Denver Anyone?

Question

Hey! :)

I need to know some stuff about Denver,Colorado. So I heard there are mountains there ( AWESOME ). What are the stores like,night clubs, cost to live there. stuff like that. What kind of weather they have. Can anyone help me? Thx Buuuunches!!

Answer 1

Denver is actually in a bit of a valley just east of the mountains so "most" of the rough weather passes over it. It is generally very sunny and temperatures are pretty mild, average is 56 degrees in wintertime I believe. They get snow storms but within a week the temperature will have gone from 20 degree days to 60 or warmer (so its never cold for long!).
The ski resorts in the mountains west of the city (a main reason for many people visiting Denver) are between a 2 and 5 hour drive from the city, depending on which resort, Vail and Aspen are two of the most popular.

Shopping is decent, lots of big malls with all they major stores, although they still lack most of the high-end boutiques characteristic of the biggest cities. Cost of living is mid range as far as larger cities go.

Answer 2

I live in Boulder County, about 45 minutes north of Denver and I absolutely love it here. I'm originally from PA and I spent 20 years in the SF Bay Area. Colorado is by far the greatest place I've ever lived.

The club scene in downtown Denver (called LoDo) is pretty good. The cost of living can be pretty high in some areas, almost as high as the Bay Area. The only thing that is reasonable is real estate prices, and those are going up too.

Weather is normally beautiful but the last two weeks we have gotten a lot more snow than usual. We get 300+ days of sun a year. The climate is VERY dry here because we are a mile up from sea level.

Shopping is great. Check out the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Flatirons Crossing in Superior and Cherry Creek Mall in Denver.

Answer 3

It has been a long time since I was there so it may be different now. I do believe though that Denver will always be a very good place to live. Go there and I doubt if you will ever regret it. I used to go there just for the night clubs and the great music. Hope it is still that way.

Answer 4

Nope. No mountains here. You must be thinking of Wyoming.

Okay. Actually we do have pretty nice mountains just to the west. Denver is on the high plains so it is actually one of the flattest cities in America. But just 30 minutes west are our splendid mountains. The stores are like any stores. Denver is a very suburbanized city so there are plenty of big box stores like Wal-Mart and Home Depot.

The club scene here is pretty lame. There is one stretch of downtown called "Lodo" which has decent clubbing stuff--it's where the Real World was filmed. But this is really a place for families. I tell people that the most hopping part of the city on the weekends is not the clubs--its the various megachurches that line the town. This is a very good place for conservatives and religious people. I doubt that sounds very attractive to you.

I hear people complain how expensive it is to live here. But I really do believe it's probably pretty average. If you compare housing prices to both Coasts it's really very cheap. But if you are coming from the south or midwest it may be a little more expensive. Average housing price in the area is about 250,000 dollars and rent is about 750 or higher. Other cost of living stuff is pretty average. Again, you may find cheaper in Texas or Tennessee. We have pretty low taxes around here so that's a big benefit.

The weather is really wild. In my suburb of Lakewood we've gotten about 50 inches of snow in just three weeks with more on the way later this week. That's pretty unusual, though. The average seasonal snowfall for Denver is 60-65 inches--which is still more than almost all other major metropolitan areas. It snows from early October to early May so be prepared for lots of Winter. It is also very dry around here. We don't get much total precipitation so the lawns are very brown in the winter. We have very little humidity so we don't have many trees, either. The benefit, of course, is that the temperatures stay pretty mild. Winters don't get too cold and summers don't get too toasty. We also get thunderstorms that move in around 2 or 3 in the afternoon in the summer to cool us off.

It's a pretty nice place to live. I was born and raised here and I intend on raising my family here and retiring here. It's certainly not LA or NY or Chicago or Seattle. It has a reputation for being a "dusty ol' cow town" as one local columnist calls it. That basically means that we rank very low on the hipster-meter. We are a very casual town that is very family-centered. Don't expect Denver to be a hip, urbane paradise for clubbing and such. We are very isolated geographically because there is not major town around for about 600 miles. So we all kind of bunker down and make our own fun which usually involves sports and the outdoors. We are also very health-conscious. So few people smoke and lots and lots of people don't even drink (that's because of health and religious reasons).

Here's a blurb from Yahoo Travel's review of Denver...

"These days, Denver is a welcoming and enjoyable, though conservative city. Tourism is based on getting out into the wide open spaces rather than on sightseeing in town, but somehow its isolation, a good six hundred miles from any conurbation of even vaguely similar size, gives its two-million population a refreshing friendliness; and in a city which is used to providing its own entertainment there always seems to be something going on"

That about sums it up. Good luck!

Answer 5

Leaving on a Jet Plane, Take Me Home Country Road I'm a fan of John Denver also. I recommend Keith Urban. His songs are great too.

Answer 6

I live in the colorado springs 60 miles south of Denver. The cost of living is not that bad. Its cheaper to live in a suburb of denver its cheaper. The weather can change in 5 mins. Thats what you get for living in colorado. It can be below freezing and the next min it can be sunny and warm outside. We have mild summers and winters and also be mild but this year we have had a lot of snow.

Answer 7

Denver's not actually in the mountains, about 15 miles away, but has a great view of them. Depends on what your willing to spends for living. Denver has everything you would expect a big city to have. It's cold in the winter and warm in the summer!

Answer 8

other than the current weather, denver is awesome! one thing you should go to is 16th st. mall

Answer 9

The scenery is great. Tempature in Summer is warm with no humidity. That's about all I can tell ya.

Answer 10

Current weather is ALOT of snow