Are the mountains the reason most of us live here?

[neuro]

it is not why i moved here but it is a big part of why i stay here. qwhen where you reading the rocky mountain news? the last issue was published febuary 27 2009.

[a bag of it]

Originally Posted by Timmyy

Were you witness to those accounts? Do you have examples of those accounts?

The Denver Metro area is a great little secret, the whole front range for that matter. People think it is freezing all winter so they stay away.

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

phetaroi wrote:

Hmmmm...by what standards do you consider it mediocre?

Yeah me too. People throw out a meaningless term like mediocre and expect someone else to be able to read their mind with no information about what they are thinking about that makes it mediocre in their mind.

Originally Posted by phetaroi

Hmmmm...by what standards do you consider it mediocre?

If you take away the mountains, denver would be very boring compared to a lot of cities. For the most part, it is very spread out and difficult to navigate on foot. It seems to lack culture that other cities like boston, nyc, sf, la, chicago, seattle, etc. have. Employment opportunities are good, but not great. Housing is cheap, but not the cheapest. Without the rockies, the landscape is pretty much desert. Flat, dry, no trees, no water, just not my thing really.

[zenkonami]

Originally Posted by a bag of it

If you take away the mountains, denver would be very boring compared to a lot of cities. For the most part, it is very spread out and difficult to navigate on foot. It seems to lack culture that other cities like boston, nyc, sf, la, chicago, seattle, etc. have. Employment opportunities are good, but not great. Housing is cheap, but not the cheapest. Without the rockies, the landscape is pretty much desert. Flat, dry, no trees, no water, just not my thing really.

Frankly, I'm not even sure we'd have the water to exist on the kind of landscape you're talking about if we didn't have the mountains.

[smdensbcs]

Originally Posted by a bag of it

If you take away the mountains, denver would be very boring compared to a lot of cities.

Well ... that's true. Kind of like if you took away Marilyn Monroe's beauty and sex appeal, she'd be very boring compared to other movie stars. Or if you took away Joe Montana's quarterback skills, he'd be very boring compared to other athletes.

The Rocky Mountains ARE Denver's scenic backdrop. There are there. Denver is not the worlds greatest city, with the most culture, the highest population. It is not London, Beijing, Barcelona, Rio, Boston, or Paris. It is Denver. It has a stock show. It has a new museum. It has some nice parks and things do do. It had a naked guy wearing a barrel in snowstorms at Bronco games, until he died. The mountains loom nearby. Many of us can appreciate it for what is is, and even for what it is not.

[Foreverking]

Originally Posted by smdensbcs

Well ... that's true. Kind of like if you took away Marilyn Monroe's beauty and sex appeal, she'd be very boring compared to other movie stars. Or if you took away Joe Montana's quarterback skills, he'd be very boring compared to other athletes.

The Rocky Mountains ARE Denver's scenic backdrop. There are there. Denver is not the worlds greatest city, with the most culture, the highest population. It is not London, Beijing, Barcelona, Rio, Boston, or Paris. It is Denver. It has a stock show. It has a new museum. It has some nice parks and things do do. It had a naked guy wearing a barrel in snowstorms at Bronco games, until he died. The mountains loom nearby. Many of us can appreciate it for what is is, and even for what it is not.

THE NAKED BARREL MAN DIED?

[DOUBLE H]

Originally Posted by Foreverking

THE NAKED BARREL MAN DIED?

Tim McKernan passed on December 9, 2009. In the 2009 season he wasn't able to make it to the last several games. He passed away at age 69 from respiratory failure.

I knew him for many, many years. Tim was a long time airplane mechanic at United Airlines. He had had health issues from years before. Around July of 2003 he was fishing with friends at Blue Mesa Reservoir where he had to be airlifted to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction.

He was critical for a time and spent weeks at St. Mary's due to a stomach aneurysm. He was as appreciative as one could be with all the cards, balloons, flowers that were sent to him while he was in the hospital. His was an extreme close call. And those cards and letters were from all over the country and some foreign countries as well. I miss him.

[Foreverking]

I jumped off the Bronco fan wagon around 2008 if favor of collage football, most memorable image, other than #7 for the past 25 year was the barrel man. There should be copy cat naked barrel people

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by a bag of it

If you take away the mountains, denver would be very boring compared to a lot of cities. For the most part, it is very spread out and difficult to navigate on foot. It seems to lack culture that other cities like boston, nyc, sf, la, chicago, seattle, etc. have. Employment opportunities are good, but not great. Housing is cheap, but not the cheapest. Without the rockies, the landscape is pretty much desert. Flat, dry, no trees, no water, just not my thing really.

Population:
Greater Boston = 7.6 million
Greater New York = 22.2 million
Greater San Francisco = 7.1 million
Greater LA = 12.8 million
Greater Chicago = 9.8 million
Greater Seattle = 3.4 million

Greater Denver = 2.5 million

Considering that Denver is, by far, the smallest of the cities you mention, why would it have the "culture" of the other cities?

[Melanzana92]

Denver's pretty much 3+ million...

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by TonyVaz1009

Denver's pretty much 3+ million...

Yes, if you want to include Boulder. Just depends on how you want to put population data together.

But that doesn't negate my point. Denver is simply not what these other, mostly much larger or more significantly located cities are.