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Liberal Place: Denver, CO
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Denver is a fun and friendly city. Denver has outstanding cultural facilities and numerous attractive parks. Denver is home to many varied and colorful festivals throughout the year celebrating a wide range of ethnic cultures, gay community and many other aspects of life in the city. Denver has a fun downtown with our baseball field, a big amusement park and many brewpubs, restaurants, clubs and other nightlife. Denver has a diverse population. Denver has benefits for domestic partners of City employees and pro gay city ordinances. Denver is not without problems but is a nice place to live.

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I come from Evergreen, a small town about thirty miles West of Denver. As soon as me and my friends got cars, the "big city" drew us like moths to the flame. I agree with the other reviewer that Denver has its pluses, and it is not unfriendly to liberalism, per say. But I think that its nickname says a lot about it; Deadver is a place without much happening on the political scene. It is relativly gay friendly and is one of the best cities in the world in terms of compliance with the American's with Disabilities act (although that says more about how bad other cities are than it does how good Denver is), but there is never really anything going on politically speaking. It is not active in terms of the environment, Colorado looks to Boulder for that, and it's public transportation is terrible. The city planning is non-existant, and to say that urban sprawl is a problem is putting the matter kindly. All in all, it may be an okay place for an inactive liberal to live, but for those of us who want to actually get out there and change the world, there are better places.

I come from Evergreen, a small town about thirty miles West of Denver.  As soon as me and my friends got cars, the "big city" drew us like moths to the flame.  I agree with the other reviewer that Denver has its pluses, and it is not unfriendly to liberalism, per say.  But I think that its nickname says a lot about it;  Deadver is a place without much happening on the political scene.  It is relativly gay friendly and is one of the best cities in the world in terms of compliance with the American's with Disabilities act (although that says more about how bad other cities are than it does how good Denver is), but there is never really anything going on politically speaking.  It is not active in terms of the environment, Colorado looks to Boulder for that, and it's public transportation is terrible.  The city planning is non-existant, and to say that urban sprawl is a problem is putting the matter kindly.  All in all, it may be an okay place for an inactive liberal to live, but for those of us who want to actually get out there and change the world, there are better places.

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WRT the poster's comments on Denver's "non-existent" public transportation, we do have RTD buses, and a somewhat limited Light Rail system. A much larger Light Rail system has been proposed (with over $26 million of fed money available), but has twice been resoundingly defeated by the taxpayers. We have a libertarian on the RTD board, who has a problem with stealing other peoples' money to pay for government programs that aren't cost-effective. Most taxpayers agree. -- Ctaj

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