Event planning, moreso services than sales is what I want to do. Any kind of company really, just looking for a good foot in the door and more experience. I don't want to work for wankers like HPEF, though.
If you could direct me in a good location to start looking, I'll do the work so you can get some billing hours.
Denver is cold. It has snow. Sometimes you can't drive in it because you're snowed in. A lot of the time, you need to shovel yourself and your car out only to come home and have to do it all over again to get back in. You have to drink less to get drunk. You drink too much, you throw up. There are a lot of hills and mountains one must drive through and over. Bad on gas going up, good on gas coming down. SUV of some sort better kind of car than a car car. Road signs send you in the proper direction unlike Salem, but there are a lot of Interstates surrounding the city. Apparantly, city life goes *dead* at the end of the work week because everyone lives in the suburbs. Cost of living, unsure of.
Denver, as you well know, is not actually in the mountains, but rather next to the mountains. I live a couple miles west of downtown and am at the very edge of the foothills. Not as much snow as you might expect, and really not as cold as you might expect, but when it snows, it really fucking snows. Over 300 days of sun a year. You need a lot fewer drinks to get drunk, but then you'll never be able to get drunk at sea level again, which is sad.
A lot of young professionals move to Denver. I was here months before I met someone at a professional event who was local. No one has ever asked me when I'm going to get married. It's very young, very independent, very outdoorsy. Cost of living isn't bad, really, and is comparable to Minneapolis and cheaper than DC. Significantly cheaper than DC. If you don't want to live in the city -- which doesn't shut down at the end of the week, because Denver is disproportionately single and disproportionately childless -- you can live in Boulder or the mountains and still have the city available for fun stuff, even if you don't have to commute there. Actually, the conference/convention/event circuit should improve significantly in Denver in the next couple years. The Convention Center is new, and the city has a plan to add a light rail from the airport to downtown and develop the Golden Triangle area between the Convention Center and the downtown pedestrian mall in the next 10 years.
And no one ever shovels because the snow never lasts that long. Though if you're going to live in the mountains you'll either need four-wheel drive or chains. :P
:)) I'm a bit warped, since I first lived in South Central LA and then in Columbia Heights, DC. So nowhere in Denver is shady to me, though you probably will want to stay away from Aurora and anything too close to the 6 West of town, since they're not as nice.
I live in the south end of Lakewood, near Hampden and Wadsworth. I believe if you go about a mile west of me, there's an area cheaper than my snobby gated community. Six lives on the border of Westminster and...whatever else is up there. The Tech Center area is nice (Englewood/Littleton), and Stapleton is up and coming, though why you'd want to live in a madeover airport is beyond me. Same thing for Lowery, except substitute madeover air force base for madeover airport. I picked Lakewood because it's sort of rural suburban, still close to town, and older, so it has more trees and greenery. Denver is technically high plains desert, so the minute you go east of town it tends to get pretty flat and brown.
But yeah, I pay $1255/month for a two bedroom/loft in a gated community with a two-car garage and three swimming pools. And I roll my eyes about this every single day until I remember that I can see the mountains from my bedroom and I live across the street from a green belt with a running trail. :P
Event planning, moreso services than sales is what I want to do. Any kind of company really, just looking for a good foot in the door and more experience. I don't want to work for wankers like HPEF, though.
If you could direct me in a good location to start looking, I'll do the work so you can get some billing hours.
Denver is cold. It has snow. Sometimes you can't drive in it because you're snowed in. A lot of the time, you need to shovel yourself and your car out only to come home and have to do it all over again to get back in. You have to drink less to get drunk. You drink too much, you throw up. There are a lot of hills and mountains one must drive through and over. Bad on gas going up, good on gas coming down. SUV of some sort better kind of car than a car car. Road signs send you in the proper direction unlike Salem, but there are a lot of Interstates surrounding the city. Apparantly, city life goes *dead* at the end of the work week because everyone lives in the suburbs. Cost of living, unsure of.
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Denver, as you well know, is not actually in the mountains, but rather next to the mountains. I live a couple miles west of downtown and am at the very edge of the foothills. Not as much snow as you might expect, and really not as cold as you might expect, but when it snows, it really fucking snows. Over 300 days of sun a year. You need a lot fewer drinks to get drunk, but then you'll never be able to get drunk at sea level again, which is sad.
A lot of young professionals move to Denver. I was here months before I met someone at a professional event who was local. No one has ever asked me when I'm going to get married. It's very young, very independent, very outdoorsy. Cost of living isn't bad, really, and is comparable to Minneapolis and cheaper than DC. Significantly cheaper than DC. If you don't want to live in the city -- which doesn't shut down at the end of the week, because Denver is disproportionately single and disproportionately childless -- you can live in Boulder or the mountains and still have the city available for fun stuff, even if you don't have to commute there. Actually, the conference/convention/event circuit should improve significantly in Denver in the next couple years. The Convention Center is new, and the city has a plan to add a light rail from the airport to downtown and develop the Golden Triangle area between the Convention Center and the downtown pedestrian mall in the next 10 years.
And no one ever shovels because the snow never lasts that long. Though if you're going to live in the mountains you'll either need four-wheel drive or chains. :P
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*dies all over again*
What area do you live in? Is Aurora a good area to live in? *doesn't want to live in a shady neighborhood*
*dies from how cheap cost of living is*
I think I really am going to move out to Denver now that I've seen prices of apartments.
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I live in the south end of Lakewood, near Hampden and Wadsworth. I believe if you go about a mile west of me, there's an area cheaper than my snobby gated community. Six lives on the border of Westminster and...whatever else is up there. The Tech Center area is nice (Englewood/Littleton), and Stapleton is up and coming, though why you'd want to live in a madeover airport is beyond me. Same thing for Lowery, except substitute madeover air force base for madeover airport. I picked Lakewood because it's sort of rural suburban, still close to town, and older, so it has more trees and greenery. Denver is technically high plains desert, so the minute you go east of town it tends to get pretty flat and brown.
But yeah, I pay $1255/month for a two bedroom/loft in a gated community with a two-car garage and three swimming pools. And I roll my eyes about this every single day until I remember that I can see the mountains from my bedroom and I live across the street from a green belt with a running trail. :P
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