Minneapolis vs Denver
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- jevad0
"I'm looking for a more urban lifestyle with lots of art, design, music, etc"
You obviously aren't looking very hard if you can't find that here in Denver!
- JackRyan0
I got stabbed in the hand walking home from a downtown bar, it doesn't get more urban than that.
- kld0
denver is a cow town, that said frozen fish isn't s great either
- play0
If you are more interested in a great art and design scene than beautiful mountains, Minneapolis arguably takes that cake. It's pretty well saturated with great design firms, ad agencies, and TargetĀ®. Great fine art too. Winter can be harsh, but that is when most of the great work is produced! Send your book around town, let yourself be known and you shant have a problem finding a good job here.
Yep, pretty much what everyone else said.
- designisfine0
Just so you know...
I'm in Mpls now and it's fuckin' radical
- Llyod0
denver is smaller than it looks. and it looks pretty damn small.
- megE0
- JackRyan0
Yeah, how are you guys doing? I haven't heard from you in forever.
- jevad0
I will see your move to Mpls, and raise you Hong Kong!
- IAmMintCondition0
I was thinking the other day that Minneapolis really is pretty fortunate.
I mean...http://www.walkerart.org...
C'mon!- it's really too bad we lost tyro3 though, it had potentiala_iver
- lvl_130
i whole-heartedly concur. minneapolis is rad. especially now that the weather is fantastic. went for a bike ride down the greenway, then walked around the lakes and got some ice cream.
plus, i don't have to sell a body part every month to be able to afford rent.
- seed0
Does anyone know - are there plenty of public accessible places to go fishing near Mnpls?
- jaylarson0
yes
- MikeDubs0
Ugh I wish I could go to Hong Kong. Denver is starting to get to me.
- peddy28isgreat0
MPLS is sorely underrated. But just enough to keep it tolerable. If the weather weren't so shitty for 8 months of the year it'd be the Portland of the Midwest.
- big-papes0
This has been pretty well established, but I thought i would chime in as well. Basically MPLS is amazing! granted I have not lived any place else for a long period of time, but I have visited a good deal of the major cities in the US, and still love home the best.
Yes the winters are a bit cold, but you'll never have more great friends all in one place.
- designbot0
Wow this thread is old...aw well.
I can contribute much to this thread as I moved from Minneapolis to Colorado about a year and a half ago. I Don't live in Denver (about 40 minutes South), but still.
Overall Minneapolis is a great city. Lots of stuff to do and big enough to be "cool". Design-wise Minneapolis is really quite good. Lots of small to mid sized agencies along with other more corporatey places headquartered there like Target/Best Buy. The great thing about downtown Minneapolis is despite the Russian like winters, you are able to get almost anywhere within downtown through the sky-ways. So you if you live and work in downtown, the winters can be bearable.
The kicker is the weather for sure though, this is without question the worst part about Minneapolis and the entire state of Minnesota. The average winter temp is between 6-16F degrees (depending on if your north or south) And it's not just the freezing cold, but the days upon days you can go without seeing the sun shine. As a direct result of the temps and lack of sunshine you will basically see snow stick around for the entire winter season. If you can get past this, you're good.
The weather is certainly the reason my wife and I moved from Minneapolis. I guess in the end, it depends on what your into to...and what you can tolerate weather-wise. I know there's people who love Seattle for example, but for me personally I could never handle that much rain.
Colorado is hands-down the best weather in the country IF you like getting all 4 seasons (again, this is pretty subjective though). Winter, Fall, Spring, Summer...and 300 days of sunshine a year. The snow falls in abundance in the winter, but then melts within a few days (except in the mountains, of course). From what I have experienced in Denver specifically it is a great city, but it is pretty huge and really spread out, so it takes a bit more to discover the better parts of the city. Once you discover these "better parts" though, you see there's lots of good stuff happening in Denver. Cost-wise it's about 15% cheaper to live in Denver than Minneapolis....but you will probably find Minneapolis jobs pay about 15% more :)
This thread is so old, wonder if you've already moved to one or the other....post a follow up if this is the case! Would love to hear your own experience.