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Originally Posted by bunt_q
So basically, you are all having kids and moving on to a life in suburbia. You are just doing it with a Denver address, which makes everybody feel better about it. Despite the fact that Stapleton is no more dense or urban than most of what's being built in Lone Tree today. If only we had an endless supply of giant infill sites so we could all live in the suburbs without actually living in the suburbs.  Basically, Stapleton is Lone Tree for people who work downtown; it's just too far from Stapleton for the other half of the metro that is stuck working in the south suburbs/Tech Center. Maybe those Sun Belt cities that just annex everything have it right. Then nobody ever has to live in the burbs. |
Yep, and we're leaving downtown to you DINKs and SINKs to try an improve and get a couple of schools that score above a "B". Downtown, being the only option for urban living in the state, has the two big hits of affordability and educational opportunities. Less affordability should eventually lead to to better schools as the poor people are pushed out, but this is also offset by the inability of a good portion of the the upper middle class to reenter the area; ergo, the city center soldifies itself as a wealthy neighborhood.
Non-wealth urban pioneers start rethinking their priorities once the well-being of their offspring come into the equation. While I'd take a townhouse or condo for $400K in the city center, I won't do it when the local school is rated as a "C".
Stapleton might not be any better than Lone Tree (which is a wealthy semi-urban enclave by design, aka Stapleton South except with some cul-de-sacs), but it's a damn sight better than the shit that your clients are throwing up in Parker, Aurora, DougCo, Commerce City, Weld, etc.
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