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As someone who has lived in Denver and NYC. I'll take NYC over Denver any day of the week. Denver is the least diverse city I've ever lived in.

There's like 4 different types of people, they all dress the same and have identical interests. It's as if Denver has a mandated uniform. There's 4 different types of restaurants that are all variations of a cocktail bar, dive bar or brewery.

The only plus is air quality and access to the mountains. However you have to drive through NYC levels of traffic to get to them. I could fly from NYC to Aspen faster than I could drive there from Denver.

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Other things may matter more than the diversity of a big city: being close to family or friends, cost of life, less traffic, simpler life.

To me, this weighed much more I moved from a big-ish city to a much smaller one. And I can always visit the old place for fancy restaurants or big events.

Okay? You aren’t required to like any particular city, but your dislike of it doesn’t mean others can’t prefer it.

Okay? He's just sharing his opinion of the city in a HN comment. What's wrong with that?

As a lifelong Denver-area resident, I thank you for this post. You have made a marginal improvement to our traffic problem.

Never lived in NYC but if you consider our air quality a plus I'm concerned for your lungs. Not wrong about Denver people on a macro level, but if you can find your own group of weirdos it's a very fun city to live in (or at least, I'm greatly enjoying it). Very laissez-faire vibe here right now IMO, feels like you can do pretty much whatever you want so long as nobody's getting hurt.

I was saying Denver air quality is one of the few Pros in this comparison. Denver typically has a pretty low AQI and ranks in the top 10 cleanest air for Ozone levels. You're simply wrong. As an asthmatic who runs daily I will check the AQI before any outdoor exercise, we have great air quality on most days. Today is an exception.

I mean I’m not an asthmatic but this random .org seems to contradict you? Or do I have what you’re saying backwards?

https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/state-of-the-air-c...

https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/compare-you...

I may have misread rankings but I personally check AQIs daily and it's rare for me to have to cancel run here due to air quality but it can happen. I've only been here 2.5 years and there hasn't been so much smoke these past couple summers. Denver likely has had terrible years for air quality due to heavy wildfires and I just haven't experienced that yet.

Plus Suncor, the brown cloud, auto emissions, etc. It’s not new, talk to anyone who studies public health around here. Childhood asthma in the inverted L is and has been elevated for years

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