Comment by s17n

6 days ago

Are there people who have been avoiding Denver because the rent is too high? I think of Denver as somewhere you go if you're sick of the cost of living on the coast.

> I think of Denver as somewhere you go if you're sick of the cost of living on the coast.

Denver hasn't been that place for more than a few decades. Heck, the whole rocky mountain region has never ever been a place for cheap housing. Western housing prices are high historically for reasons related to desirability. They never were as cheap as the midwest or deep south.

  • Median price per sq ft in Denver is $377 according to Google. That's still on the order of half the cost in Seattle of SF.

    • Ya, but also still way above average ($220/sqf). If you ever moved to Denver or anywhere our west for cheap housing, you didn’t do your homework.