[clumsysmurf]

I agree. Have been here for about 6 mos now, was hoping to have a good work / life balance (to me, that means running outdoors in open trail areas, not necessarily mountains - and not having a bad commute). I'm now working downtown and can not find any acceptable commute to a sparsely populated area. The W line to boulder is way too damn slow, I could probably ride a bicycle faster (it takes about 1:15 to go from boulder to downtown). The sprawl is larger than I expected.

I also notice it stinks pretty bad from whatever those smoke stacks are doing near Colfax & I25, and north of Denver - like some metallic smell.

In areas like North Thornton there is hydraulic fracking, so I'll pass on that, along with Arvada near Rocky Flats.

There is a lot of homelessness, but i read about 75% of those people have jobs - but can't find a place to live affordably. Rents might not be as bad as SF or Seattle but they are going up, apparently from the influx of people coming for legal weed and affordable housing shortage (luxury stuff is being built)

Oh, and avoid the 16th Street Circus. Centennial, Parker, Boulder, or Golden all look nice if you can find opportunities there - but the commutes from those (also nice to live places) are too much into downtown.

[JPKab]

Send me a private message. I'm an engineer and my company is hiring and we are nerdy to a fault. Our stack is C++, Node, React, Python, and C#(we are phasing that out).

We are in Broomfield, since Boulder got too expensive after we grew enough.

[jdwithit]

Arvada is still a decent place to live if you want to be on the north side of Denver. Otherwise, look down out to the south and/or west so you can at least be on the light rail.

I think you are maybe talking about Commerce City with the giant flaming smoke stacks? That area is indeed horrible.

Boulder is not part of Denver. It's its own city.

If you want someplace cool and good to live (though you will want to secure a 4-5 day a week remote job first, because driving down I25 to Denver will make you want to die. Ask me anything), may I recommend Fort Collins? :)

[kornish]

As far as commute: the express Flatiron Flyer (FF2) makes getting from Denver to Boulder about 35min or so.

[starwind0]

I owned in Broomfield. It's the burbs. It .. well not for a 20 something single dude. Otherwise very nice.