Thinking of moving from NYC to Denver in 2 years. Should I do it?

[Yavin4]

What say you DU Lounge?

[El Supremo]

1. It's a move up.

If you can take the weather extremes.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. My brother lived in both places. He moved later to Atlanta, among other places, so I don't know.

Do what you feel best, after all, you can move later if it doesn't work out. Best wishes!

[bottomofthehill]

3. Aside from pot, why

Job, family, retirement, trying to stretch your dollar.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

4. Is it red? If it is, how red?

We want you to be happy but be safe also.

[hlthe2b]

5. Denver is as blue as they come and Colorado firmly blue

due to our efforts the past two decades. Yes, there are red pockets, but not Denver-Denver County nor most of the front range and ski towns.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

16. Your safe then. We all like blue places.

[jcgoldie]

24. True ... but...

We need some folks to move to red places... shouldn't take many... couple hundred or so could flip the Dakotas perhaps...

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

25. Good point.

Any volunteers?

[cinematicdiversions]

6. In two years Denver might be pricier than NY.

Just saying....

[elleng]

7. Interesting.

I've lived in both places, but to be fair, IN NY only as a child; after that, in suburb (but Dad worked in The City much longer.)

Denver's interesting (you probably know this already,) and the surrounding area is MORE interesting.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. My oldest brother used to live there.

He moved to Colorado Springs, and he was regularly sickened by the extreme right-wing attitudes that were so prevalent in that city. Yet Colorado has places like Boulder too (which may not seem as appealing after the recent shootings there).

He mostly loved it, though. He's an "outdoorsy" type who regularly snow-skied, hiked in the mountains, etc. Plus it provided tremendous relief for his hay fever.

Very dry and pretty windy out there, so your lips might be badly chapped for awhile. Your body will eventually adapt to it, though.

[magicarpet]

9. A friend of mine has bad respiratory issues. Was living in an area that had lots of fracking wells,.

... has to move out of the state because the only way she could breath was inhalers and prednisone.

Lots of out gassing of hydro carbons and fracking chemicals.

[Dr. Shepper]

10. I lived in Fort Collins

For seven years and have lived in NYC and Ithaca. I love Colorado and would move back in a heartbeat.

I prefer Fort Collins to Denver but CO to NY. So, I think YES!

[mnhtnbb]

23. I have two nephews who live in Ft Collins

One went to CSU and stayed. The other moved there after becoming an auto mechanic and recently opened his own shop.

It's paradise for outdoors: hiking, skiing, camping.

[Happyhippychick]

11. I would not. Grew up in NY and my sisters both live in Denver.

I hate it there, I think it's ugly. The mountains are pretty but Denver, no. Food sucks.

But I'm a total urban girl. My sisters think NYC is ugly. They love Denver. They think I'm nuts.

So in short, nobody but you can answer this question because it depends on what you like.

😀

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. I wasn't impressed by Denver either.

I've still never visited NYC! It's something I should do someday, after this pandemic hopefully ends.

I've tended to dislike crowded areas, so that's probably why the idea of visiting NYC never appealed to me. Yet that city has many places that I'd probably consider fascinating.

Denver had a bunch of young people driving like maniacs back when I visited it multiple times years ago.

Other than that, it seemed kind of boring to me overall.

[Tanuki]

12. Have you spent much time there, in all seasons? What exactly is

drawing you there?

[Yavin4]

19. Never been there.

They just renovated their main train station. Looks awesome.

[RockRaven]

13. Denver *claims* 300 sunny days per year. Really, it's apparently 245. But average in US is 205.

And NYC is 224. So you'd gain 3 weeks of sun per year. If it matters to you -- I find blue skies and bright sun has a salubrious effect on my mood.

[Binkie The Clown]

14. I enjoyed living in Colorado Springs for a while, but Denver was too big for my taste.

That was 40 years ago, I'm sure it's even bigger now.

[yonder]

17. Wife and I were born and raised in Denver.

We left more than 40 years ago: Way too big.

[Sanity Claws]

18. What do you enjoy doing?

How do you feel about cold weather? Are you into winter sports? Is finding work a concern?

They are two very different cities and offer different things.

[VarryOn]

20. Went to grad school in Denver and loved it there...

I have to think the cost-of-living would be less, and the tax burden would be less.

I always found the people nice.

[dixiechiken1]

21. Lived in the front range area for 20 years...

Left 10 years ago. (Circumstance, not choice.) I LOVE the Denver area. Good mass transit, always something to do, all 4 major professional sports teams, pretty much every concert with every genre of music rolls thru town, great restaurants and now, legalized marijuana. If you like outdoor activities - hiking, biking, skiing - Denver's the place to be. I grew up in the Midwest on the Mississippi River, so the absence of water was the hardest thing to get used to. (To be fair, there is water but you have to work very hard to get to it.) On the other hand, the mountains... ahhhhhh, yes, the mountains. Mountains for water - pretty good trade-off, IMO.

I'd move back in a heartbeat. Housing prices have risen well beyond my reach now, though.

[Midnightwalk]

22. It takes 6 months to get the feel of a place

At least for me. I’d always want to figure out how to be able to move back or at least change neighborhoods after 6 months to a year.

Ideally rent your place while you rent something in Denver.

We’ve visited Denver a few times and had fun. I’d like to go back but I couldn’t tell you if I’d like to move there. My wife doesn’t like the cold so that’s settled.

[electric_blue68]

26. I'm an NYC'r through and through...

I also never learned to drive so the things that I'd be attracted to which would be Red Rocks, and like Echo Lake up in the Rockies where you can see some of the Continental Divide Mountains (swoon - my cousin took me there to both on a mototcycle!) that'd I want to visit often would be out of my reach.

I'd also deeply miss being near water - usually rivers, bays, and the occasional visit to watch and listen to the waves of the ocean's edge which is so beautiful and soothing.

NYC is one of the most amazing World Cities - the mix of people, cuisines, architecture, museums, our wonderful Big Parks, and Botanical Gardens for green nature, etc. Not that I'd have the money to, but I don't think I'd ever could leave it for good.

If you do move - you can wave at the Rockies for me. 😁