Re:What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town
by hughdbrown on Friday June 19, 2015 @11:53PM
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Does anyone from Denver also find that the relationship is overstated? I don't know of any Denver offices for Apple, Facebook, or Amazon. The only Twitter or Google offices I am aware of are in Boulder. Boulder and Denver are connected by a single highway and the commute is bad enough to effectively separate the two tech hubs. I don't see how anyone can claim that the 1200 employees attributed to Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook (which I dispute is an accurate number for Denver) could possibly have any measurable effect on a city of 600K / metro area of 2.6 million.
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Re:What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town
by narrowrail on Saturday June 20, 2015 @12:01AM
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While I don't live on the Front Range anymore, I did for 20 years. Denver to Boulder is ~25 miles, and I use to make the commute in 25 minutes (not during rush hour). It was quite common to refer to the Denver/Boulder metro area. I know things have changed, but ~1hr commutes don't seem to me to be significant enough to be called separate.
Re:What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town
by saryant on Saturday June 20, 2015 @04:31AM
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36 is REALLY bad these days, especially with the current construction. I live in Boulder and when I was recently looking at jobs I made that drive to see if I could deal with the commute.
Nope!