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Originally posted by valkyrie
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A very good summation! I agree. I do think that the main N/S light rail is within a year or so away.
The Santa Fe light rail makes it possible to live in some older neighborhoods (ie Littleton) and work downtown. Housing is probably a little less expensive down there.
If I were reasonably young and working downtown, though, I gotta admit that Capitol Hill or LoDo would be great places to live (I worked on Capitol Hill for 14 years at Channel 4). I wonder if the savings in not having a car might offset the additional housing expenses?
The great news is that many of the attractions that help make the city great are within walking distance of either. Those include all of the sports venues, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (six or seven theatres/concert halls in one location), the now expanding Art Museum -- along with tons of clubs and restaurants.
You've gotta at least have friends with a car, though, because otherwise how do you get to the mountains and Colorado's other natural wonders?
We moved here 23 years ago and seemed to stick. If I were to change jobs a final time, it would have to be somewhere possible to commute "home" to Denver on weekends. That nearly happened in NYC and Chicago over the past year. Two really great cities -- but Denver is definitely home.