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Denver thought to be a well rounded and on the rise city. One of it's drawbacks (to some) is the winter weather. Where is similar to Denver, but with milder/warmer winters?
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Denver thought to be a well rounded and on the rise city. One of it's drawbacks (to some) is the winter weather. Where is similar to Denver, but with milder/warmer winters?
Possibly Atlanta? I would suggest Phoenix here, but I'm sure most posters would disagree with me for multiple reasons
As a Texan who lived in Denver for 3 years recently, I don't know if I would consider the winters there to be especially harsh, certainly not a deal breaker. Yes, there are snaps of several days/a week where temps are in the single digits or low teens, but there are plenty of mild days in winter as well.
Possibly Atlanta? I would suggest Phoenix here, but I'm sure most posters would disagree with me for multiple reasons
Um yes. I’ll be one of those posters. The question was which cities are similar to Denver. You hate Denver (although i haven’t figured out why except that it was cold one day while you were here) and you like Phoenix. Phoenix is not at all like Denver. Much more suburban. Phoenix reminds me of Vegas, and not just because they’re both uncomfortably hot.
San Diego is the city that most reminds me of Denver when I go there because of the distinct neighborhoods. Gas Lamp and LoDo are close to replicas. It’s beach culture vs mountain culture and the cities certainly have their differences, but if I had to pick one similar sized city that’s probably it.
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Hard to say because Denver is the only real major city in the mountain west region (SLC getting there but not quite). It doesn't have a lot in common with SLC or Phoenix which I suppose are its closest peer cities. Some seem to compare it with Kansas City, haven't been so not sure about that but I could possibly see areas like LoDo comparable to other industrial period brick/warehouse areas of other Midwestern cities. Sometimes I think Denver might have some similar DNA to the REI/outdoor recreation culture found in Northwestern cities like Seattle, even though the cities themselves have little else in common.
Denver feels like an all American city with a hodge podge of influences from many other parts of the US. If you're looking for a warmer climate, one must look to the sun belt. Denver metro definitely has suburban areas that look like the Sunbelt, particularly the Denver Tech Center and I-25 corridor south of the city. So in that case I guess I'd say either Dallas or Phoenix, even though neither city has a downtown core that would be anything similar to Denver's. Denver is Denver really, you won't find a warmer replica of it anywhere else.
As a Texan who lived in Denver for 3 years recently, I don't know if I would consider the winters there to be especially harsh, certainly not a deal breaker. Yes, there are snaps of several days/a week where temps are in the single digits or low teens, but there are plenty of mild days in winter as well.
^^This! I'm glad to see even people from warmer climates think that. Compared to the winters in the Midwest, where we came here from, or even Pittsburgh, where I grew up, Denver's winter is pretty mild. Weeks of warm (50s, sometimes even 60s) sunny weather between the snowstorms.
^^This! I'm glad to see even people from warmer climates think that. Compared to the winters in the Midwest, where we came here from, or even Pittsburgh, where I grew up, Denver's winter is pretty mild. Weeks of warm (50s, sometimes even 60s) sunny weather between the snowstorms.
The low humidity works wonders in winter and summer. There are days in Louisiana when its much colder.
I would maybe say Seattle. It's still cold but far less snow, both are extremely outdoorsy, very liberal, legal weed, hot economies, expensive, young population, etc.
Denver thought to be a well rounded and on the rise city. One of it's drawbacks (to some) is the winter weather. Where is similar to Denver, but with milder/warmer winters?
Boise and Albuquerque could be considered smaller versions of Denver.
From a city feel standpoint Albuquerque and Denver do not share much in common outside of geography. Boise is more similar, but certainly not a warmer locale.
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