Q: Hey Scott, I think this question is sort of the inverse of one you answered recently, about the lady who moved from Denver to DC. (If she’s living on an 8000-acre horse farm, she has a heck of a commute!)
Anyway, I’m in the opposite situation. After five years of enduring DC winters, traffic, high cost of living, and terrorist attacks, I’m thinking of moving back to Colorado.
I lived in Denver, Boulder, Greeley, and Colorado Springs from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, working various jobs and going to grad school. I think I could find a job in my field pretty easily with some legwork.
So my question is, from your perspective, how much has Denver changed since 1992, aside from the obvious population growth and circus-tent airport? It used to be a dynamic yet casual, live-and-let-live place with fitness-mad, well-educated residents.
Colorado Springs would be completely out of the question because it’s been taken over by the religious right, and I’m not, shall we say, heterosexual. I would be moving in May or June.
So, any thoughts? Thanks!
SCOTT: Denver really has changed a lot since 1992!
I always joke that it’s the new LA because of the traffic and the 18 percent population growth over the past decade. But it’s still dynamic if not more, it’s still casual and I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that you could still find a few well-educated pals to work out with. Even straight people work out now!
I think most of the country thinks of Colorado as a conservative western red state but it’s really just the small towns and rural counties. Denver, Boulder, Pueblo and Ft. Collins are all strongly Democratic just for balance and so you won’t feel alienated. So rest assured my friend, you can still find a place in Denver to fit in and call home.
Pinky swear!