My family is thinking about relocating for a job offer that pays a little more. They would be moving to Colorado (more specifically cherry hills) is this place any good? Its kind of a pain in the *** because I would like to stay here one more year and graduate high school with my friends, but their asking me to go sounds like either way thats where Im headed. Will it be great or **** compared to the Oakland, SF, San Jose area.
there is a fair quanity of early cars to be had at reasonable prices, and cherry hills is a really nice area.........only drawback is lots of yuppie types.
Im in CA so I dont get either weather. On a cold day were dealing with 50* I dont think I could do 30*. And the real estate agent was saying "well its great weather, a little snow, but on average 80 degree days"
Its too crowded. Too many people moved here from Calif. over the last 15 years! Yea, it snows A LOT!! You better not move here!
I've been in Denver for about half a year now. I moved here to go to college and I love it here so far. Although I am from Kansas...which is a little easier to move away from the California. But besides the snow it is really nice here....its a sunny day nearly every day! I'm sure there are quirte a few hot rods around the area, but since I've been here I've only seen about 7 or 8. There are also some cool shops to....Denver is home to Streamline Hot Rod Parts and I think Genie Shifter as well...I'm sure there are others. But Denver is definately a cool place and I doubt you will be too dissapointed...there are a lot of nice friendly people here.
Lots of good Mexican resteraunts. Saw some cool low riders up at Red Rocks. And Bandimere dragstrip is right there at red Rocks too. I could think of worse places to live.
Welll, that's an open-ended question...first off, I'd suspect your father (family?) is already making a ****-load of money annually...Cherry Hills, in Denver is not your cheap-***ed housing area...that said, the median priced home in Denver, and suburbs approaches $300,00 right now...and yeah, we got slums, ghettos and way too many illegals here...but the whole town is growing (it's now way too big when it used to be a cow town not too long ago)...and now covers an unGody amount of land from the foothills to the eastern plains... prices are high for everything...but, it's relatively easy to get around...the weather is strange...60's one day and 10 inches of snow the next...summer's are hot, but we have four seasons...sometimes mixed up totally... Do we compare to Oakland, SF, San Jose...nope, not anyway close...besides we got tall mountains, not sal****er oceans...we do get snows...and we get several days of way below zero (15 below recently) and two years ago we got a 40 inch snowstorm that litereally paralyzed Denver and the area...if you can't do anything below 30, you ainta going to like winters here...and we do not have everything...there are no "drop shops" where you can drive your truk in and have it bagged and dropped in an afternoon and no "monster garages" and happily no Boyds... All in all, downtown Denver is a cool place to hang, and we have a decent car scene...everyone gets along...rod runs consist of all kinds of cars, including jacked up 4 wheel pick-ups...seldom any ricers tho, sorry. Don't know where "investinrust " got his info, but prices are not reasonable...and there's really not that many "old" cars left around here...worst part is Denver, and surroundings are not car towns..got way too many tree-huggers and environmentalists here... I live in Aurora, an east side suburb of Denver, commonly called Saudi Aurora for our lack of trees...and it's a 45 minute cruise from my house to the foothills of the mountains... PM me if you'd like more questions answered... R-
I take it running an open hood roadster wouldnt be the best idea? Or maybe Id just have to run some updraft carbs and put bedliner as an interior...
Guess that depends on when you drive it...it rains here...and hails...and sleets... You'd actually use bedliner for an interior??? R-
I've lived in Chicago-that's cold and snowy(lot's of people)(big slums) I've lived in Seattle-that's rainy (bad traffic) Denver-sunny all the time.Expensive?I don't think so.Try home values in CA or Seattle. (I would eat lunch in the worst part of town anyday-or night) I belong to the Denver Roadster club,you can drive your roadster all the time here.380 days of sunshine a year.Really it's around 300
hmmmm, sounds like you're in high-school??? well, that would be cool, maybe you and I could meet up (I'm 14)... Cherry Hills, as far as I've been informed, is a damn nice neighborhood to move to... Yeah, it snows here (we've got snow right now where I live), but, our summers can be hot... Take-care... later... Troy.
I lived in Denver for 4 years while I was in residency. I absolutely loved it. Tons of stuff to do. I spent a lot of time in the mountains while I was there. If it had not been for having family down south,I would have never moved. Doc.
House prices are really cheap compared to here. For a 3 bedroom 2 bath 2,000 sq ft house with a really small backyard and almost no garage its peaking $1,000,000. Needless to say the cost of living is a little high.
I like the Denver Art Museum. I stopped in Denver once, got off the Freeway/Highway, at the Museum, caught a parking space right in front of the doors, put a handful of quarters in the meter, set my watch and "did the museum" then got back on the freeway and got the hell out of that big ugly town that looks just like all the rest of the big ugly old American towns. Went to Co. Springs then, had lunch by the river. Saw a codger drive up to the barbershop get out and go inside for his haircut. He was driving a '34 five window Ford that just looked like his "old car". (this was about ten years ago) It was "quaint" then. I hear it's grown and been Yuppiefied since though.
Damn sean! i'll tell ya one thing you'll sure *** hell be dealing with more rust than you would in the good ol' bay!! P.S. don't forget you mittens!
A couple of things I like about Denver; It's forty miles from here. It's not in California. So, when you get here, don't Californicate Colorado.
Denver has Bandimere speedway and the Mile High Nationals. Denver has the Ski train where the rich liberal tree hugger *******s can ride up to the resorts for the weekend and spend more than my net worth sliding down slopes where they cleared all the trees so they can play. Denver has "The Rockies" baseball team. Denver also has the only McDonalds I've ever eaten at with a security guard sitting in the corner packing a 12Ga. Remington Pump. (Arvada) Denver is Los Angeles east. You'll love it.
Denver is nice. The mountains are sweet, good skiing. Also they have (I'm pretty sure it is called) Casa Bonita, the weirdist, but at the same time coolest, mexican restaurant I've ever been to.
Hey 51, quit dissing my neighborhood...it keeps out the Yuppies...and yep, there's lots of "new money" around Denver...comes into the area in kilos... R-
Sorry, incorrect. Whereas you guys have a friggin' huge salt-water ocean next door, and high humidity, we live in what basically amounts to a desert climate, with very dry air and no corrosives. To illustrate my point: I have a '56 Caddy in my garage that has sat in bare metal for over 5 years. It is just now starting to VERY LIGHTLY surface rust, and if I spent an hour going over it with a scotch-brite by hand it'd gleam again. I also have a '37 La Salle that sat here in Denver in the same spot, outside, parked on dirt, uncovered, since 1966, and it doesn't have a single rust hole anywhere. (Sorry guys, ******'s gone ) I originally grew up in New Jersey, and I have become convinced that the biggest corrosion problem vis-a-vis cars comes from humidity.
"Eh"]Sorry, incorrect. Whereas you guys have a friggin' huge salt-water ocean next door, and high humidity, we live in what basically amounts to a desert climate, with very dry air and no corrosives. To illustrate my point: I have a '56 Caddy in my garage that has sat in bare metal for over 5 years. It is just now starting to VERY LIGHTLY surface rust, and if I spent an hour going over it with a scotch-brite by hand it'd gleam again. I also have a '37 La Salle that sat here in Denver in the same spot, outside, parked on dirt, uncovered, since 1966, and it doesn't have a single rust hole anywhere. (Sorry guys, ******'s gone ) I originally grew up in New Jersey, and I have become convinced that the biggest corrosion problem vis-a-vis cars comes from humidity.[/QUOTE] I have to concur on the rust. There is very little problem with rust on cars around this area other than that caused by the **** on the roads. Denver really is quite a bit like Los Angeles east - that's a good description. There are some really good shops in the area - Masterpiece is one. Neal East has a groovy book store on Broadway that sells car books. Lots of hot rod activity up and down the front range area too. Casa Bonita is truly wierd and the food is terrible! It's a good place to take kids - but eat before you go.
for what it's worth was born and raised there been in so cal since 1958 nice to go visit would not consider moving back for anything there Ken
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