Could Denver, Colorado be the best city in the United States?
Well, where else can you find…
- 25 days of sun a month (or 300 days of sun a year) (or more sun than San Diego or Miami)
- The highest percentage of high school and college graduates in the country
- Legalized marijuana
- A population that is 52% white, 32% Hispanic, 10% black and two of the last four mayors have been African American
- The skinniest city (in the skinniest state) in the country
- State recognized civil unions
- The biggest urban park system in the United States (205 parks, dudes)
- 650 miles of paved bike trails (Distance between Denver and Vegas? 753 miles)
- One of the first three states in the US to allow women to vote
- 25 ski resorts within 100 miles of the city
- The second largest performing arts center in the United States
- 200 visible mountain peaks, 32 of which are over 13,000 feet
- A self imposed 10th of a cent sales tax which raises $36 million dollars a year, making Denver the largest art collecting municipality in the country
- The only city in the US to say, “Thanks, but no thanks” to the Olympics
- The same amount of precipitation as Los Angeles
- Seven sports teams
- Average high temperature in February? 49
- More beer brewed daily (80 varieties) than in any other city in the US + extra thin air to get you drunker – faster
Want more Denver love? Buy the book based off of this article.
The most depressing city ever, all the facts listed are related to having fun and smoke weed. There is nothing to do if you are a serious student. So glad to be living in Boston now!
What this article neglects to say is that the average job here pays about $10-$11 an hour and that renting, in a decent neighborhood, will cost you over a $1000 a month. Housing prices are going up so the working poor can’t afford them.
So how does Denver keep showing up on these ‘best places to live’ lists?
Denver sucks. Nothing to do but drink or smoke weed, yippie. Bars last call at 1:15, pigs everywhere, roads are torn up, you might get shot through some random act of violence from some entitled child who is mad that day and dark and creepy so all the rapist can easily strike.
Fairly certain Ryan was being ironic with several with of those, and where have you lived if you had not in denver all your life?;
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