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Originally Posted by Sam Hill
Denver's population boom and skyrocketing housing costs began long before marijuana was legalized. The census data I've seen doesn't show that the pace of Denver's population growth changed at all after legalization. It has remained pretty steady at about 15,000 people per year since 2010.
If everyone moving to Denver was a bunch of riffraff moving there "for the pot," the unemployment rate wouldn't be 4.1%. Educated young professionals are moving to Denver for the jobs.
In my adventures around the city (I'm apartment hunting - and no I'm not moving back home for the pot) I haven't noticed an overwhelming presence of marijuana.
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This is actually not true. I'm not sure how old you are, but from about 2007 - 2011 there was this housing crisis the U.S. went through. Most everyone saw their home values fall, including mine and everyone else I know, and I lost on it when I had to sell. It wasn't until around late 2011 to 2012 that things started to pick up. Housing prices in metro Denver have had one of, if not the highest jump in decades in just the last year or two, after the legal recreational weed thing and subsequent national attention on Denver on a seemingly daily basis. To think that didn't persuade a lot of people to move here is naive at best. Prior to that, my home value was increasing much more modestly. It's great, I have $200k in equity, and would like to move to get away from stoner neighbors and grow houses, but can't afford anything - or pay for what I sell and lose some of my equity in the process. First world problem. Just saying, home prices jumped a hell of a lot after weed.