|
| mooreds wrote:
| I've gone to this several times over the years and spoken a few
| times (I'm speaking this year, fwiw).
|
| Covid was rough (zoom fatigue among other things) but this year
| is back in person. It's an entirely community driven week of
| startup focused events, including talks and gatherings.
|
| Really looking forward to it.
| 71a54xd wrote:
| As someone from Austin Texas who has lived in California and New
| York I'll never really understand the draw of Denver.
|
| I've even spent lots of time in the mountains skiing in Colorado
| and have lots of friends currently in Boulder. I recently drove
| out to spend some extended time in Boulder and after spending a
| week or so in Denver I just flat out don't see the appeal at all.
| It's more expensive than Austin, dirty, drivers were absolutely
| horrible and basically every restaurant I went to the waiters
| were high enough to forget my order.
|
| My friends who live in Denver also seem to have started to
| complain about SF levels of car theft, petty theft and general
| degenerate crime in the past year.
| testbjjl wrote:
| Sounds like you have a solid case for not moving to Denver, at
| least until things are more to your liking. Have you ever
| attended Denver Startup Week?
| Arubis wrote:
| While it's tempting to upvote this in hopes of reducing
| crowding, I've lived in Denver a decade and it's a highly
| livable city. There's neighborhoods that are outsider-popular
| but actually miserable places to be, like the central business
| district on weekends, but it's otherwise an incredibly walkable
| small city with good nature access, a vastly improved
| restaurant scene (good luck finding anywhere open past 9pm ten
| years back), and a general pace of life that prioritizes living
| over careerism.
|
| The cost of living is certainly high; it's not a huge discount
| over most places, though still cheaper than NYC, SF, Boston.
| And the public schools aren't consistently great, so you have
| to search around.
|
| Overall, though, it's a pretty great place. I wish it were in a
| country with less terrifying politics, but that's neither
| Denver's fault nor unique worldwide.
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