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Originally Posted by seventwenty
Dunno which comment I wanna use. Take your pick:
1. Gets his and ignores everyone else.
2. Sorry for getting an education brah. Mind if I borrow your bootstraps? Mine aren't quite smug enough.
3. Future NIMBY in the making.
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Brah,
1. I am as in favor of affordable and moderately-priced housing as anyone on this board. Unfortunately its not quite as simple as waving a wand.
2. I don't even know what that means. I got an education too. Smug? hardly.
3. Nope, but nice try, brah.
I am merely stating that the author of the aforementioned article has a very simplistic and ridiculous assertion that Denver is "becoming an average city."
Who in their right mind would call Denver an average city?
The insurgence of outside real estate investors and costly condo developments, and luxury apartments in the near-Downtown neighborhoods are killing Denver. This boom needs corresponding moderately priced and affordable housing companions, but neither can be found. The Near-Downtown neighborhoods, once gritty and creative, loaded with passion to make our city an artistic and musical mecca are choking out their young, in favor of high-priced developments and suburb-employed commuters. Vibrant, resurgent and diverse neighborhoods are getting facelifts, but the underlying substance is being swept away. On the balance sheet, this is progress, but it means Denver may become another failed commuter metropolis, packed with discontented and alienated citizens.
Read this. I don't even know where to start.
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