uninitiated is:

[url=http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/millennium/1123mile.shtml]Racist group dominated politics in early 1920s[/url]

That the KKK dominated CO politics in the 1930s (17,000 members in Denver alone) should make it clear that these are the parents of today's veiled racists. The KKK nationally had about 5 million members in that era. This is NOT a new phenomenon coming out of the white supremacist groups in prisons.

[esya]

I owned a house in Indian Hills and that rumor has to be dated from the 1920s when they did exist in Denver. When we bought an updated cabin in the early 70s, the deed from the 1920s still had "no blacks or persons of color" or whatever on the language. That is not legal language and not legally enforceable, but the rumor likely persists because the deed language persists. Why don't people take if off the deeds? Because they would have to pay a lawyer to refile the deed after paying a lawyer to rewrite the language (in an out of date set of HOA restrictions).