I moved to Denver, and it's pretty great

I've been spending the last two weeks or so getting my apartment set up, and feel like I have something resembling a home now. I've visited Denver a bunch of times over the past year, and feel pretty happy about moving out here. Currently job hunting while working remotely for my current job in Maryland, so if anyone needs a .NET WPF programmer, let me know! Love the weather out here, the sunsets, the mountains, the restaurants. I'm looking forward to getting to know the city more. I'm right next to the Arapahoe light rail station, so getting downtown is pleasantly convenient.

Any board game groups out here?

Good luck with the job hunt! Enjoy the new adventure

Welcome to Colorado!

Sean Beanland sounds like an awesome theme park.

Welcome to CO!

Oh man, it would probably be a pretty smelly theme park too D:

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So, hey, Denverites. This is a recent-enough thread targeting geographically relevant people so i'm hoping it's an acceptable thread-jacking.

We're traveling to Denver in the next few months, if everything works out. We're checking the usual places, Expedia and AirBNB, but I'm wondering if there's a known good place to stay that isn't necessarily a typical find.

For instance, I'm going to look at state park cabins that might have kitchenettes. We're not there for the city itself as much as for Colorado, so that would work.

I've contacted a typical apartment place in Evergreen if they rent weekly or for two weeks. I don't expect they will, but who knows.

Y'all have ideas?

(This trip is as much research for an eventual move as it is vacation.)

I'm reading in bed on my ipad but I'll see if I can't come up with some links in the morning. Evergreen is beautiful yet reasonably close to the city.

muraii wrote:

For instance, I'm going to look at state park cabins that might have kitchenettes. We're not there for the city itself as much as for Colorado, so that would work.
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I realize there are 2 CO threads but I wanted to reply to this. The wife and I are fond of Boulder brook, it's right outside Rocky Mtn Nat Park, kid friendly area and it has rooms with kitchenettes.

Boulder Brook looks phenomenal. We're looking at splitting time between this or something like it and one of the hostel/hotels in Denver.

We're now looking a bit farther, just for craps and giggles. Estes Park looks pretty cool, and there are some suites there that compete well (at least judging by the website) with Boulder Brook.

I'm going to try to sell you on this area hehe. Here's the Scottish/Irish festival at Estes Park. I could try to get off of work that weekend if enough Goodjers want to go up there on Saturday or Sunday. Drink single malt scotch, eat good food, listen to some tunes, watch some highlander competition.

I suppose this resurrection is a good time to update on how life has turned out here. I got a job in October that's worked out pretty well so far. Taking the light rail into downtown every day for work has allowed me to catch up on reading and save a crap load on gas. Life is good thus far.

Great to hear. Cincinnati talks about light rail but it doesn't seem worth it. Now they've approved a streetcar--I think a *single* street car--which is controversial for the cost/benefit. Albuquerque got light rail but only after I left, and primarily just to Santa Fe. Which I would love to ride.

You get into the mountains or on any of the bike paths much?

Walked around some of the parks, both in the city and some of the mountain resorts. They're really nice, but other than that I don't know if i can offer much opinion. There are a billion outdoorsy things to do in the state though, so if that's something you enjoy, you'll definitely get your fill of it here.