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Denver certainly feels Midwestern to me. The downtown buildings and the housing styles of urban neighborhoods are very, very Midwestern looking.
The spirit of the people may not be Midwestern but the landscape and the built environment is certainly Midwestern, IMO.
I can see the built environment a little bit and even the people since there are quite a few transplants from all over. But the dry landscape of the High Plains is not a characteristic of most of the Midwest.
Denver certainly feels Midwestern to me. The downtown buildings and the housing styles of urban neighborhoods are very, very Midwestern looking.
The spirit of the people may not be midwestern but the landscape and the built environment is certainly midwestern, IMO.
I don't think of mountain views, dry weather, wildfires, high altitude, outdoorsy people, and democrat voting suburbs when I think of the midwest. Nobody says "ope!" The landscape is anything but typical midwestern, its very stereotypical western. Straight north of Denver is part of the transition between midwest and western/mountain west regions.
The brick definitely gives the urban neighborhoods a more midwestern look but how's that different than Salt Lake City?
Denver isn’t a mountain city (the mountains are what, 70 miles away?). It is a flat prairie city with prairie grass and cottonwood trees. The horizon to the west certainly doesn’t look like the Midwest though.
It’s the style of the homes, the colour of the brick and trim (beige, maroon and brown) the window sizes and placement (the huge picture window on a rancher/ bungalow /prairie style house is very Midwestern). It’s the brick mid-rise and high -rise apartment buildings downtown. When you get out of downtown the burbs are pretty indistinguishable from neighborhoods from Ohio to California. Those single, large and paneless windows sprinkled throughout the burbs aren’t found that often in the North and Southeast.
To me the aesthetic is pretty Midwestern. The people are just basic suburban American, my family members included.
I’ve never been to SLC so I can’t comment. I assume it has a lot in common with Denver but Denver’s core is probably closer to Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City.
Denver isn’t a mountain city (the mountains are what, 70 miles away?). It is a flat prairie city with prairie grass and cottonwood trees. The horizon to the west certainly doesn’t look like the Midwest though.
Your description is very vague. What’s an example of a larger city in the Midwest that looks like Denver when it comes to landscape?
The DC area is a good combination of the Northeast and South. Fort Worth is South meets West. Kansas City feels like Midwest meets West a little bit to me.
Denver isn’t a mountain city (the mountains are what, 70 miles away?). It is a flat prairie city with prairie grass and cottonwood trees. The horizon to the west certainly doesn’t look like the Midwest though.
It’s the style of the homes, the colour of the brick and trim (beige, maroon and brown) the window sizes and placement (the huge picture window on a rancher/ bungalow /prairie style house is very Midwestern). It’s the brick mid-rise and high -rise apartment buildings downtown. When you get out of downtown the burbs are pretty indistinguishable from neighborhoods from Ohio to California. Those single, large and paneless windows sprinkled throughout the burbs aren’t found that often in the North and Southeast.
To me the aesthetic is pretty Midwestern. The people are just basic suburban American, my family members included.
I’ve never been to SLC so I can’t comment. I assume it has a lot in common with Denver but Denver’s core is probably closer to Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City.
How many times do I have to show people how close we are to the mountains? I can be there in 30 minutes from my apartment downtown. 20mins if I speed.
So people in other cities aren't basic suburban Americans? What makes Tacoma/San Diego/San Jose residents so incredibly unique?
Homes built with mountain views and high plains desert fauna also aren't quintessential to the midwest.
Green chile is one of the most popular dishes, that's definitely not coming from Italian and Scandinavian heritage found in the midwest, the gold mines and Pikes Peak gold rush are more connected to western history, none such exists in the midwest. Hispanic culture has been here for centuries as well, thats not true for any midwestern state. The upper midwest has a much closer connection with Canada while we are much more connected to Mexico.
I see a connection to the western/northern plains but not the heart of the midwest like Cleveland or Detroit, we're just too far away.
I've never met a Coloradan who is even remotely Midweatern. The attitude there is far from it.
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