I currently live in Denver. It’s a fanatic tech hub and growing very quickly. Many top companies have sites here (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Uber, etc). The cost of living is good, but slowly getting pricier as more people move here and as the above mentioned companies grow their presence. To give a direct baseline, you can get a nice two bedroom apartment for 2-2.5k/month. Denver is very much a young processionals city and you’ll have no problem making friends. If you enjoy the outdoors, the mountains close for summer hiking and winter skiing. If you want to talk more, send me a message!
Ive heard it’s hard to make friends there because people are usually flaky and into their own things. How big are the offices?
I honestly have never experienced that. I have friends who’ve come from all over the country and have great friend groups. So many meetup groups too to help facilitate that as well. I don’t work in any of the offices or at those companies, so I don’t want to giving false information. But, I’ve heard they’re sizable and I always hear in the news they’re continuing to expand and build/buy new office space
The google office is in boulder, and it’s about 600. Amazon has offices in boulder and Denver. The boulder one is 60 people with capacity for 120. Denver is larger, a few hundred, and it’s in the wework space. Uber is Uber ATG in Louisville, 120 headcount office. Facebook is in Denver, and it’s only a data center operations office. I’m not sure how big the staff is. Twitter is in boulder, about 250 headcount.
Austin is also a good option.
Would you consider Raleigh, NC? Sounds like a good option too?
Too close to the Bible Belt. I am not white.
Don't see the correlation between being ”not white”(whatever it means) and being ”too close”(not even in) Bible belt. Raleigh seems the very educated and progressive place (compared to many in the country )just IMO
Denver has pretty amazing weather, maybe not as good as Bay Area but pretty close. Livability is high but you will drive a lot. The food scene is coming into its own, the beer and weed are both great. Tech is pretty prevalent and growing consistently as SV firms try to find cheaper talent. The downsides are going to be in infrastructure, public transit is OK and traffic gets worse by the day.
I moved to Denver 3 years ago, from Dallas. I moved bc of awesome mtn biking, river activities, skiing. Besides that, meh. The city is a bit like Austin - but I'm not really that impressed with the people for the things I personally value. The city is artsy, funky, different. People are nice, more introverted than I am used to, and education is consistently an afterthought. I meet a lot of people I am underwhelmed by, intellectually. I compared data on average test scores for the Denver Metro to Dallas metro, and I was infuriated. I live next to a $30k/student/year private school. The private school's test scores are on average 15% LOWER than the upper-middle class Dallas public schools. The public are worse. I feel like everyone is either non-aggressive, comfortable at their level, or toke ditch weed toooo much. Before I moved, several prior-Denver residents told me "you'll be a big fish in that small pond of underachievers". But I also moved away from Dallas, due to it's materialism. Career opportunities are good until senior leadership, then it seems sparse - unless you want to work for media companies. There are companies moving here, but they're generally auxillary type offices/roles. Boulder is definitely the place to go for SWE growth.
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And Russians.
Gummies?